Allegheny County PA Archives- Obituaries: Vollmer, Joseph, 12 Dec 1890 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Martha Little, , Aug 2010 Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/ ________________________________________________ from The Pittsburgh Press dated Saturday, December 13, 1890 (page 1): About 7 o'clock last night a car repairman named FALLNER was working under a car in the Twenty-eighth street yards of the Pennsylvania road when a shifting engine backed up and ran over him. He was taken to the West Penn hospital for treatment, but he was so badly injured that he died before midnight. His address could not be learned. (under an article titled, Railway Wrecks) from The Pittsburgh Dispatch dated Saturday, December 13, 1890 (page 2): Joseph VOLLMER, Pennsylvania railroad car inspector died at the West Penn Hospital yesterday from injuries received in the yards at Twenty-ninth street only a few moments before. He was 45 years old and lived at Bloomfield. The coroner will investigate today. (under an article titled, Dead and Injured) from the City of Pittsburgh Death Records: John Stephen VOLLMAN (*), age 54 years, married, car repairman, died December 12, 1890, crushed by train in PRR yards at 29th Street; born in Germany; lived at 431 Cedar Street; burial in Allegheny Cemetery on December 14, 1890. The Allegheny Cemetery site notes John Stephen VOLLMER buried in Section 31, Lot 630. The census lists the wife's name as Mary with known children Charles, Mollie, Christopher, Frederick, Bertha, Tillie and Henry. (*) probable transcription error on my part