OBIT: Mrs. Ida FREY, 1916, Casselman, Somerset County, PA

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Frey, Mrs. Ida


  SON SAW MOTHER KILLED - Engine Runs Down Casselman Resident Sunday. Companion 
Badly Injured. On Sunday afternoon near her home at Casselman, Mrs. Ida Frey 
aged 47 years, was struck by a light engine and instantly killed in sight of her 
son, Robert Frey. Mrs. Etta Fromel, a neighbor walking with Mrs. Frey was also 
struck and seriously injured. The Frey's live very close to the Baltimore & Ohio 
railroad and Robert Frey had been employed as a watchman there within sight of 
his home. His mother prepared him a Sunday dinner and carried it to him. 
Returning to her home she and Mrs. Fromel were walking along the railroad. 
Because of the noise of a passing freight train, they did not here [sic*] a 
locomotive coming from the rear. The engineer of the locomotive did not see the 
women because of a sharp curve in the tracks at that point. He reversed the 
engine, but the women were struck with considerable force. Mrs. Frey's skull was 
crushed and her death was instantaneous. Mrs. Fromel has concussion of the brain 
and has been in a serious condition. The engine was stopped and the engineer and 
the son of Mrs. Frey gathered up the women, carrying them to a nearby home. Mrs. 
Frey was a widow, her husband, David Frey, dying a few years ago. Besides the 
watchman, she is survived by the following children: Amanda, Walter, Peter and 
Fannie at home, and Mrs. Daisy Barnhart, of Braddock.

Meyersdale Commercial, Feb. 10, 1916