The Rome Citizen, August 12, 1902
Freight Wreck at Blossvale.
There was a bad freight wreck at the Blossvale crossing on the Watertown road, just above Taberg station about 11 p. m. Saturday. There is a steep grade a that point and the draw head pulled out of a car near the center of the train, breaking the air connection which set the brakes on the forward part of the train. The rear section ran into the forward section, throwing 15 cars off the track. Nine cars were damaged and two were broken into splinters. Wrecking crews were summoned from Utica and Watertown and the track gang from this city. Several rail lengths of track were twisted and torn up so that new rails had to be laid. A box car was thrown over into the ditch Ton the south side, breaking down a telegraph pole. Two carloads of new carriages from Watertown were wrecked.
A trainload of livestock had passed the point just ahead of the wrecked train.