OBIT: Patrick F. HUGHES, 1904, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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Engineer Killed

  Patrick F. Hughes of Altoona, one of the best known engineers in the 
service of the Pennsylvania railroad and the last of a family of 
railroaders met his death while in the performance of his duty at 12:05 
Sunday afternoon near the Fourth street bridge. 
  Mr. Hughes who was a yard engineer was taking his engine, No. 1,507, 
down through the yard at the time mentioned and had a clear track when 
he passed the last signal. Just after he passed the Fourth street 
bridge, his engine collided with a car that had been shifted off the 
siding for the Hoster Brewing company, and which had not entirely 
cleared the main track on which his engine was running.
  The top of the car struck the cab of the engine and tore it from the 
boiler and dropped it against the tank.  Mr. Hughes was caught under 
the cab and made an effort to shut his engine off. While he was thus 
engaged, the wrecked cab caught on a signal pole and was stripped off 
the engine and Mr. Hughes was thrown head first on a picket fence, his 
skull being fractured by the fall. He only lived a few minutes after 
the accident and never regained consciousness.

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa., Volume XXXVIII, Number 6, Friday, 
February 5, 1904