OBIT: Wesley SHANK, 1900, Gallitzin, Cambria County, PA

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Morning Tribune
Altoona, PA
Friday, January 5, 1900

LOCAL BREVITIES.

Wesley Shank, of Gallitzin, was instantly killed at that place at 
6.40 o'clock Wednesday morning by being run down by an engine.  He was 
aged 52 years and had been in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
company for the past twenty-five years, and for seventeen years had 
been flagman on the Gallitzin wreck train.  He is survived by a wife 
and two children.