OBIT: David HUNTER, 1870, Ironville, Blair County, PA

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Mr. David Hunter
 
  FATAL ACCIDENT: - About half past five o'clock one morning last week, 
as Mr. David Hunter, an old man some seventy years of age, and an 
employee at the Birmingham Zinc Works, was on his way from  his home at 
Ironsville to work, was struck by a locomotive of one of the through 
freight trains, near the Ironsville bridge on the Pennsylvania 
Railroad, and so severely injured that he has since died. It appears 
that he had seen a train coming toward him on the track which be was 
walking, when he stepped to the other, on which there was a train also, 
but he did not see or hear it, owing to the darkness of the morning and 
the noise of the other train. He was dragged some distance by the 
engine, breaking his jaw and otherwise injuring him.  He had a lantern 
in his hand, which led the engineer to believe that it was a watchman 
(who was generally in that neighborhood about that time in the morning) 
and did not sound an alarm for him until it was too late.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., January 7, 1870