From the September, 1914 issue of Erie Railroad Magazine:
William Hineman, a well-known engineer on the Delaware Division of the Erie, met death in the wreck of his engine and a fast freight train at the tower just this side of Deposit, between three and four o'clock Sunday morning, August 16th (1914)

Hineman was going west with freight train 77 and at the switch at this tower, his engine sideswiped train 87 that was pulling out on the main track, the effect of the collision was to knock two or three cars of the train in the switch from the track and to wreck the right side of the engine. Hineman was caught in the wreckage and was unable to get out. Fellow workmen came to his assistance but were powerless to do anything to help him.