In 1904, Brewster Paper Reports on Freight Train Crash

A couple cases of the whooping cough, an upcoming Easter event and a story about "good spring weather" all made the front page of the Brewster Standard 109 years ago.

Other page 1 news consisted of local happenings—such as the fact that a Mahopac woman by the name of Mrs. J. S. Tredennick was spending "several days in Brooklyn with her mother, who was seriously ill"—and a story about a freight train wreck. Several cars became separated and then reunited with a crash in that incident.

"One brakeman received some slight bruises by the collision and the remainder of the train crew escaped with a shaking up," the story states.

The paper, available online via the Brewster Public Library, existed from 1869 to 1982 and covered the Brewster-Southeast area, as well as Danbury (CT), Pawling, Peekskill, Poughkeepsie, White Plains and Yonkers.