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Note: LY ARGUS, IN MIDDLE TOWN NY. REPORTED THAT THEIR WAS A FATAL CRASH ON THE RAIL. THIS IS HOW IT READS:
ALBANY,JULY 20----- THE FAST TRAIN ON THE DELAWARE AND HUDSON,LEAVING ALBANY AT 4:30 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, RAN INTO AN OPEN SWITCH AT ESPERANCE AND CRASHED INTO A TRAIN OF EIGHT FREIGHT CARS. THE FIREMAN HENRY PALMER, OF ONEONTA, WAS SCALDED AND HIS LEGS WERE BROKEN. HE DIED HALF AN HOUR LATER. HIS WIFE WAS ON THE TRAIN. TRUMAN AUSTIN, THE ENGINEER, SUSTAINED TWO COMPOUND FRACTURES OF THE RIGHT LEG, BESIDES BEING SCALDED AND CUT. THE ACCIDENT WAS THE RESULT OF CARELESSNESS.
FOUND NO OTHER REPORTS OF HIM DYING, BUT DO KNOW HE DIED BEFORE 1900. FOR ANNA IS LISTED AS WIDOWED.
WHILE TRUMAN WAS ALIVE THEY LIVED IN BINGHAMTON,BROOME, NEW YORK. AFTER HE DIED ANNA AND 3 OF THE CHILDREN MOVED TO CALIFORNIA. ONLY MARK TRUMAN REMAINED IN NY FOR A TIME. MARK AND HIS WIFE INA BELLE (PERKINS) LATER MOVED TO ST. LOUIS, MO. WHERE MARK DIED UNDER QUESTIONABLE CAUSES.
Note: TRUMAN WAS A RAILROAD FIREMAN AND THEN BECAME AN ENGINEER. JULY 20,1894 IN THE MIDDLETOWN DAI
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