OBIT:  ECKENRODE, W. H.; 1909; Nant-y-Glo, Cambria Cnty., PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, PA
Friday, 15 Oct 1909
Volume 43, Number 42


Tragic Fate of Pennsy Employee 
Train Runs Down W. H. Eckenrode
Held Fast by Switch Frog

W. H. Eckenrode of 609 Eighteenth Street, Altoona, an extra 
conductor on the Pittsburg division of the PRR was fatally 
injured at Nant-y-Glo on Saturday morning at 5 o'clock by 
having his foot caught in a frog of the track, the wheels 
of his train passing over his leg. He died while being 
taken in the ambulance to the Altoona Hospital.

Bidding his wife and children good bye the evening before, 
Conductor Eckenrode left his home to accompany his train.  
At Nant-y-Glo he attempted to cross a track after signaling 
the engineer to move the train to a siding but his right 
foot caught in a frog.

As the train bore down upon him he threw his body outside 
the rails, the wheel crushing off the leg close to the hip. 

The unfortunate conductor had been a resident of Altoona 
for about four years and up until that time was a prominent 
citizen of Cambria County, having been born in Carrolltown 
in November, 1877. He was a man of brilliant mind and for a 
time was the editor of the Carrolltown NEWS and later of 
the Gallitzin TIMES and was prominent in all the social and 
civic affairs of his neighborhood. He was one of the 
foremost officials of the Improved Order of Heptasophs in 
Cambria County, being a member of the conclave, which he 
organized.  He was for a number of years deputy delegate to 
the National conclave. He was a member of the Sacred Heart 
Church of Altoona and the PRR Relief Fund.

He is survived by his wife and four children: Holden, 
Aloysius, Delores and Catherine; also by his mother, Mrs. 
Mary Eckenrode of Ebensburg, and the following brothers and 
sisters:  Mrs. Frank Sharbaugh of Ebensburg; Mrs. Holden 
Chester and Mrs. Frank Donahue of Carrolltown; Mrs. Mamie 
Buck of Hastings; Mrs. Myrtle Murphy of Barnesboro; Mrs. 
Stella Sanford of Philadelphia and Miss Vera Eckenrode of 
Ebensburg.  The remains were taken overland to Hastings, 
where interment was made.