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    1. [PAWASHIN] McDonald train crash Oct. 31, 1913 McDonald PA Record
    2. Victoria Hospodar Valentine
    3. A crash not unlike that of rolling thunder, heard by a goodly number of McDonald residents shortly after six o'clock on Monday morning, was a rear end collision between two freight trains on the Panhandle railroad, about half a mile west of the station. The Dead Albert ROSEBERRY aged 32 years, of Sheraden, flagman; badly crushed about the body; died shortly after being taken from the wreckage. The Injured J. B. KING, break man; burned about the body by escaping steam; sent to a hospital in Pittsburgh. A freight train had pulled into the Jumbo mine siding and was standing near the tipple. A second train pulled in on the switch and stopped, waiting for the first to pull out. The third freight pulled in and crashed into the rear end of the second freight. ROSEBERRY, the flagman, was in the caboose of the second train when the huge engine plowed into and telescoped it. ROSEBERRY was caught under the wreckage and pinned to the ground. A steam pipe on the engine burst and before ROSEBERRY could be taken out he met a horrible death by scalding. The accident was due to the heavy fog.

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