YOUNG RAILROADER IS CRUSHED TO DEATH
William Anderson, Caught Between Bumpers of Cars on Indiana Branch, Killed Instantly.
PARENTS RESIDING IN BIG RUN
Crushed between the drawheads of two coal cars, William Anderson, a young brakeman in the employ of the B.R. & P. Railroad company, was almost instantly killed at Lucerne yesterday shortly before noon.
Death came to the young man in a peculiar way. At Lucerne an engine drawing three cars of coal had gone onto a siding to pick up three cars of cinder. The coupling missed and young Anderson hurried in to open the knuckles of the bumpers on the one car for recoupling. The cars containing the ashes were on a slight grade and when the coupling failed to make the impact sent the three cars a short distance up the track. When Anderson jumped in to open the knuckles he had his back turned to the ash cars and did not see them falling slowly down the grade toward him. Just as he succeeded in opening the knuckles of the coupling the incline propelled cars struck him, pinning him against the drawhead that he had just opened. His cry brought fellow employees to his aid and they found him pinned upright between the bumpers. He was quickly released, but death had already claimed him: His body was brought to Punxsutawney during the afternoon and taken to the Robinson undertaking parlor where it remained until this morning when it was taken to the home of the parents in Big Run.
The young man was but 24 years of age and had been employed by the B.R.&P. company as brakeman, since last July. He first worked out of DuBois, but for several months had been making Punxsutawney his headquarters. The past week he had been working out of Lucerne. He had been married but a short time and his wife was living with her mother at Kittanning until such time as they were permanently located. She arrived in Punxsutawney this morning.
The young man is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson, of Big Run, three brothers and four sisters.
The body will be taken from Big Run to Kittanning for burial tomorrow.
Published in the Punxsutawney Spirit
William Anderson, Caught Between Bumpers of Cars on Indiana Branch, Killed Instantly.
PARENTS RESIDING IN BIG RUN
Crushed between the drawheads of two coal cars, William Anderson, a young brakeman in the employ of the B.R. & P. Railroad company, was almost instantly killed at Lucerne yesterday shortly before noon.
Death came to the young man in a peculiar way. At Lucerne an engine drawing three cars of coal had gone onto a siding to pick up three cars of cinder. The coupling missed and young Anderson hurried in to open the knuckles of the bumpers on the one car for recoupling. The cars containing the ashes were on a slight grade and when the coupling failed to make the impact sent the three cars a short distance up the track. When Anderson jumped in to open the knuckles he had his back turned to the ash cars and did not see them falling slowly down the grade toward him. Just as he succeeded in opening the knuckles of the coupling the incline propelled cars struck him, pinning him against the drawhead that he had just opened. His cry brought fellow employees to his aid and they found him pinned upright between the bumpers. He was quickly released, but death had already claimed him: His body was brought to Punxsutawney during the afternoon and taken to the Robinson undertaking parlor where it remained until this morning when it was taken to the home of the parents in Big Run.
The young man was but 24 years of age and had been employed by the B.R.&P. company as brakeman, since last July. He first worked out of DuBois, but for several months had been making Punxsutawney his headquarters. The past week he had been working out of Lucerne. He had been married but a short time and his wife was living with her mother at Kittanning until such time as they were permanently located. She arrived in Punxsutawney this morning.
The young man is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson, of Big Run, three brothers and four sisters.
The body will be taken from Big Run to Kittanning for burial tomorrow.
Published in the Punxsutawney Spirit
YOUNG RAILROADER IS CRUSHED TO DEATH
William Anderson, Caught Between Bumpers of Cars on Indiana Branch, Killed Instantly.
PARENTS RESIDING IN BIG RUN
Crushed between the drawheads of two coal cars, William Anderson, a young brakeman in the employ of the B.R. & P. Railroad company, was almost instantly killed at Lucerne yesterday shortly before noon.
Death came to the young man in a peculiar way. At Lucerne an engine drawing three cars of coal had gone onto a siding to pick up three cars of cinder. The coupling missed and young Anderson hurried in to open the knuckles of the bumpers on the one car for recoupling. The cars containing the ashes were on a slight grade and when the coupling failed to make the impact sent the three cars a short distance up the track. When Anderson jumped in to open the knuckles he had his back turned to the ash cars and did not see them falling slowly down the grade toward him. Just as he succeeded in opening the knuckles of the coupling the incline propelled cars struck him, pinning him against the drawhead that he had just opened. His cry brought fellow employees to his aid and they found him pinned upright between the bumpers. He was quickly released, but death had already claimed him: His body was brought to Punxsutawney during the afternoon and taken to the Robinson undertaking parlor where it remained until this morning when it was taken to the home of the parents in Big Run.
The young man was but 24 years of age and had been employed by the B.R.&P. company as brakeman, since last July. He first worked out of DuBois, but for several months had been making Punxsutawney his headquarters. The past week he had been working out of Lucerne. He had been married but a short time and his wife was living with her mother at Kittanning until such time as they were permanently located. She arrived in Punxsutawney this morning.
The young man is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson, of Big Run, three brothers and four sisters.
The body will be taken from Big Run to Kittanning for burial tomorrow.
Published in the Punxsutawney Spirit
William Anderson, Caught Between Bumpers of Cars on Indiana Branch, Killed Instantly.
PARENTS RESIDING IN BIG RUN
Crushed between the drawheads of two coal cars, William Anderson, a young brakeman in the employ of the B.R. & P. Railroad company, was almost instantly killed at Lucerne yesterday shortly before noon.
Death came to the young man in a peculiar way. At Lucerne an engine drawing three cars of coal had gone onto a siding to pick up three cars of cinder. The coupling missed and young Anderson hurried in to open the knuckles of the bumpers on the one car for recoupling. The cars containing the ashes were on a slight grade and when the coupling failed to make the impact sent the three cars a short distance up the track. When Anderson jumped in to open the knuckles he had his back turned to the ash cars and did not see them falling slowly down the grade toward him. Just as he succeeded in opening the knuckles of the coupling the incline propelled cars struck him, pinning him against the drawhead that he had just opened. His cry brought fellow employees to his aid and they found him pinned upright between the bumpers. He was quickly released, but death had already claimed him: His body was brought to Punxsutawney during the afternoon and taken to the Robinson undertaking parlor where it remained until this morning when it was taken to the home of the parents in Big Run.
The young man was but 24 years of age and had been employed by the B.R.&P. company as brakeman, since last July. He first worked out of DuBois, but for several months had been making Punxsutawney his headquarters. The past week he had been working out of Lucerne. He had been married but a short time and his wife was living with her mother at Kittanning until such time as they were permanently located. She arrived in Punxsutawney this morning.
The young man is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson, of Big Run, three brothers and four sisters.
The body will be taken from Big Run to Kittanning for burial tomorrow.
Published in the Punxsutawney Spirit
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