Allegheny County PA Archives- Obituaries: Murphy, Timothy, Dec 1873 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Marlene Stone, , Feb 2009 Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/ ________________________________________________ http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/obits/murphy-timothy.txt Deaths from the Hollidaysburg Register, Blair County Weekly News. (PA.) Wed. 17 Dec. 1873 issue. MURPHY - HORRIBLE FATALITY - An accident of a most shocking nature occured in the borough of Etna, near Pittsburg, between seven and eight o'clock, Thursday morning. So far as we have been able to learn, the particulars are as follows: A young unmarried man, a laborer, named Timothy Murphy, was in the employ of Spang, Chalfant & Co., proprietors of the Isabella furnace. It was his duty to put the material into the furnace, and to do this it was necessary for him to stand upon a platform elevated some distance from the ground floor. While he and his companion were in the act of putting some material into the furnace that morning some part of the stack gave way and young Murphy fell into the furnace, and before he could be rescued was burned to a crisp. When taken out he was a horribly mutilated corpse. Murphy was a citizen of Hollidaysburg, where his friends now reside, and only left here a couple months ago. HIs remains were brought to this place, on Saturday evening last, and interred on Sunday afternoon, in the Catholic cemetery.