Cambria County PA Archives Obituaries.....Myers, John 1869
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The Cambria freeman. (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938: September 02, 1869
John Myers a single man, was killed on the Cambria Iron Company's railroad, near the
Third Ward School House, on Saturday afternoon about five o'clock. The cinder train
was backing down from Woodvale with workmen on board returning from their labor, and
as a terrible storm was just commencing, it is supposed the train was running faster
than usual, or the dust may have blown so as to blind the engineer. At any rate,
from some cause, the train ran off the track and Myers, who was acting as a
brakeman, was thrown off, his left arm broken and his right side so bruised that he
died in about one hour. He boarded at Joseph Shoemaker's, in Conemaugh borough, to
which place he was carried. Coroner Harrold held an inquest over the body and the
testimony showed the facts to be about the same as above stated. Mr. Myers had
formerly been an engineer here, but left for California, where he had been for
several years. He returned only about five months ago.

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