Slowest Train on Record

"I saw a man run down by a locomotive once, on that awful SC&N", said a melancholy stranger. "I was on the road from Silver Creek to Oureka.  At Pickhandle one man was so upset with the slow progress that decided to get off the train and walk.  He had proceeded about two miles when the train overtook him. He was knocked down, and the train, in a leisurely sort of fashion, proceeded to run over him. The man spoke a few words and expressed the wish that the five thousand dollars accident insurance that he carried be given to his sweetheart.  But the poor girl never got the money. Before the engine got up to the man's knees, rheumatism set in, and the poor fellow died a natural death. It being an accident policy, the girl couldn't collect the money." - The Oureka Herald, May 23rd, 1903.