A man named Frank Williams, whose home is in La Crosse, Wis., and who is a doctor by profession, narrowly escaped death beneath the wheels of a freight car last evening. He stepped from the east bound passenger into the switch yard and while attempting to cross the rails was struck by a freight train, but fortunate for himself, friends and (perhaps) patients, he fell outside of the track and received no serious injuries.

Bismarck Tribune, 10/5/1883