From the DeRuyter New Era of DeRuyter, NY
Thursday, August 10, 1871

   Accident on the DeRuyter Branch - On Saturday, the 5th inst., the down train from DeRuyter to Norwich, when rounding a curve, ran over a hand car on the road, smashing it to splinters and staving up the cow-catcher some, without, however, throwing the train from the track. The car was being trundled by some half dozen men who were on it, and had barely time to escape by jumping for their lives. We wonder what business these hand-cars have on the track at the particular time when a train is known to be due? Too much care cannot be observed to prevent terrible accidents.