On August 6, 1905, a runaway train engine raced from Love Point toward Chester Station, which stood 80 feet ahead and offered the last hope of avoiding a collision with another train coming from the east. Around 8 p.m., the station agent received a call to switch the unmanned locomotive to a sidetrack, but the warning came too late. Speeding past Chester Station at 40 mph, the 70-ton locomotive crashed into Train No. 3 from Rehoboth, Delaware, after it had crossed the Kent Narrows and approached the station. Fireman Gus Roe was thrown 60 feet into the marsh, most of the 26 passengers escaped injury, and Engineer James Brown suffered injuries so severe that few expected him to survive. Wrecking crews worked through the night to clear the damaged trains from the tracks. Lee Bell likely served as the station agent that day and went on to become one of the area's most prominent citizens after 30 years as Chester Station agent. He lived in a nearby brick farmhouse, died there on February 26, 1934, after a second heart attack, and by 1961 the land was known as the Old Chester Station property, though the exact date of the station's removal is unknown.