OBIT: A. P. DECKER, 1872, Huntingdon County, PA

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  Two engines collided on the Huntingdon and Broad Top road last 
Friday, causing the almost instant death of four men, and the fatal 
injuring of a fifth, about four miles from Hopewell.  The names of the 
victims are A. P. Decker, engineer of No. 17, and Lewis Coulter, his 
fireman.  Stephen McCahen and Jacob Bowser, the conductors of the 
several trains, and Jacob Reed, the fireman on No. 18, fatally injured, 
and died on Sunday.  Decker and Coulter were residents of Huntingdon.  
McCahen and Bowser of Saxton.  Hughes, engineer of No. 18, escaped by 
leaping through the window.

Altoona Sun, Altoona, Pa., Friday morning, November 8, 1872