The Daily News
Fairfield
September 18, 1877
Volume 1. Number 1

On Friday evening last a telegraphic dispatch brought the startling intelligence that Will Fleming, a young man raised in our town, but who has for a year or two past been employed on the railroad, had been killed by the cars at Pleasant Plains Station. Further information was soon received confirming the report and giving the particulars as far as known of the terrible accident. It seems, as well as can be ascertained, that the young man, while the train was in motion, attempted to jump from the top of a box car to a   (---t) car loaded with ties and that just  (-can not read-)   and almost instantly he was caught by the wheels; before the train could be brought to a stand eleven cars had passed over him, cutting him completely in two. The body was brought to our town, where his relatives and friends reside for interment, and on Sunday was attended to the grave by a large concourse of sympathizing friends. His mother and other relatives have the most (-can not read-) sympathy of the whole community in their grief, and as far as human kindness can mitigate their sorrows there are none but (can not read  -choly)  pleasure in ministering to them.