OBIT: Hannah BURKE, 1903, Broad Top, Huntingdon 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/pafiles.htm __________________________________________ Tragic in the extreme was the fate of Miss Hannah Burke, a domestic in the family of C. C. Hileman of Greensburg at the passenger station of the Pennsylvania railroad on Sunday evening. She was leaving the Hilemans to visit friends and in crossing the P. R. R. tracks waited until No. 5 west bound, had passed. When the last coach of the fast train had whizzed by she deliberately stepped in the path of east bound No. 6. She was struck fairly by the pilot and thrown seventy-five feet. Death must have been instant for many bones in her body were broken. She was 38 years old. Her home was at Broadtop, Huntingdon county. When the engine was put in the roundhouse at Altoona that night portions of human flesh and a woman's bonnet were found on the pilot. Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa., Friday, May 1, 1903