Location: Ward Station, MI

Ward Station was a location on the Detroit & Charlevoix railroad in Antrim County, about 1.3 miles west of Jordan River. Also known as Wards.

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1901. November 16. A distressing accident took place yesterday at Wards station, a small lumber siding a few miles from Frederick on the Detroit, Frederick & Charlevoix railroad, when a woodsman known as Joseph Shoemaker, was injured so seriously that he died at an early hour this morning at Saginaw General Hospital. Shoemaker, who was employed by the Ward estate in the lumber camps in that vicinity, had climbed onto a car load of logs preparatory to riding some distance to reach a point where he would get his dinner. While sitting in this position an engine backed down to couple on the card and Shoemaker was suddenly thrown between the cars. He landed across the rails and the moving wheel crushed his right leg and otherwise mangled his body.

He was picked up and removed to Frederick, where a local physician, with the assistance of the woodsmen, temporarily dressed his wounds. It was decided to send the man to a Saginaw hospital and we was brought on the first train out of the village. In Saginaw, the crushed leg was amputated but the shock and long rides resulted in much loss of blood. [SAG-1901-1116]