Clarion-Venango County PA Archives Obituaries..... SHAFFER, Robert E. 48: Oil City Man Believed to Have Been Killed May 26, 1932
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  Leader Vindicator 1932 May 26, 1932
  Oil City, May 26 – Robert E. Shaffer, 48, Pennsylvania Railroad brakeman, is
  believed dead in the wreck of 25 cars derailed at Protection, N.Y., 35 miles
  south of Buffalo.  The accident occurred early this morning.  He was on one of
  the box cars, other trainmen said, when the crash came.  The train was about to
  descend a steep grade and the retaining valves had been shut.  Produce and coal
  were strewn over a wide area.  Passenger trains were rerouted.  Shaffer, whose
  home was on Hoffman Ave., Oil City, leaves a wife and four children.
  
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