OBIT: Unknown man, 1891, Blair County, PA

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FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
An Unknown Man Was Struck by a Freight at Union Furnace.

  Yesterday afternoon while two men, supposed to be tramps, were 
walking along the main track of the Pennsylvania railroad in the 
vicinity of Union Furnace, the eldest of the two was struck by a 
passing freight and terribly injured, he having been hit on the top of 
the head, the entire scalp being torn loose.  The injured man was 
immediately given medical assistance, but the shock had rendered him 
unconscious and the physician at that point placed him on board mail 
west and accompanied him to the station in this city, from whence he 
was taken to the hospital.  He was almost dead when taken from the 
ambulance, but by the prompt injection of stimulants and the 
application of warm water he revived somewhat, and an examination of 
the injury failed to show any break in the bone, although it was 
thought that the skull had been fractured at the base of the brain, as 
the victim bled considerably at the hose before his admission.  From 
the first it was evident that he could not recover and at half-past 5 
o'clock he died.  Besides the injury in the head, he had been struck in 
the back and the body and limbs were bruised and contused, especially 
on the left side.
  Coroner Poet was summoned and impannelled a jury of inquest, which 
after viewing the remains, adjourned until to-day when the crew of the 
train which struck the man will be present and give their evidence as 
to the exact manner in which the accident happened.  There were no 
papers or anything about the clothing that would tend to reveal the 
identity of the dead man.  From his personal appearance it is thought 
he was about 55 years of age, his hair and beard being almost white.
  It is hardly probable that at the inquest to-day his identity will be 
revealed.  The body was given in charge of Undertaker Arthur, who will 
take it to the county farm for interment, if no one comes to claim it.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, April 13, 1891