• Around 4:30 in the morning, as the Athletics were aboard a train near Peru, Indiana, en route to Detroit from St Louis, when their train collided with a freight train coming the other way

• Fortunately, neither train was traveling at full speed at the time of impact, though one of the engines of the A's train derailed into a ditch

• No players were injured, though they were delayed several hours waiting for another train to take them to Detroit, where they arrived seven hours later than expected

• They played a game in Detroit anyway, beating the Tigers, 5-1

• The Senators, who were on their way to St Louis, also were held up by the wreck and were forced to postpone that day's game