Allegheny County PA Archives-  Obituaries: WEIGLE, Charles Walter, 15 May 1898

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from The Pittsburgh Press dated Monday, May 16, 1898 (page 4):
 
Charles Walter WEIGEL, 20 years old, of Monaca, Beaver county, was
killed at Becks run yesterday. He was a brakeman on the Pittsburg &
Lake Erie railroad, and while making a coupling his foot caught in a
frog and a portion of the train ran over him. (under an article
titled, Heavy Casualty List)
 
 
from the City of Pittsburgh Death Records:
 
Charles Walter WEIGER, age about 20 years, single, brakeman, died May
15, 1898, at West Penn Hospital, shock due to railroad injury; son of
Ray and Dora WEIGER; born in PA; lived in Monaca, PA; burial in a
Monaca PA cemetery on May 17, 1898.
 
Census records suggests that the surname is some variation of WEIGEL.