Allegheny County PA Archives- News: Train Accident Mar 1872 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Marlene Stone, , Jul 2008 Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/ ________________________________________________ http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/newspapers/train-accident-1872.txt 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.