OBIT: Charles LORD, 1899, near Kittanning Point, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ ANOTHER MAN KILLED. Charles Lord the Third Victim of a Railroad Accident This Week. Charles Lord, colored, a native of Charleston, S.C., was killed about 6 o'clock yesterday morning on the railroad at IA tower, about a mile west of Kittanning Point. He was employed as a laborer on the railroad improvements by Contractor H. S. Kerbaugh. He has been working since July 5 and was on the night gang, which quits about 6 a.m. each day. He had started to walk to the shanties with a companion when a freight train came along and Lord, in attempting to get on it, was struck by Atlantic express. He was hurled fifty feet and when Roxie P. Epps, his companion, ran up to him, he was dead. The remains were brought to Altoona on a snapper and taken to the morgue of Undertaker Lafferty. It was found that Lord's skull was fractured on the left side of the head and his right hand was crushed. Deputy Coroner H. W. McCartney visited the dead man's employer yesterday afternoon and learned that Lord has due him wages amounting to $22. The burial will take place to-day in Oak Ridge cemetery. The dead man was probably 22 years of age. It is evident from the information secured by the deputy coroner that no one but himself is to blame for his death, and no inquest will be held. Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, August 12, 1899