OBIT: David MYERLY, 1858, Cass Township, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Dave Roberts July 29, 2008, 10:28 pm Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm __________________________________________ Dreadful Accident. On Monday, the 6th instant, David Myerly from the neighborhood of Cassville, came to the Huntingdon Mill with a grist. He was accompanied in the wagon, by two daughters - one a widow, and the other about 20 years of age. About ten o'clock they left town for home by way of Mill Creek, and when near the deep Railroad cut some three or four miles below town, where the pike crosses the Road, the horses took fright at an approaching freight train and became unmanageable. One of the hands on the train informs us that the horses had been stopped before reached the crossing, and were started again, as he supposed, for the purpose of crossing the Road before the train should reach that point, but after the horses had cleared the track, they stopped and could not be moved, leaving the wagon on the track, when in an instant the wagon was struck by the locomotive, and shattered to pieces, throwing Mr. Myerley and one daughter some distance, and carrying the other daughter about a hundred yards on the cow-catcher before the train could be stopped. Mr. Myerly and his oldest daughter were shockingly mangled - the youngest daughter was severely but not dangerously injured. The three were brought back to town on the train, and at this writing, Monday evening, the father and oldest daughter continued insensible, and are not expected to recover. The company are doing everything possible for their comfort. The horses, we have been informed, were but slightly injured. P. S. - Mr. Myerly died yesterday afternoon. The oldest daughter, it is thought, may recover - she is much bruised and cut, but no bones are broken - Huntingdon Globe. (8th inst.) Tyrone Star, Tyrone, Pa., September 14, 1858 1850 Cass Township, Huntingdon County census - David Myerly, 53 Charity Myerly, 51 Martha Myerly, 9 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/