OBIT: Michael MURPHY, 1880, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA

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Several Serious Accidents.

  Michael Murphy was killed at Braddock station early yesterday 
morning.  He was a brakeman on a shifting engine of the Edgar Thompson 
Steel Works and was in the act of stepping from a coke car to the main 
line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, when a gravel train backing 
down struck him and ground him to pieces.  He boarded in Braddock, but 
his home was in Johnstown.  The coroner was notified of his death.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, February 17, 1880