Hometown History
April 6, 2023
135 Years Ago
Hiram F. McMullen, a car inspector on the N.Y.O. & W.R.R. was run over and killed at Sidney on Tuesday. The cars were unprotected by flags, and as McMullen was in the act of crawling under to reach the other side of the track, a train in charge of conductor Allen, backed in upon the cars, catching his left hand just as he placed it upon the rail, severing it at the wrist and drawing the head under, crushing the skull from the left eye to the base of the brain. Deceased had no insurance.
The first delivery of mail in Oneonta by government carriers was made on Monday morning, the letter carriers in bright new uniforms, leaving the office soon after eight o’clock. Matters moved off nearly as smoothly on Monday morning as though the free delivery had been long in vogue. The advantages of the free delivery, although availed of by but comparatively few of the business men, will be appreciated by those living away from the business center. The free delivery system’s introduction here marks an epoch in the history of the village and is another step looking to the enrollment of Oneonta among the young cities of the Empire State.
April 1888
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