OBIT: Cyrus S. SHAFFER, 1900, Derry, Westmoreland County, PA

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FREIGHT CONDUCTOR KILLED.
Run Down by an Accommodation Train at Derry.

  Cyrus S. Shaffer, a well known freight conductor on the Pittsburg 
division of the Pennsylvania railroad was run down by Altoona 
accommodation at 7 o'clock yesterday morning at Derry, and instantly 
killed.  His train had been sidetracked at Derry to allow the passenger 
train to pass.  Conductor Shaffer stepped from his cabin to go to the 
dispatcher's office.  Just as he alighted, the passenger train came 
along and before he could get off the track he was struck and hurled 
some distance.  He was dead when picked up.  The unfortunate man was 50 
years old and resided at Derry.  He leaves a wife and six children.

Morning Tribune, Saturday, March 3, 1900