Sheffield Independent – Wednesday 20 February 1884

Accident on the Railway near Mexbro’.

Yesterday morning, a woman named Mary Ann Harrison, about 50 years of age, and living at Swinton, was knocked down by a coal train on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway at Denaby near Mexbro’, and was seriously injured.

She had just been carried over the Don by the ferry boat, and was in the act of passing across the line to Denaby when the coal train approached unperceived by her. A goods train was advancing on the “down line,” and it is conjectured that her attention was taken up by this. The coal train was moving but slowly at the time, and one of the buffers of the engine caught her just as she was about to step upon the metals. Fortunately she was knocked clear of the line and fell upon the embankment.

With assistance she walked back to the ferry boat and was taken to the keeper’s house, the station-master in the meantime sending for Dr. Sykes, who soon attended. No bones were broken, but the woman was much bruised. She was taken home in a cab, and is progressing favourably.