Blair County PA Archives News.....John Deeny - Shocking Death on the Railroad. August 26, 1853
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Democrat And Sentinel: (Ebensburg, Pa.) August 26, 1853
On Wednesday last, an Irishman named John Deeny, was carved up on the Portage Road,
at the foot of Plane No. 19 by a train of freight cars. He was coming down the road,
and a locomotive with a train was going up. The noise and confusion bewildered him
so that he paid no attention to a train of cars immediately behind him. The front
car struck him, and he fell, the entire train passing over him, cutting him
literally in two. Michael Kelly and others, who were near, ran to his assistance but
it was too late. He gasped for a few minutes, without being able to speak, and died.
From a letter from his father, found in his pocket, it was ascertained that his name
was John Deeny, from Donegal, Ireland, and from the tenor of it, it was supposed
that he was going home. The letter was addressed to the care of Philip Collins,
Plane No. 2. His effects were taken charge of by Michael Simons and his body was
interred in the Catholic burying ground in Newry, Blair Co., Pa.

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