OBIT: Edward CULLIGAN & Philip ROMAN, 1904, Spangler, Cambria County, PA

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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, April 22, 1904
Volume XXXVIII, Number 17

Victims of the Rail

  Two more victims of the rail met death Tuesday in a tragic manner on 
the P. R. R. tracks between South Fork and Wilmore, both being 
practically ground to pieces by being caught under trains.  The two 
dead men are Edward Culligan, aged 52 years of Spangler, whose body was 
found at South Fork about 5 o'clock Tuesday morning and Philip Roman of 
Ehrenfeld who was killed at Wilmore about 6:30 o'clock Tuesday evening.
  Edward Culligan, an aged resident of Spangler, whose body was 
discovered about 5 o'clock at the tipple of the Argyle mines near South 
Fork was horribly mutilated.  Just how the victim met his death is not 
known as no one saw the accident and the man had plainly been dead for 
some hours before the body was discovered.  It is supposed that he met 
his death while walking along the tracks Monday night, being hit by a 
fast train.
  He had a son living in South Fork and was a miner by occupation but 
having been out of work for some time went down to South Fork Monday to 
try and secure work.  He was engaged by the Argyle Coal company and was 
to have started work last Wednesday morning and it is supposed that he 
was walking down to the tipple to look over the grounds, as no other 
motive can be advanced which would have taken him to that neighborhood. 
The remains were prepared for burial and were shipped to Spangler.