OBIT: Clarence A. SMITH, 1919, Newport, Perry County, PA
  
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  BAGGAGE AGENT WORKS TWO WEEKS; KILLED
  
  Clarence A. Smith Is Run Down by Pennsy Train at Newport Grade Crossing
  
    Working two weeks for the Pennsy as assistant baggage agent at Newport, on 
  the Middle division, Clarence A. Smith, aged 35, was run down and killed 
  yesterday morning at 9 o'clock by a passenger train.
    Smith pulled a truck over the station crossing, ready for an incoming 
  train, but stepped back on the track just as a fast train appeared.  He was 
  thrown a considerable distance and when picked up was dead.  The body was 
  prepared for burial by Funeral Director Evans at Newport.  The Perry county 
  coroner investigated.  Smith was married and resided at Newport.
  
  Altoona Tribune, Friday, January 17, 1919, 12