OBIT: Anthony WEAKLAND, 1903, native of Cambria County, PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, November 20, 1903

Two Killed in a Railroad Accident

  Two engines running on the Cambria & Clearfield Division of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad ran together at Bradley's Junction in a fog at 
5:30 o'clock last Saturday morning.  The collision resulted in both 
locomotives being badly wrecked and in the deaths of Fireman A. M. 
Weakland of No. 1917 Eleventh avenue, Altoona, and Brakeman Bert Eberly 
of Cresson and injury to Engineer J. Hayes Buck of No. M., Washington 
avenue, Engineer V. A. Quartz of Cresson and Fireman Faber Kaylor of 
Cresson. 
  The collision was an outcome of a misunderstanding of orders and 
would likely have been averted only for the heavy fog which hung over 
the tracks.  Engine No. 192 which was hauling a train to Cresson, 
played out and Engineer Buck and Fireman Weakland were running it to 
the shops for repairs.  Engine 1639 in charge of Engineer Quartz and 
Fireman Kaylor and carrying Bert Eberly, a brakeman, to fill out the 
train crew was sent out from Cresson to replace the No. 192.
  The accident was reported to Cresson and a train was dispatched to 
carry the dead and injured to that place.  Buck was taken to the 
hospital at Altoona while Quartz and Kaylor went to their homes at 
Cresson.
  Anthony W. Weakland was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Weakland of 
near Hastings, Cambria county.  He was aged twenty-three years and for 
a year past had resided on Eleventh avenue, Altoona.  Besides his 
parents he is survived by his wife and one daughter, Emelda, and three 
brothers - Gilbert and Frank of Pittsburg and Henry of Altoona.  The 
remains were prepared for burial by Undertaker Lynch and interment was 
made on Monday at Hastings.
  Bert Eberly was aged twenty-three years and was a native of Loretto. 
He was married about a month ago to a young lady of Loretto who 
survives him as do also his parents.  The remains were buried at 
Loretto.
  This wreck has attracted a great deal of attention among railroad men 
as it possessed many remarkable features.  Both engines were Class H 
engines, both were running light and about the same rate of speed.  
Neither engine left the track.  The railroad where they struck was 
forced down over a foot. The pony wheels on both were ground into 
fragments.  The two engines were stripped clean of all fixtures, and so 
tightly were they wedged together that it took six engines to pull them 
apart.