OBIT: William SHARRER, 1871, Smithfield, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by MS Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm __________________________________________ SHARRER - A CONDUCTOR OF A FREIGHT TRAIN KILLED - His Head and Feet Cut off - William Sharrer, son of Jacob Sharrer, living in Smithfield, contiguous to this borough, a conductor of a freight train, on the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad, was killed, instantly, at Fisher's Summit, on Wednesday afternoon, about five o'clock, by being precipitated from one of the cars which run over him, severing the upper part of his head and both feet. The grade being very heavy at this point, all heavy trains going south, are divided and the engine runs a section to the Summit to a siding on a down grade and returns. In this instance the section was run on the siding, under a good headway, and the brakeman on the rear end of the section plied the break severely, and brought the section to a sudden stop, which caused Sharrer to loose his equilibrium, and he was suddenly precipitated to the track, with the result above stated. He was brought to Huntingdon on Thursday, by his parents, and was consigned to his last resting place on Friday last. He leaves a wife and two children to mourn his loss. - Huntingdon Journal The Register, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, November 22, 1871