Coroner's Report from the Delaware County Board
of Supervisors books.
On May 26, 1922 I was called to the scene of a
railroad wreck on the Ulster and Delaware Railroad one mile east of
Grand Gorge Station. There were six workmen killed instantly.
William Lafferty, Fred Borst, Floyd Chase, Fred Louden, Ora Worth,
and Abe Johnson. The wreck was carefully investigated and on May 31,
1922 assisted by District Attorney O'Connor, held a joint inquest at
Hobart, NY at the conclusion of which I gave my decision that the
deaths of these men were accidental and occurred in the railroad
wreck referred to above, and that said wreck was caused by the
misinterpretation of the orders by the crew of one of the trains
involved, namely Extra Work Train
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