Allegheny County PA Archives-  Obituaries: Holmes, Albert, Apr 1892

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April 1892  McDonald Outlook

  At Collier station on...Albert HOLMES, a son of Joseph HOLMES, who recently...
Houstonville to the house...PLANCE on Center avenue, was killed by the cars.  
While pulling o...the chain broke and he was...the track and run over.  He 
was taken to a Steubenville hospital where he died.  Both legs and one arm 
were cut off.  The remains were brought to his father’s house on Wednesday 
and the funeral was on Thursday.  Services were held at the Presbyterian 
Church to which place the corpse was taken, and the interment was at the 
Arlington Cemetery.

  Albert HOLMES was about 21 years old.  He had been on the road about 
two years.  Recently he had been promoted to Conductor ad was assigned 
to a train of which he was to take charge in about two weeks.