OBIT: Oliver William CRAWFORD, 1915, East Altoona, Blair County, PA

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Instantly Killed.

  Failing to notice the approach of Pennsy train No. 75, Oliver W. 
Crawford, aged 55 years and residing at 1908 Seventh avenue, East 
Altoona, was struck and instantly killed while walking on No. 2 track, 
one mile west of Cove station, on the Middle division, at 8.15 Friday 
morning.
  Crawford was working with the crew in charge of Altoona freight No. 
3431 and was walking along the adjoining track while the freight train 
was halted to take water.  His body was terribly mangled beneath the 
passenger train which was running at a high rate of speed.  It was 
stopped and the crew found Crawford lying lifeless along the track.  
His remains were placed aboard the passenger train and taken to 
Duncannon, where the Perry county coroner had been summoned.  His 
relatives in Altoona were apprised of his death and the remains were 
taken there Friday afternoon at 2.58 o'clock.
  Members of the freight crew did not witness the accident.  Engineer 
J. D. Long and Conductor W. W. Burn were in charge of the passenger 
train.  Undertakers Roher & Mauk of Juniata took charge of the 
unfortunate man's body.
  Oliver William Crawford was born May 6, 1861, and had lived in this 
vicinity for the past thirty-eight years.  He was twice married; his 
second wife, who was nee Miss Edith Bookhamer, survives, with these 
children: Mrs. Mary Sweger, of Los Angeles, Cal.; Miss Jesse Crawford, 
of York, Pa.; two step-sons, Ray Bookhamer and Paul Crawford, the 
former being of Altoona, and the latter at home; a step-daughter, Mrs. 
C. R. Crabtree, of East Juniata, and a daughter Priscilla, at home, and 
a brother, David Crawford, of Pittsburgh, and one sister, Mrs. 
Campbell, of Juniata county.  The deceased was a member of St. John's 
Lutheran church of East Juniata, the Juniata camp P.O.S. of A., the 
P.R.R. Relief association.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Thursday, February 4, 1915