At 6:26 o'clcok Thursday morning, Niles Johnson, a miner who was employed at the Cleveland, was returning home from his work and was walking along the South Shore track in the eastern part of the city. The track at the point where he was walking is double. Johnson saw a switch engine approaching and stepped off the track on which the engine was coming but in doing so got on another track in which another engine was coming from the opposite direction. Before a warning could be given he was struck by that engine. His left foot was cut off and he also substained injires about his head and hands.
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