OBIT: Louis KIRCHENSTEINER, 1915, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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Kirchensteiner, Louis

TRACK WALKER INSTANTLY KILLED, Louis Kirchensteiner of Meyersdale Hurled Thirty 
Feet by Engine While Performing His Duties at Sand Patch. Was Excellent Citizen, 
Husband and Father. Louis Kirchensteiner, a track walker on the B. & O. railroad 
and whose home is at the farther end of Keystone Street, this place was killed 
on Monday afternoon at three o'clock at Sand Patch, being struck by a light 
engine. He was hurled perhaps thirty feet of the engine and then run over. He 
was brought to Meyersdale but he died about twenty minutes after the accident 
occurred. The remains were given in charge of Undertaker Reich. The unfortunate 
man just preceding the coming of the engine was tightening bolts beneath the 
bridge that crosses the several tracks at Sand Patch and had stepped out of the 
way of one train and over on to the track upon which the empty engine was 
coming, it being run backwards. While his face and head were not badly mangled, 
his limbs were fractured in several places and his body was badly bruised. Mr. 
Kirchensteiner was born in Germany and when a young man came to this country. He 
has been living in this section for about 15 years. Those who knew him 
appreciated his companionable qualities and his whole-heartedness. He was 
characteristically thrifty, having provided a home for his family consisting of 
the wife and five children, the eldest of whom is 12 years old and though his 
salary was small he was planning on laying a little aside each month. His widow 
will receive $1,000 from the railroad relief fund. Funeral services were 
conducted on Wednesday forenoon by Rev. E. K. Hostetler and interment was made 
in the Union Cemetery.

Meyersdale Commercial, Oct. 28, 1915