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    1. COCHRAN, BURGAN, ILI Sept. 11, 1914 McDonald PA Record
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    3. COCHRAN, BURGAN, ILI William COCHRAN, aged 42, was killed on the Wabash Railroad at Acheson station September 9. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1872. About thirty-four years ago he came to this country with his parents, locating in McDonald and had resided here since. He was unmarried. He is survived by four brothers and a sister, Alexander and Adam of McDonald, James of Denver, Colo., and Gilbert of Spring Valley, Ill., and Mrs. Susanna GRAHAM of Pittsburg, Kansas. Funeral services will be held from the Adam COCHRAN residence in Coal street today (Friday) at 2 o'clock conducted byte Rev. Dr. IRONS. Robert P. BURGAN, Jr., died suddenly last Saturday, September 5, at 3:15 o'clock, at the home of his parents in Carnegie aged 42. The deceased was well-known in this locality. His father is one of the Carnegie Coal Company with mines at Primrose and Oakdale. The funeral services were held at the family home on Tuesday afternoon. The interment on Wednesday was private. As the result of taking a dose of rat poison in mistake for medicine, Andy ILI, a miner, died at this home just outside Oakdale Saturday afternoon. It was on Thursday that ILI picked the wrong container and took a dose of the contents. He quickly became violently ill and physicians did all possible for him but were unable to save his live. The dead man was 35 years of age and leaves his wife and four children.

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