From the Hamilton Democratic Republican
of Hamilton, NY - Thursday, August 28, 1873

   Last Sunday two young girls residing near Crumb Hill, aged eight and five years, started for Sabbath School held at the school-house near John Wibert's, and took the railroad, walking on the track down through the woods and emerging at the high railroad bridge known as the Wibert trestle. As it was Sunday and no trains in the habit of moving at that time, they had passed on the trestle within sight of their destination, and had got about two thirds of the way across, at the highest point, distance 75 feet below, when there suddenly appeared coming around the bend within 25 rods ahead of them, the morning express train from Cortland returning to Norwich under good motion.

   The frightened children had to decide in a moment of peril. Quick as two squirrels they sprang from the track over the side to the braces below where they hung to the timbers with their hands while the train halted on the trestle, and they were rescued from their dangerous situation and carried back to the opposite bank.       DeRuyterNew Era