OBIT: Joseph CAMPBELL, 1887, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, PA

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Shocking Accident.

  On Wednesday night of last week Joseph Campbell, son of Mr. James 
Campbell, of this city, lost his life at Bucyrus, Ohio, under the 
following circumstances: He, in company with two companions, had lain 
down on a platform near the track of the Ft. Wayne & Chicago railroad 
and all three of them were soon fast asleep.  About 10 o'clock a 
passing train struck one of the men on the foot, tearing the sole from 
his shoe, but he escaped without injury.  The same train grazed the arm 
of young Campbell with sufficient force to awake him from his slumber, 
and in his half-sleepy condition he partially raised himself from the 
platform and peered out into the darkness.  In doing so he 
unfortunately projected his head over the edge of the platform, and as 
the train thundered by he was struck by one of the cars with such force 
that his skull was torn open at the rear of the head and instantly 
killed.  A telegram informed his father of the sad affair and he 
immediately started for Bucyrus after the body, returning with it 
Saturday night.  The funeral took place at 10 o'clock Sunday and was 
largely attended.
  Mr. Campbell was favorably impressed with the people of Bucyrus with 
whom he came in contact where there on his sad mission, and their many 
acts of kindness will never be forgotten by him.  Deceased was twenty-
five years of age at the time of his death, lacking one day, and was en 
route for home when so suddenly called hence.  The stricken family have 
the sympathy of the entire community in their sad bereavement.

The Huntingdon Journal, Huntingdon, Pa., Friday, August 19, 1887