OBIT: Joseph B. REICHERT, 1917, native of Blair County, PA

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FORMER ALTOONAN KILLED BY TRAIN
J. B. Reichert, Native of This City, Dies at Cambria Hospital, 
Johnstown

  Struck by a passenger train while crossing the Pennsy tracks at 
Conemaugh, Joseph B. Reichert, of 548 Bedford street, Dale, near 
Johnstown, was fatally injured, at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon.  He was 
a native of Altoona and was well known here.
  Mr. Reichert, who was employed as a conductor by the Pennsy company, 
had attended to some business in the yard office and was re-crossing 
the tracks, when struck by passenger train No. 601.  He was rushed to 
the Cambria hospital, Johnstown, where it was found that he had 
suffered a fractured skull and internal injuries.  He died at 2.45 
o'clock the same afternoon.
  Joseph B. Reichert was born in Altoona November 22, 1880, the son of 
Mr. and Mrs. John Reichert.  He was married in this city, 1899, to Miss 
Vene Fraley, who survives with one son, John.  He is also survived by 
his father, John Reichert, of 1925 Fifth avenue, this city; three 
sisters, Mrs. Charles Cassatta, Mrs. John Barnhart and Miss Elizabeth, 
all of Altoona, as well as one brother, Leo Reichert, also of this 
city.
  He was a member of United Lodge No. 174, Brotherhood of Railroad 
Trainmen, Altoona, and of Eagles, Johnstown lodge of Moose and the 
Pennsy relief association.
  The funeral will be held with requiem mass at St. John's Roman 
Catholic church, Johnstown, at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.  Interment 
will be made at that place.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Morning, February 13, 1917