Allegheny County PA Archives-  News: Train Accident Mar 1872

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Deaths from the Hollidaysburg Register, Blair County Weekly News. (PA.)
Wed. 27 March 1872 issue

DEATHS - ACCIDENT - The Southern express train for the West on the 
Pennsylvania Rairoad was wrecked at Conemaugh Furnace, about twelve miles west of 
Johnstown, at 7 o'clock Friday morning. The cause of the accident was a broken rail. 
The engine and six forward cars kept on the track, but three cars went off, 
one of them going over the embankment. The three cars wrecked were palace 
cars, one being the Louisville sleeper. one the Philadephia and Pittsburg sleeper, 
and the other the Baltimore and Pittsburg sleeper. The names of the killed 
and wounded on the Southern express are as follows.
Killed - Amanda Hartman of Chicago; and Samuel Jacobs, jeweler, Baltimore.
Wounded - Mayor A.P. Callow, Guy M. Irwin, James Brown, and Mrs. A. Roblem, 
all of Allegheny City, Pa., the first two named seriously; D.C. Patterson of 
Washington City; Joseph Lellybridge of Forest, Ohio; E. Tyron of New York; G.N. 
Phillips of Newcastle; H.C. Frost of Hannibal, Mo.; G.D. Shepard of Cadiz, 
Ohio; and E. Beaker of Terre Haute, Ind.