A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Tioga http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1700 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52303 Submitted by: Barbara Article Title: The Wellsboro Agitator Article Date: May 13 1884 Article Description: Fatal Accident at Covington Article Text: Fatal Accident at Covington. Mr. John Wilson Run Over and Instantly Killed by the Cars. Last Friday afternoon Mr. John Wilson, a prominent and well-to-do farmer living at Covington was run over by a freight train and instantly killed about half way between Blossburg and Covington. His body was terribly mangled. For some months Mr. Wilson has been ill and the loss of $4,000 of his own and $8,000 of his wife's money by the failure of the Tioga bank, coming as it did while his health was broken weighed upon his mind and made his despondent. On Friday morning Mr. Wilson went to Blossburg with his brother Daniel, and on the way home they stopped at Grant & Co.'s saw-mill. Here he left his brother and went upon the hill. Soon after the freight train going north went by, it being broken in two parts with some distance between the sections. The engineer did not see Mr. Wilson, but after the last section of the train had passed his dead body was seen on the track by the train hands in the caboose. It is believed that he attempted to cross the track near the sharp curve known as Red rock after the first section of the train had passed, when he was overtaken by the second section and killed. There is no reason to believe that his death was other than accidental. Mr. Wilson was about fifty-six years of age, and his family were among the oldest and most respected residents of Covington township. He leaves a wife and one son grown to manhood. The funeral was held on Sunday, Rev. S. F. Mathews, of this borough, officiating, and nearly a thousand of Mr. Wilson's acquaintances and friends were in attendance. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com