OBIT: James McCORD, 1891, Cambria County, PA

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Instantly Killed.

  The Altoona Times had an account of the following accident yesterday 
morning, and for additional particulars we are indebted to the 
Johnstown Tribune of April 14:
  John Martin and family live on Railroad street, corner of Fifth 
avenue, Sixteenth ward.  Last evening Mrs. Martin received a telegram 
announcing that her brother, James McCord, had been killed at Fallen 
Timber, on the Cresson and Clearfield railroad.  This morning Mr. and 
Mrs. Martin went up the mountain to take charge of the remains.  
Interment will be made at Gallitzin, where rest the remains of the 
deceased's mother, who died three years ago.  McCord left Johnstown 
about three months ago, his last employment here being at the Johnson 
works.  From this place he went to Benscreek, and thence to Frugality, 
on the Cresson and Clearfield railroad, where he was employed as a 
miner.
  Yesterday he made a trip on the railroad to a point beyond Fallen 
Timber and in the afternoon boarded a train to return to Frugality.  At 
Fallen Timber the train stopped and McCord alighted.  When the train 
started he attempted to board it, but was caught by a piece of timber 
and thrown under a car.  His body was run over and cut in two and the 
lower half was chopped to pieces.  The parts were gathered up by the 
trainmen and taken to Frugality, where they remained until this 
morning, when they were forwarded to Gallitzin.  Mr. McCord was 30 
years of age and unmarried.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, April 15, 1891