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Special to The Inquirer. The dead men are Frank Dauffer, forty-five years
old, Samuel Adams, sixty-five years old, and Joesph Runyan, forty-five
years old, all of North Sewickley. They were crushed almost beyond
recognition. Dauffer and Runyan lived a short time after the accident, but
Adams was dead when taken out of the wreckage. The man had just boarded the car at North Sewickley
stop, being en route to work here, when the freight car, suddenly
appearing around a sharp bend, crashed into the stopped interurban car and
virtually ground its way through a mass of broken woodwork and
humanity. Injured were thrown out of the splintered car and
along the tracks as the speeding freight car pushed the passenger car down
the tracks for almost one hundred feet. Three of the injured lost arms and
legs in the accident and amputated limbs made the sight gruesome as
rescuers hacked at the wreckage to release others. Six of the injured are
in the Elwood Hospital. [Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, June 24,
1916, Transcribed by C. Anthony]
Died at Pittsburg, on the 14th ult., in the 49th
year of his age, Alexander Addison, Esq.
[Source: The Centinel (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), Wednesday,
December 9, 1807, Submitted by Nancy Piper]
Funeral services for the Reverend Benjamin N.
Axmacher, pastor of the Church of St. Cyril of Alexandria,
Brighton road, will be held there tomorrow morning at 10
followed by interment in St. Michael's Cemetery. Father Axmacher died Wednesday
in St. John's General Hospital. He was 60 years of age, and had been a
priest in the Pittsburgh diocese for 34 years. He organized the St. Cyril
parish in 1924 and was pastor until his death. He is survived by two sisters,
Margaret and Nellie Axmacher and a brother, Sylvester Axmacher, all of
Pittsburgh.
[Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
January 4, 1939, Transcribed by C. Anthony]
ELLWOOD CITY, Pa., June
23. --Three persons were killed, two others were probably fatally injured,
and more than a score were hurt when a fast Pittsburgh, Harmony, Butler
and New Castle trolley freight car crashed into and telescoped a
heavily-loaded passenger car on the Harmony line at North Sewickley, two
miles north of here, today. A dense fog and conflicting signals are said
to have been responsible for the wreck.
