Below are two news reports that appeared in papers serving the area around the EBT. These were circulated on the EBT E-mail list. I found it interesting the rather cavalier way that they reported what would have certainly been life threatening injuries back in those days and what’s with a slightly dented skull ? Sounds like a major headache to me !
Huntingdon Globe, Thursday, May 24, 1894
"Frank Galbraith, an engineer on the East Broad Top railroad, was seriously hurt on Wednesday of last week while workmen were taking the trucks from under a locomotive, which had been propped up in the shops at Rock Hill. Mr. Galbraith was one of the men working under the engine. In some unaccountable manner the props broke and the engine fell to the ground, striking Mr. Galbraith in its descent, which resulted in a fracture of a limb, the mashing of a knee joint, the spraining of an ankle, and also inflicting an ugly scalp wound. Drs. Browning and Bush bound the broken members with splints, sewed up the gash in his head, and otherwise pulled the crippled fellow together in a way to insure his speedy convalescence."
Huntingdon Journal, Friday, May 25, 1894
“Local and Personal.”
"Frank Galbraith, an engineer on the East Broad Top railroad, was seriously injured at Rockhill, on Wednesday evening of last week. He was assisting in hoisting a boiler when the jack slipped and the boiler upset, falling on him. His scalp was cut three inches long and his skull slightly dented; his leg was broken near the hip, left knee and right ankle dislocated and otherwise cut and bruised."