OBIT: Elsworth WALTERS, 1903, South Fork, Cambria County, PA OBIT: L. WHITE, 1903, South Fork, Cambria County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, February 6, 1903 FATAL WRECK A disastrous and fatal wreck was caused by a runaway freight train on the Scalp Level railroad at Summit at 5 o'clock Friday morning. An engine and eighteen cars went over the embankment and one man was killed and four men were injured. The train was coming toward South Fork, and in coming down the steep mountain grade, it got beyond the control of the crew. Running almost a mile a minute it struck a curve at Summit and the engine and eighteen cars went over the embankment, piling up in an almost inextricable mass of wreckage. The train's crew was carried over with it and it is a miracle that any of them escaped alive. Brakeman L. White was killed and his body was not recovered until four o'clock in the afternoon. Engineer F. White was scalded about the body before he succeeded in extricating himself. E. M. Walker, conductor and in charge of the train, was so badly injured that he died on Friday evening at 5:30 o'clock at the Cambria hospital in Johnston, where he had been taken during the day. Flagman W. A. Miller and Brakeman D. B. Boyles escaped with a shaking up and badly bruised. The dead brakeman and injured trainmen were all residents of South Fork. Conductor Walters was twenty-four years old and is survived by his widow and two children. South Fork Cemetery, Croyle Township, Cambria County, PA - WALTER, Caroline 03 Apr 1901 28 Mar 1904 C WALTER, Edna May 03 Aug 1889 13 Feb 1904 C WALTER, Ellsworth M. 30 Jan 1904 age 24yrs 1mo C WALTER, Rose A. 27 Dec 1879 25 Jun 1943 1900 South Fork, Cambria County census - Elsworth Walter, 20 Rosona Walter, 18 Edna May Walter, 9.12