Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
September 3, 1887 Saturday

A misplaced switch Wednesday noon caused a heavy coal train
coming up the cut leading from the merchandise dock to run in-
to a lot of empty coal cars standing on a cut in the siding,
waiting to be run down on the dock to load coal. The emptys
were piled up in the cut in great confusion and a number bad-
ly smashed by the collision. It is said that the engineer of
the train was so enraged by the accident that he jumped down
from his cab and proceeded to put a "head" on the man whose
interference with the switch caused the smash.