OBIT: Samuel EICHER, 1862, Pittsburg, Allegheny County, PA

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Fatal Railroad Accident

  An accident resulting in the death of an engineer named Saml. Eicher, 
and the serious injury of three or four other railroad attaches, 
occurred on the Pennsylvania Railroad on Saturday night. The 
particulars as we have learned them are about as follows:  In ascending 
the heavy grade between Wilmore and Cresson, this county, a second 
freight train was used to assist the progress of a heavily laden one in 
front.  When the top of the grade had been reached, the "pusher" of the 
second train came in rather violent contact with the first, with the 
effect of throwing the locomotive off the track.  The man, Eicher, was 
caught between the locomotive and tender and was injured to such an 
extent that he died in a few hours. His remains were taken to Pittsburg 
for interment.  Mr. William Bruce of this county, the engineer of the 
train, was so severely scalded that his life is despaired of. The other 
parties were severely but not dangerously injured.

The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa., Volume 3, Number 20, Thursday, 
February 6, 1862