Allegheny County PA Archives-  Obituaries: STEELE - KELLY, 11 Dec 1899

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from The Pittsburgh Press dated Monday, December 11, 1899 (page 3):
 
SWITCHMAN'S FATAL ERROR
 
Otis STEEL, a fireman on the Monongahela division of the Pennsylvania,
was fatally injured in a collision in the Pittsburg yards at
Twenty-sixth street, at the junction of the Allegheny Valley tracks.
Two engines came together and STEEL was caught in the wreckage and
received such injuries that he died a short term after being taken to
the West Penn Hospital.
 
The engine on which STEEL was working had just come in off a run and
was being taken up to the round house. The accident occurred at about
5 o'clock. A switch was set wrong and the engine, instead of keeping
on the Pennsylvania tracks switched off to the Valley at Twenty-sixth
street. Before the engineer could make a move to stop the engine it
ran into a Valley engine which was coming in the opposite direction,
the two engines coming together right by the cab. STEEL was pinned
against the side of the boiler and it was some time before he could be
extricated. He was 31 years old and married and his home was at
Manorville. He had been in the employ of the road for about eight
years.
 
 
from The Pittsburgh Press dated Monday, December 11, 1899 (page 5):
 
Peter R KELLY, of Ashton street, Allegheny, who was hurt in an
accident on the Pittsburg & Fort Wayne railroad on December 6, died at
the Mercy Hospital this morning. He was 29 years of age and married.
(under an article titled, Freight Engines Crash)
 
from The Pittsburgh Press dated Tuesday, December 12, 1899 (page 10):
 
KELLEY - Monday, at 9 am, Thomas KELLEY, aged 28 years, at his
residence, 58 Ashton street. Funeral services at Roman Catholic
Church, Beaver Avenue, Allegheny, at 9 am Wednesday. Friends of the
family are respectfully invited to attend.

 
from the City of Pittsburgh Death Records:
 
Thomas KELLY, age about 29 years, married, brakeman, died December 11,
1899, in Mercy Hospital, internal injuries due to railroad accident;
son of John and Bridget KELLY, both from Ireland; born in Pittsburgh;
lived in Allegheny City; burial in Calvary Cemetery on December 13,
1899.
 
David Kirkpatrick STEELE, age 31 years, single, railroad fireman, died
December 11, 1899, in West Penn Hospital, shock following railroad
accident; son of William STEELE; born in Westmoreland County; burial
in Export PA cemetery on December 13, 1899.