OBIT: William C. FLAGLE, 1891, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, PA

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Was Instantly Killed.

Special to the TRIBUNE.
  HUNTINGDON, Pa., April 10. - One of the most shocking of the many 
recent railroad fatalities in this place occurred this morning soon 
after midnight.  The victim was William C. Flagle, aged 21, son of 
Josiah Flagle, who resides at Eighth and Washington street, in West 
Huntingdon.  With several companions, young Flagle had gone to 
Lewistown yesterday morning, and in the evening boarded a west-bound 
freight train on his homeward trip.  On reaching the Thirteenth street 
crossing, Flagle jumped from the train to the plank crossing, but 
scarcely had his feet touched the boards until eastern express, just 
then passing and which he failed to observe, struck him, hurling him 
over a box car on a siding into the canal bed below, a distance of 
forty feet.  His neck was broken and as was also his right leg in two 
places, and the upper portion of his body was bruised and battered 
terribly.  His death was instantaneous.  The remains were removed to 
the residence of his parents, from which the interment will take place 
to-morrow at 3 o'clock.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, April 11, 1891