Posted by PBM on July 10, 19103 at 23:06:52:
Mar. 17, 1869, Vol. XXXI, No. 30
Junction, March 6th, 1869
Our little town was thrown into excitment on Tuesday of this week, by the announcement that a human being had been terribly mangled at the railroad station. A young man, named Gearhart, a resident of Scranton, and employed as brakeman on a coal train on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad, stepped from his train at the above named place, to the track of the C. R. P., and was run over by another train... He lived forty-eight hours after the accident. A young wife is left to mourn his loss.
While the above was still before our eyes, a son of Morris Bowlby, living at this place, fell from a train on the same road on the which he was employed, the cars passing over his body and killing him instantly. Deceased was 17 years of age.