Cambria County PA Archives News.....Shocking Railroad Accident.  August 1870
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The Cambria Freeman. (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938: August 25, 1870 August 1870
Two lads named McHugh and Burns, sons (if we are rightly informed) of Mr. Chas.
McHugh and Mr. Peter Burns, residing at Gallitzin, this county, were struck by a
ballast train west on Tuesday morning of this week, and one of them was instantly
killed and the other so terribly injured that he cannot possibly survive if he is
not dead ere this. The accident occurred near Gallitzin, and was the result of
thoughtlessness on part of the boys themselves, and could not have been foreseen or
prevented by any one connected with the train. The lads were standing on the track
watching an approaching stock train , when the ballast train came up in an opposite
direction and struck them both with the result stated. Another lad named Howell was
with them at the time, but had presence of mind enough to throw himself down between
the two tracks, and thus escaped injury. The unfortunate youths were only some ten
or twelve years of age. Their bodies were shockingly mangled. 

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