Allegheny County PA Archives-  Obituaries: Cain, John A., 07 Aug 1893

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from The Pittsburg Press dated Tuesday, August 8, 1893 (page 2):
 
Accidental Death
 
The coroner's jury rendered a verdict of accidental death in the case
of John CAIN, colored, of Twenty-eighth street, who was a porter at
union station. He fell from a shifting engine on the Pennsylvania
railroad near Seventeenth street yesterday afternoon about 6 o'clock
and was struck on the head by the wheels. He died an hour later at
the West Penn hospital.
 
 
from the City of Pittsburgh Death Records:
 
John A CAIN, age 36 years, married, porter at Union Depot, died August
7, 1893 at West Penn Hospital, from injuries received to the head on
the PRR at the 17th Street yards; son of Charles and Rachel CAIN; born
in Mercersburg, Franklin Co, PA; lived at 602 Jones Avenue; buried in
Union Dale Cemetery on August 9, 1893