Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
March 5, 1887 Saturday

Negaunee - Last Sunday morning a train, consisting of engines
no. 9, 32, 54 and 53, and a-coach, no. 9 being ahead and the others
following in order as numbered, started from Marquette to plow out
the road. When the switch at the side track leading into the
Pioneer furnace at this place was reached, engine no. 32 jumped
the frog at the switch. Engine no. 9 kept the rails and with no.
32 ran nearly 1,000 feet without stopping. Engine no. 54 broke
loose at the switch and ran about 100 feet, coming to a stop when
almost across the north track, which is parallel to the one on
which the train was running. Engine no. 50 and the coach at the
switch brought up standing. The engine was but a short distance from
the rails, but the coach was swung around almost at right angles
with the track. The accident occured about 11 o'clock and in an
hour later no. 32 was again on the track. The other engines were
quite a distance from the rails and it required a good deal of work
to get them on. One of them lay in such a position that the noon
passenger could not get by on the other track. A wrecking train
from Marquette was put to work and in the afternoon the track was
again clear.

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