Olean Democrat, June 6, 1882
The Bradford, Bordell and Kinzua Narrow Gauge Railroad is one of the best paying railroad properties in the land. During every month of the year a dividend of two percent was declared and paid, making a 24 percent return on a capital stock of $250,000. The surplus of the company at the opening of 1882 was $31,149.09.
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Bolivar Breeze, Thursday, Sept. 6, 1900 INSTANTLY KILLED ______ Thomas Lawler, a conductor on the Smethport branch of the B.B. & K. railroad met his death in a horrible manner Saturday afternoon at about 4 o'clock. Lawler had come from Smethport to Ormsby with a train of freight cars and was making a flying switch in the yards at the latter station. he was on top of a car of coal which was cut off from the rest of the train. The car started down the track towards Smethport and Lawler applied the brakes. They refused to respond and the speed of the car gradually increased. When about two miles down the track it left the rails and plunged down an embankment. Lawler stuck to his brake, and was instantly killed. He was aged 35 years, and is survived by a widow and one daughter, who live in Smethport.
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Bolivar Breeze, Oct. 6, 1898 |