WILLIAM COLPAYS DEATH, ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK Copyright(c) 2002 by Marilyne Logan-McKay (glenmckayis@shaw.ca) http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm ******************************************************** SOURCE: BUFFALO EVENING NEWS - VOL.XXXIV - NO 145 - September 27, 1897 KILLED BY A TRAIN Employe of the Erie Killed by a Train While Trying to Save The Lives of Others (Special to the evening news) NIAGRA FALLS, Sept. 27 - William Colpays of 935 North Avenue was killed by a Wabash special train at the Niagara avenue crossing of the Erie railroad at 9:40 o'clock yesterday morning. For the past 20 years the deceased has been in the employ of the Erie Railroad Company as a switchman and flagman, and at the time of the accident was trying to save the lives of Joseph Salue and Thomas Panter of this city, who were driving across the tracks and were in imminent danger of being struck by the approaching train. Colpays had just succeeded in getting them clear of the tracks when he himself was struck by the Wabash engine and hurled to the ground. The railroad men who saw the accident say that Colpays lost his life through mistaking the Wabash train for an Erie excursion train. _____________