Location: Osceola, MI

This location, known as Osceola Location, was adjacent to the mine of the same name. It was located on the Mineral Range railroad south of Calumet.

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Time Line

1896. June. As the special train over the Mineral Range railroad was returning north from Houghton yesterday afternoon, John Lang, a young man employed on the surface at the South Hecla, fell from the rear platform and sustained serious injuries. The accident occurred about half a mile south of the Osceola mine and the train was going at a high rate of speed as it had to pass the regular passenger coming from Calumet at the Osceola crossing. Lang, with a couple of boys, was standing on the platform of the rear car when his hat was seen to blow off. He made a grab to catch it and fell off, landing on his head against a stump.

The boys ran into the car and informed some of the passengers that a man had fallen off the train. The bell-rope was pulled but the train was almost to Osceola before it stopped. Some of the Passengers ran back to the place where the accident occurred and others rode back on the regular passenger train. The special then backed down to the place and Lang was put on the train.

He was unconscious and remained so for some time. The ambulance met the train at the Calumet depot and he was taken to the Calumet & Hecla hospital. A surgical examination revealed the fact that no bones were broken, but he received serious wounds about the face and was badly shaken up. He was at the hospital fully an hour before he regained consciousness and was removed to his home late in the evening. The physicians state that unless some unforeseen development shows up, his injuries are not very serious.

Everything was done by the railroad people as quickly as possible and no blame whatever can be attached to them for the accident. [CN-1896-0618]

1925. When the Mineral Range railroad closed its station at Osceola the other day, it took from Tom Sweeney, station agent, a job he had held since the station was opened 37 years ago. Railway express business, which has been handled at Osceola, has been transferred to the Calumet office. [PHTH-1925-1105]

1939. May 22. Due to a subsidence of ground of No. 12 shaft in the area between Calumet and Osceola near the old Osceola depot, train service over the Mineral Range/DSS&A will be suspended for several days between Calumet and Hancock. Mail and express will be taken to Houghton by truck. Passengers will be transported to Houghton by taxi, leaving the MR depot on train schedule time. [IDG-1939-0522] Rapid progress in grading the area near Osceola where a new stretch of track will be laid for the Mineral Range right-of-way, is being made by the Thornton Construction company of Hancock. Two large power shovels are being used in the grading work in addition to other equipment. Stamp sand was loaded at Lake Linden Tuesday and is expected to be transported to Calumet to be used as ballast for the new road bed. If progress continues at the presently rate, the work of laying rails will be started within the next day and will be completed for the resumption of rail passenger service over the line in ten days. [IDG-1939-0622]