Station: Inverness, MI

Inverness was a hamlet located on the Detroit & Mackinac railroad, four miles south of Cheboygan.

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1905. Cheboygan, September 8. The southern Michigan express on the D&M railroad, a solid vestibule train, leaving Cheboygan at 11:42 a.m. daily for Detroit, was wrecked today about four miles south of Cheboygan (near Inverness). The tender jumped the track and ran for about 200 yards on the ties, when a loose rail caught the rear truck and turned it over. The truck was driven under the baggage car, the front truck of which was knocked sixteen feet out of place, causing the car to jump the track. All of the passenger cars kept the track and no one was hurt, but it was a miraculous escape. A big crew of men with a work train came from Tower and are at work on the wreck. It is expected that traffic will be resumed by tomorrow morning. [DFP-1905-0909]