Henry Illinois - Accidents

Wilson Abrams Injured by Train

The Henry Republican, Henry Illinois

July 18, 1882

Wilson Abrams of this city, a brakeman on the Bureau Valley freight train, met with a melancholy accident yesterday morning. When pulling out from Sparland, the train being under good headway, he attempted to spring from the depot platform to the rear platform of the caboose. He grasped the railing, but his foot failed to catch and the motion of the car swung him round behind, and being a heavy man, with such momentum, that striking his leg against the platform, the bone of his left leg was broken above the knee.