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Sussex Register August 26, 1869 issue

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Fatal Accident at Waterloo

Fatal Accident--A man by the name of Patrick Quinsey, the keeper of a boarding shanty near Waterloo, on the M. & E. R. R., was run over by an excursion train on the Sussex Railroad at 9 o'clock P.M., near the engine house at Waterloo on Friday Last. He had been intoxicated during the day, and wandering about in the dark attempted to cross the track just as the train was moving down the grade at that point. He was seen by the engineer but too late, the engine passed over him cutting off both legs and part of one hand. Medical attendance was promptly procured by Superintendent Case, but death ended the poor fellow's sufferings at nine o'clock the following day.