OBIT: William FOREMAN, 1887, Bedford County, PA

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A Track Watchman Killed.

  William Foreman, who has been in the employ of the H. & B.T.R.R. Co. 
for a number of years as track watchman met a horrible death, two miles 
south of Saxton, about 9 o'clock Tuesday evening, by being run over by 
Mail south.  The engineer says that while he was rounding a curve at 
the point where the accident happened he observed a man lying across 
the track a short distance ahead of him, apparently asleep, with his 
feet on one rail and his head on the other, with his lantern beside 
him.  Every effort was made to stop the train, but the distance was too 
short, and it struck the unfortunate man, mutilating his body in a 
frightful manner.  His remains were taken back to Saxton where an 
inquest was held.  Foreman had but one arm, was aged about 30 years, 
and leaves a wife and three small children to mourn his sudden and 
tragic death.

The Huntingdon Journal, Huntingdon, Pa., Friday, August 5, 1887