Norge-Philadelphia, Axle Meyers, blindpassasjer, ulykke 1911

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Norge-Philadelphia, Axle Meyers, blindpassasjer, ulykke 1911

Legg inn av Jens Kaasbøll » 25 feb 2018 09:35:12

Patriot, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Mandag 14 august 1911, vol 68, s 1

Legs broken, man rolls off train.
Norwegian Found in Union Station, Tells a Queer Story to Police.

Shortly after an immigrant special pulled out of the Union station for Chicago yesterday morning, Axle Meyers, a Norwegian, was found in the sheds by several of the inspectors. Now the Pennsylvania Railroad's police department is aking an effort to find out whether he was riding "blind baggage" or was a passenger on the train and fell off.
Meyers, who is in the hospital with both legs broken below the knee, says he was a passenger on the train en route to Chicago, but his story does not dovetail with facts that have been observed by the police department. He says he was a fireman on one of the company's tugboats at Philadelphia, and that he had purchased a ticket at Broad Street station for Chicago.
The police however, were able to find only twenty-five cents on his person, and the conductor on the train, said he does not have such a ticket. Meyers should have the ticket, as it would not have been lifted until the train gets west of Pittsburg. Then again, if he had been working for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, he would no doubt have had free transportation.
With these facts the police think he was riding somewhere on the trucks of one of the coaches, and that his legs were broken while en route. Upon reaching this city, it is thought that he either fell or rolled off the train, on account of the pain due to the injury.

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Re: Norge-Philadelphia, Axle Meyers, blindpassasjer, ulykke

Legg inn av gj05668 » 25 feb 2018 10:09:01

Kan ha vært han som emigrerte her: https://digitalarkivet.no/view/8/pe00000001007119

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