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    1. PEEL, ROY, BRADENBARG, FOY, GUNDLACH, LALLANCE, HAWKINS, KELLEY, SAIX, MULA 5-2-1902 McDonald Record
    2. Victoria Hospodar Valentine
    3. PEEL, ROY, BRADENBARG, FOY, GUNDLACH, LALLANCE, HAWKINS, KELLEY, SAIX, MULA Ripped page. ______ PEEL of Champion, died at the ____nn hospital early Sunday morning, the result of injuries sustained on ____day night at 11 o'clock. PEEL, who was a coal miner, was walking along the ----ing that leads to his home back of Champion mine, where he was over taken by a freight train on the trestle and run over. Taken to the hospital, ... his right leg was amputated; he died 20 minutes after the operation. The dead man was well known in this vicinity, having lived about here eight years. He was born in England April *9, 1863, and came to this country with his parents when five years old. He is survived by a wife and four children, Edward, aged 18, Kate 17, Blanche 12, and a 14 months-old baby boy, besides a brother, J. E. PEEL, formerly manager of the Federal Supply store here but now .... Carnegie, and a sister, Mrs. William .RRAR, of Midway. The deceased was a member of the local lodge Knights of .... ....n Eagle. Funeral services were held at the home Wednesday afternoon conducted by Rev. W. D. IRONS, D. D. Interment took place at Candor. The body of Thomas ROY, aged 60, of Burgettstown, was found on the Panhandle tracks between that place and Sturgeon last Sunday morning. The unfortunate man had evidently been struck by a train Saturday night and instantly killed. The shock of her husband's death was so great to Mrs. ROY that her 000in danger. He also leaves several ... children Mrs. BRADENBARG, a widow aged 74 years, died at Bishop on Saturday night, April 26, 1902. She is survived by one son, her husband having died years ago. The funeral was on Monday. Interment at Arlington. James FOY, a miner aged about 45, died Wednesday afternoon at his home and Gladden. His wife and several children survive him. He was a member of the Hibernians. Funeral was this morning with mass at St. Patrick's church, Noblestown. Charles, the youngest son of Charles GUNDLACH, a well-known farmer of near Hickory, died at West Penn hospital on Monday evening about 11 o'clock, of bowel obstruction. He had been at the hospital a few hours when death came. The deceased was 16 years old and is survived by his parents, one brother, Henry and one sister, Mrs. Herman BRINKMAN. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon. The interment was at Mt. Prospect cemetery. David LALLANCE, aged 27, died at the home of his brother-in-law, Thomas WOLFE, Gladden station, Sunday morning, April 27, 1902 of peritonitis. The deceased is survived by his mother, at Syracuse, Oh., three brothers, Curtis of Gladden, Addison and Jacob of Syracuse, also five sisters; Mrs. S. H. BLAIR of Houstonville, Mrs. Alex MCDONALD, of Station street, McDonald, Mrs. Thomas WOLF of Gladden station, Miss Lizzie LALLANCE, McDonald, and Miss Eva LALLANCE, Gladden. The remains were taken to the home of his mother, where the funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon. Interment at Syracuse, Ohio. *Compiler's note: The surname of one sister is spelled both WOLF and WOLFE in the original obit. Albert HAWKINS, a well-known young man of Laurel Hill and a son of James HAWKINS, died of typhoid fever and pneumonia on Tuesday afternoon, April 29, 1902, at 4 o'clock. He was born in County Durham, England, January 8, 1881, and came to Philadelphia with is parents on July 4, 1888. In 1894 they moved to McDonald and have lived here ever since. The deceased was employed by the Panhandle railroad as a brakeman for the past three years. He is survived by his parents, one brother, Charles, and two sisters, Mrs. Polly CARNIS and Mrs. Elizabeth Jane COLLIER, all of Laurel Hill. Funeral services were held at the home yesterday afternoon by Rev. W. D. IRONS, D. D. The interment took place at Arlington cemetery. Ex-Burgess L. H. KELLEY Dead S. S. JOHNS received a telegram early Sunday morning stating that Levi H. KELLEY had died at Newcomerstown, O., Saturday evening at half past eleven. He had been ill of pneumonia less than a week. The deceased left a wife and four children. His mother was a cousin of the late Mrs. S. S. JOHNS. Coming from Quaker stock he was also related to the JEWETTS, the people that built the Panhandle railroad. It was some time toward the close of the eighties that he came to McDonald and worked about the station in various capacities. Genial and kind to a fault he made many friends. In 1892 he was elected burgess of the town, and up to the time of his removal from her in 1896 he was identified with the borough's interests in various capacities, being a school director, on the board of health and its president at different times. Brilliant and of a generous disposition he could refuse no one a favor and was his own worst enemy. Of late he was in the car construction department of the Pennsylvania railroad at Trinway, O., but made his home at Newcomerstown from where he was taken to Waynesville, on the other side of Columbus, for burial on Monday afternoon. Cyrus FURGUSON, A. C. FORINGER, and P. L. COULTER, who intended to attend the funeral, did not succeed in having the fast train stopped Sunday evening and therefore could not go. John, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry SAIX, on Fannie street, was found dead in bed at seven o'clock Wednesday morning to the great grief of its parents. It was a strong, healthy child and the coroner was summoned. After hearing Dr. LAROSS's opinion, and viewing the body he found it unnecessary to summon a jury, the child having died of natural causes. Funeral services were held at the house by Rev. W. D. IRONS yesterday afternoon and interment took place at Arlington. High Wind Fatality, An Oil Derrick is Blown Down Upon a Number of Italians Near Venice, Killing One of Then. Gasper MULA, an Italian laborer, was instantly killed about noon Saturday at Venice by an oil derrick, which was blown upon him and some companions by the high winds which prevailed hereabouts. MULA and his companions had been working on the new Wabash railroad and a few minutes before the accident had quit work for dinner but as the wind was blowing dust, they could not eat in the open and had taken refuge behind an oil well engine, near oil derrick No. 4 on Sterling heir's farm belonging to the Philadelphia Gas company, just finished Friday. While they were eating the wind lifted the derrick from its foundation and it came down upon them, crushing MULA's skull, killing him instantly, and slightly wounding another man. MULA had only been in this country four months and leaves a wife and four children in Italy. He was buried in Venice cemetery Sunday.

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