OBIT: William O'DONNELL, 1887, Mifflintown, Juniata County, PA

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

  On the 1st inst., Wm. O'Donnell, a brakeman on Mifflin Local, was so 
seriously injured by the cars, in the vicinity of the coal wharf, this 
city, that he died in forty minutes after the accident.  He was 
adjusting a bullnose on a car standing on a side track, when a draft of 
cars struck the one he was working on.  He was thrown to the track and 
the wheels passed over the lower part of his bowels.  He was conscious 
until the end and talked to those about him, bidding them good-bye as 
calmly as though he were going on a brief visit.  He was a single man, 
aged about 25 years, and resided with his parents at Mifflintown.

The Huntingdon Journal, Huntingdon, Pa., Friday, July 15, 1887