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The Buffalo Courier
Wednesday, August 29, 1906


           LAKE CAPTAIN STRUCK AND
            KILLED BY FAST EXPRESS
            
           WILLIAM J. LEAVER Steps Off One Track to Avoid
            One Train Only to Get in the Way of Another
             On the Next Track.
             
           CAPTAIN WILLIAM J. LEAVER, of the steamer D. W.
         Rust, whose home is in Toledo, was struck and killed
         by a passenger train on the Buffalo, Rochester &
         Pittsburg Railroad shortly before 6 o'clock yester-
         day. He was walking across the railroad bridge over
         the Buffalo Creek, at the Buffalo Creek Railroad
         Junction, when he stepped from one track to avoid
         an approaching train, only to get in the way of
         another.
           When the train struck him he was knocked off his
         feet and fell through the bridge, landing partly
         in the water and partly on the shore of the creek.
         The train was brought to a stop and CAPT. LEAVER
         was taken from the water by the members of the crew,
         who placed him in the baggage car to rush him to a
         hospital, but he died before the train reached the
         station. Deupty (sic) Medical Examiner HOWLAND took
         charge of the case and after having the body removed
         to the Morgue, had the police notify CAPT. LEAVER's
         relatives in Toledo.
           CAPT. LEAVER was 60 years old. He had sailed on
         the lakes for many years and was well known in 
         marine circles. The steamer D. W. Rust, of which
         he was in command, is a wooden vessel of the smaller
         type and was lying at the Lehigh Valley ore docks,
         with a cargo of ore. It is thought that CAPT.
         LEAVER was on his way to the boat when the train
         struck him, and was using the tracks as a short cut.
           He was walking toward the docks on the Nickle
         Plate tracks at that point where several roads
         cross or run over the Buffalo Creek tracks. He saw
         a train coming on the Nickle Plate tracks and
         stepped onto the next track, which is used by the
         Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad. The Pitts-
         burg Express was coming along on that track in the
         same direction as the Nickle Plate train, but was
         not seen by CAPT. LEAVER as it was about half a
         car length behind the Nickle Plate train. 
         Scarcely had he stepped onto the track when the
         engine struck him.
         
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