OBIT: John DIAMOND, 1875, Blair County, PA

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KILLED ON THE RAILROAD. - Early yesterday morning the locomotive
hauling the Day express train eastward bound run down a man named John
Diamond, a former resident of Altoona, at a point near Corney station
on the Pittsburgh's division.  The unfortunate man was a flagman
employed on a freight train, and but a moment before the express
train, __ thundering along he had stepped down  from his caboose car,
the train to __ was attached having been run in on a __.  Deceased was
killed instantly, his body being frightfully mutilated.  The train was
stopped, the remains placed on board and brought as far as Latrobe, at
which place an inquest was held later in the day.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, February 25, 1875, page 3

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John S. Diamond
b. 1847 d. 17 Feb 1875
Grandview Cemetery, Southmont, Cambria County, Pa.