Confluence, Pennsylvania
Lumber Company Train Wreck
June
1901
TWO KILLED IN WRECK
On a Narrow Gauge In Stewart Township. Three
Other Fatalities.
Mrs. Robert Baldwin
and John McPeck,
a workman, were killed Tuesday in an
accident on a lumber company narrow gauge
railroad in Stewart township above Confluence.
Mrs. Baldwin was the wife of one of the members
of the lumber firm of
Baldwin & McFarland. The dinkey
engine that was wrecked was a new one and was
just being tried along the track. Mrs. Baldwin
was riding down from the lumber camp having a
seat in the cab. Besides the engineer there were
two or three other workmen and McPeck on the
engine. The engine became unmanageable, the
engineer losing control of it and at a curve in
the road it jumped the track. Mrs. Baldwin was
thrown some distance, falling across a log. The
dinky topped over on her crushing her life out
instantly. McPeck was also instantly killed;
falling under the engine. The others riding on
the engine were all injured though none of them
was seriously hurt. This is the second or third
accident that has happened on the road, though
there had not been any fatalities until Tuesday.
The Courier, Connellsville, PA 14 Jun 1901
Transcribed by Dorcas
Moseley.
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