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JOSEPH A. CRAIG
Close to Death
[People’s Press, 19 February 1907]
Joseph A. Craig, proprietor of Uneda Laundry, and his driver, came near meeting death an awful death on Saturday. They were driving the delivery wagon across the railroad tracks at the G.T.R. Depot, when a light engine backed out from behind a train standing at the depot. The occupants of the rig did not see or hear the engine until it was right on them. Both grabbed the reins and jerked the horse up on his hind feet. The animal’s fore feet struck the tender of the engine as it went past. Spectators turned their backs expecting a horrible accident was about to happen. Mr. Craig says the electric bell, which is supposed to sound an alarm at the crossing when a train is about to pass; was not ringing.
One other day last week a farmer just escaped being caught by a Wabash express. The horses jumped when they saw the approaching train clearing the tracks in the nick of time.
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