NEWS: Altoona Sun, May 1, 1874, Indiana Co Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja :jbanja@comcast.net Copyright 2004. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/indiana/ ________________________________________________ THE OLD STORY. - On last Wednesday six men were killed outright and one seriously injured in this vicinity on the Pennsylvania railroad. The first one the list was an unknown tramp who was walking on the track, near Huntingdon, run over and instantly killed by a passing train. On the same day Amos and Jacob Pardee, P. S. Irwin and W. W. Irwin, bothers, and Jacob Bowden, all residing near the Cherrytree, were walking on the track between Gallitzin and Cresson. Noticing a freight train approaching they stepped on to the other track to avoid it just in time to be hit by the pilot of the Pacific Express which had approached them in their rear undiscovered, killing four of them outright, W. W. Irwin escaping with a broken leg and other injuries. Bowden was the only one of the number who was married. These persons were returning from a trip down the river with lumber, and had left the accommodation train at Gallitzin to walk across the country, but finding the snow too deep returned to Gallitzin and started on foot for Cresson, intending at the latter place to take the Ebensburg train. Altoona Sun, Friday, May 1, 1874