Richard C. Travers was injured filming a scene in Niles Center, Illinois (now Skokie) where he hops on a moving freight train. The train engineers hat flew off and struck Travers in the face, momentarily blinding him, just as he was leaping on the back of the first car in the train behind the engine. He turned and jumped off but ended up with an 8 inch gash on his left arm, severe injury to a kneecap and several broken bones in his left hand.