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    1. [PA-SW-OBITS] SOCHER, POWELSON Aug. 21, 1915 McDonald PA Outlook
    2. Victoria Hospodar Valentine
    3. SOCHER, POWELSON While walking along the tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad about a half mile east of Hanlin Station, Walter A. SOCHER, aged 20 years, of Canonsburg and Charles E. POWELSON, aged 24 years, of Carnegie, were run down and ground to death by a train about 8:30 Monday morning. The mangled remains of the two young men, who were employed as bridge painters along the Panhandle division, were brought to the morgue of Deputy Coroner HUMPHRIES where they were prepared for burial and sent to the respective homes. SOCHER was unmarried and resided with his mother in Canonsburg. POWELSON was married and leaves a wife but no children. Taking an early morning train, SOCHER and POWELSON rode to Hanlin Station where they got off and started to walk back the tracks to a bridge, located about one mile east of Hanlin Station, which they were to paint. They stepped from a track on which a west bound freight was approaching and while watching it did not hear passenger train No. 209, also westbound, approaching on the track on which they were walking ... remainder missing

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