Allegheny County PA Archives- Obituaries: Jackson, Rose, 19 Apr 1897 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Martha Little, , May 2010 Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/ ________________________________________________ from The Pittsburgh Press dated Monday, April 19, 1897 (page 4): RUN DOWN BY A TRAIN Rose JACKSON, 11 years old, of 12 Ellsworth street, Allegheny, was struck by a Ft Wayne passenger train at North and Irwin avenues, at 9:10 this morning and instantly killed. The body was frightfully mangled. The child had gone down to North avenue to see the circus parade. She stood on the track and did not notice the train which ran her down. Her body was removed to the home of her parents in the patrol wagon. from The Pittsburgh Press dated Monday, April 19, 1897 (page 9): HURLED HIGH IN AIR The North avenue crossing of the Pittsburg, Ft Wayne & Chicago railroad in Allegheny was the scene of another fatality this morning. Rose JACKSON, an 11-year-old girl, living with her widowed mother at 12 Ellsworth street, was instantly killed by the Erie express. Her sudden demise adds another death to the already long list of fatalities attributable to the North Side grade crossings. The victim of this morning's accident left her home but a few minutes before and was on her way to view the circus parade. She was accompanied by her brother Hugh, aged 14 years. A passing freight train at Irwin and North avenues delayed the two anxious children some moments. When it passed they did not wait for the safety gates to be raised but started across the tracks. Four different sets of tracks cross North avenue in a diagonal manner at the intersection of Irwin avenue. The two children reached the third track in safety, when the eastbound Erie express, running at a high rate of speed, thundered down the tracks. The pedestrians shouted to the two children, and the engineer of the train, seeing their danger, tried in vain to check the speed of his train. Hugh JACKSON crossed the tracks in safety. His sister reached the edge of the tie on the opposite side when the cylinder head of the engine struck her. Death was instantaneous. The concussion hurled her high in the air and this saved the remains from being frightfully mangled. The brother was the first to reach the body of the child. Two men, who witnessed the accident, also ran and picked up the child. Lead by the brother of the deceased, they started for the house. The mother, Mrs Jane JACKSON, was prostrated when the body was brought home, as it was the first she had learned of the death of her daughter. Rose was the youngest of a family of five children and the only daughter. There were a number of eye witnesses to the accident and all, including the tower man in the signal tower, corroborated the above. North avenue is one of the most dangerous crossings in Allegheny. For years, the resident have fought for the elevating of the railroad tracks in order that the liability to such accidents as occurred this morning might be lessened. They have been unsuccessful so far, as the railroad company refuses to take any action until forced to do by the courts. from The Pittsburgh Press dated Tuesday, April 20, 1897 (page 5): An inquest was held in the coroner's office to-day in the case of Rosie JACKSON, aged 11 years, who was killed yesterday morning by a Fort Wayne train at the railroad crossing, North and Irwin avenues, Allegheny. A verdict of accidental death was returned. from the Allegheny City Death Records: Rose JACKSON, age 11 years, schoolgirl, died April 19, 1897, killed on the Erie & PA railroad; born in Ireland; daughter of John and Margaret JACKSON; lived at 12 Ellsworth Avenue, Allegheny; burial in Union Dale Cemetery on April 21, 1897.