The Evening Sentinel, March 1907 Instantly Killed Joseph Morrison Struck By Passenger Train. was Walking On the Track at Middlesex. Yesterday's Sentinel gave an account of the fatal accident on the C.V.R.R. at Middlesex, in which Joseph Morrison, a prominent farmer residing 500 yards from the warehouse lost his life. Mr. Morrison resided on the William Ahl farm and was well known. He had been to the warehouse on some business, and had seen a freight train going east. Then he stepped on the track and was going toward home, when another train, number 80, came down on the track (the new one) and just as Mr. Morrison stepped off to get out of harm's way, the engine of passenger train number 7, due here at 4 o'clock struck him. He had not heard it coming on account of the noise of the freight. Just as the engine of the number 80 train was opposite him he was struck and thrown thirty or forty feet in a ditch. Killed Instantly. Morrison was killed instantly. He was a man of fine physique weighing probably 200 pounds. Both legs were broken, both arms broken, his breast bone was crushed in, and there were numerous cuts about his head and face. His remains were brought to Undertaker Osterhout's establishment in Carlisle where they were prepared for burial. Mr. Morrison is survived by a wife and seven children, all girls, to whom is extended sincere sympathy. Tuesday, March 5, 1907 The Morrison Funeral The funeral of Joseph Morrison, who was killed on the railroad at Middlesex, will take place Thursday morning at 9 o'clock. Interment at the Bethel church, Landisburg, Perry county. ===== Judy Warner Bookwalter (Conner Crull Garland Garlin George Harglerode Kough/Koch Leighty Morrison Riggleman Smith Warner Zimmerman) http://www.ofoto.com/I.jsp?m=51270668103&n=423147537 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com