Lawrence County PA Archives Obituaries.....PITZER, William August 28, 1888
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  Published in the Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa. on 8/30/1888
  William Pitzer       8/30/1888      Daily Herald, Pg. 1
  
  NEW CASTLE, Pa., Aug. 28.—Owing to the failure of the flagman to put out the 
  proper signal, the second section of a freight train on the Pittsburgh and
  Western crashed into the caboose of the first section, which had stopped to 
  take water, at Bessemer station, about two miles above Mahoningtown, at 5 
  o'clock this morning.  William Pitzer, brakeman,who was asleep in the caboose,
  was instantly killed, his body being terribly mangled. The engineer and fireman 
  escaped by jumping.  The locomotive, caboose and seven cars were demolished and 
  the track badly torn up.
  
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