OBIT: William McCORMICK, 1887, Blair County, PA

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FATAL ACCIDENTS.

William McCormick, a young man well known in Altoona, was instantly
killed in the Panhandle yard, Pittsburgh, at 6 o'clock on Monday
evening.  He was a brakeman by occupation, and as nearly as can be
learned the accident occurred in the following manner.  Mr. McCormick
was on his way to his boarding house from work, and to get there
quickly boarded a train in the vicinity of Twenty-eighth street.  When
Twelfth street was reached he swung himself off and started across the
track in front of a shifting engine, which he failed to observe
coming.  He was struck the locomotive and instantly killed.  The
deceased was in the 24th year of his age and was a son of Thomas and
Catharine McCormick, of near McVeytown, Mifflin county.  His parents
are both dead and there are left to mourn his early death two brothers
and one sister.  Howard McCormick, residing at Second avenue and Ninth
street, Altoona, is a brother, as is also Bruce McCormick, who lives
in Pittsburgh.  His sister Martha was married on Thursday last to a
gentleman named Bowman, and when the accident occurred she was
visiting relatives in Buffalo, New York, intending thereafter to go to
Harrisburg, where her husband is employed, and there go to
housekeeping.  The deceased had for some time been a brakeman in the
Altoona yard, but last October, accompanied by his brother Bruce, who
is also a brakeman, he went west and there obtained employment.  He
had been railroading for about two years and was a member of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen.  Mr. McCormick was greatly liked by
all who knew him and his death will be greatly regretted by his many
friends.  His remains were brought to Altoona on Philadelphia express
last night and conveyed to the residence of his brother Howard.  They
will be taken to McVeytown for interment, at which place the funeral
will take place on Thursday.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, January 13, 1887, page 3

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William P. McCormick
1863 - 1887
Mattawana Cemetery, McVeytown, Mifflin County, Pa.