Allegheny County PA Archives-  Obituaries: Burke, M. F., Nov 1919
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Taken from McDonald Pa Outlook 27 Nov 1919

Two Freight Trains Collide
 
At five o'clock Tuesday morning, a collision of freight trains 
occurred on the Pennsylvania railroad at Jumbo, resulting in the death of 
two men and serious injuries to two others. Shortly before the accident a 
freight train with several stock cars attached, had pulled up to the tipple 
and was taking water. An engine and caboose pulled in behind it. As they 
were standing there a produce train, running at a high rate of speed, came 
from the west and crashed into the rear of the caboose of the second train, 
which plowed its way through into the stock train. Fire started almost 
immediately. Much of the stock got loose and went running over the hill 
side of the surrounding country; while a large number were burned. Damage 
to stock will run into thousands of dollars.
 
Traffic on passenger lines was tied up several hours, while the 
wreckage which blocked the tracks was cleared.
 
The dead--Fireman M. F. BURKE, aged 27, of Carnegie, and an 
unidentified man, burned beyond recognition. He had been riding in the 
caboose of the stock train and was burned to death when the wreckage caught 
fire. His body was taken to the Humphries morgue.
 
E. S. YINGLING and J. N. HILL, both of Pittsburgh received 
injuries and are said to be in a serious condition. The injured were rushed 
to Pittsburgh, but one of the firemen died on the way.