Franklin Wilbur Burkholder, 31, employed in the signal department of the Harrisburg Division, Reading Co., was instantly killed when hit by the engine hauling the train leaving Harrisburg at 6:10 a.m. Wednesday.
He was cleaning switches in the vicinity of P. H. and P. Junction, and steam from surrounding engines prevented him from seeing the approaching passenger train.
Burkholder resided in Tenth street, near Market, Harrisburg. He had been in the employ of the Reading Company for 3 years.
Mrs. Burkholder and one son are ill in the Harrisburg Hospital. Mr. Burkholder was a son of John and the late Jane Swanger Burkholder and was born near Roxbury. He was a former resident of Hays Grove where he was a member of the U. B. Church. The survivors are his wife, two sons aged 7 and 5 years, his father, and one sister, Mrs. W. D. Kendall, West King street, Shippensburg.
The body will arrive here on the 9:25 a.m. train on the Reading road Friday, and the funeral will be held from the home of his sister at 405 West King street at 11 o'clock. Internment will be made in Spring Hill cemetery.
The Chronicle
Shippensburg, PA
11 Feb 1926, Thu, Page 1
He was cleaning switches in the vicinity of P. H. and P. Junction, and steam from surrounding engines prevented him from seeing the approaching passenger train.
Burkholder resided in Tenth street, near Market, Harrisburg. He had been in the employ of the Reading Company for 3 years.
Mrs. Burkholder and one son are ill in the Harrisburg Hospital. Mr. Burkholder was a son of John and the late Jane Swanger Burkholder and was born near Roxbury. He was a former resident of Hays Grove where he was a member of the U. B. Church. The survivors are his wife, two sons aged 7 and 5 years, his father, and one sister, Mrs. W. D. Kendall, West King street, Shippensburg.
The body will arrive here on the 9:25 a.m. train on the Reading road Friday, and the funeral will be held from the home of his sister at 405 West King street at 11 o'clock. Internment will be made in Spring Hill cemetery.
The Chronicle
Shippensburg, PA
11 Feb 1926, Thu, Page 1
Franklin Wilbur Burkholder, 31, employed in the signal department of the Harrisburg Division, Reading Co., was instantly killed when hit by the engine hauling the train leaving Harrisburg at 6:10 a.m. Wednesday.
He was cleaning switches in the vicinity of P. H. and P. Junction, and steam from surrounding engines prevented him from seeing the approaching passenger train.
Burkholder resided in Tenth street, near Market, Harrisburg. He had been in the employ of the Reading Company for 3 years.
Mrs. Burkholder and one son are ill in the Harrisburg Hospital. Mr. Burkholder was a son of John and the late Jane Swanger Burkholder and was born near Roxbury. He was a former resident of Hays Grove where he was a member of the U. B. Church. The survivors are his wife, two sons aged 7 and 5 years, his father, and one sister, Mrs. W. D. Kendall, West King street, Shippensburg.
The body will arrive here on the 9:25 a.m. train on the Reading road Friday, and the funeral will be held from the home of his sister at 405 West King street at 11 o'clock. Internment will be made in Spring Hill cemetery.
The Chronicle
Shippensburg, PA
11 Feb 1926, Thu, Page 1
He was cleaning switches in the vicinity of P. H. and P. Junction, and steam from surrounding engines prevented him from seeing the approaching passenger train.
Burkholder resided in Tenth street, near Market, Harrisburg. He had been in the employ of the Reading Company for 3 years.
Mrs. Burkholder and one son are ill in the Harrisburg Hospital. Mr. Burkholder was a son of John and the late Jane Swanger Burkholder and was born near Roxbury. He was a former resident of Hays Grove where he was a member of the U. B. Church. The survivors are his wife, two sons aged 7 and 5 years, his father, and one sister, Mrs. W. D. Kendall, West King street, Shippensburg.
The body will arrive here on the 9:25 a.m. train on the Reading road Friday, and the funeral will be held from the home of his sister at 405 West King street at 11 o'clock. Internment will be made in Spring Hill cemetery.
The Chronicle
Shippensburg, PA
11 Feb 1926, Thu, Page 1
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