OBIT: James A. JACOBS, 1893, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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A Young Brakeman Killed.

  James A. Jacobs, aged 20 years, brakeman on William Lowe's local 
freight train, running between Altoona and Union Furnace, met his death 
at No. 11 bridge at Ironsville on Thursday morning.  The mangled body 
of the unfortunate young man was found lying along the track by 
Conductor Wolf's crew of local trainmen before he had been missed from 
his own train.  The remains were taken to Tyrone, where they were 
prepared for burial by Undertakers Burley & Graham, who shipped the 
body on Saturday afternoon to Mifflin, where the young man's parents 
reside.  The deceased had been running on this local train for the pat 
two years and boarded in this city.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Monday Evening, March 20, 1893