OBIT: William SNYDER, 1873, Bedford County, PA

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Death of Mr. Wm. Snyder.

  On last Thursday, a passenger on the way passenger going West, by the 
name of Wm. Snyder, jumped off the train a short distance west of 
Gallitzin, while the train was running at the rate of thirty miles per 
hour, striking his head on the rail, splitting his skull.  While lying 
senseless, a freight train bound east came along and otherwise mangled 
him.  He was taken back to Gallitzin and a Coroner's inquest held on 
his remains, who returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death 
either by jumping from the train or by coming in contact with the 
freight locomotive.  Mr. Francis J. Parish was the foreman of the 
inquest.  From the evidence adduced it appears that Snyder was a 
resident of Bedford county and that he had purchased a ticket for 
Johnstown, and when the conductor asked him to show his ticket he 
refused, when he was informed that if he did not show it or pay he 
would have to get off the train.  A few minutes after, Snyder made the 
fatal leap.  On his person was found the railroad ticket and a small 
sum of money.  He was about forty years , and appeared to be a laboring 
man.

Altoona Sun, Altoona, Pa., Friday morning, July 25, 1873