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Altoona Sun
Friday, May 1, 1874

  THE OLD STORY. - On last Wednesday six men were killed outright and one 
seriously injured in this vicinity on the Pennsylvania railroad.  The 
first one the list was an unknown tramp who was walking on the track, 
near Huntingdon, run over and instantly killed by a passing train.

  On the same day Amos and Jacob Pardee, P. S. Irwin and W. W. Irwin, 
bothers, and Jacob Bowden, all residing near the Cherrytree, were walking 
on the track between Gallitzin and Cresson.  Noticing a freight train 
approaching they stepped on to the other track to avoid it just in time 
to be hit by the pilot of the Pacific Express which had approached them 
in their rear undiscovered, killing four of them outright, W. W. Irwin 
escaping with a broken leg and other injuries.  Bowden was the only one 
of the number who was married.  These persons were returning from a trip 
down the river with lumber, and had left the accommodation train at 
Gallitzin to walk across the country, but finding the snow too deep 
returned to Gallitzin and started on foot for Cresson, intending at the 
latter place to take the Ebensburg train.