DuBois Courier, Monday, May 23, 1949
Charles Beach Succumbs To Scald Burns Saturday In Pittsburgh Hospital
Funeral Services Will Be Conducted Tuesday For Third B. & O. Official, All Victims Of Steam Valve Explosion.
The community today is mourning the death of Charles E. Beach, 64, the third Baltimore & Ohio Railroad supervisor to succumb as the result of scald-burns received a week ago when a five-inch valve on a steam pump exploded.
Beach died at 2:15 p.m. Saturday at Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, where he was rushed Friday morning to receive the attention of specialists. His death occurred four days after Harry E. Foster, 59, superintendent of the shop and James P. Kessler, 71, fire marshal, other victims, had died.
George Person, electrician chief, the only remaining injured, was reported to be in "good" condition today in the DuBois Hospital.
Charles E. Beach, was born in Penfield on August 8, 1884, and was the son of Jesse E. and Emma E. (Lenig) Beach. He came to this city at an early age, and began his railroading career with the old B. R., & P. on April 10, 1910.
Throughout his career, he was employed as a steam fitter.
On November 13, 1913 he was married to Alice M. Luther whom he leaves along with four children, Janet B. Beach and Mrs. Dorothea Devenney, at home; Jack of Easton; Mrs. J. K. Williams, Indiana; his mother, of Narrows Creek; two sisters, Mrs. Maud Frody, of DuBois and Mrs. H. C. Davis, of Narrow Creek; and two brothers, James, of this city, and Clarence, of Falls Creek. One grandson, Gene DeVenney, also survives.
He was a member of the Trinity Lutheran church and the B. A. R. E.
Friends are being received at the Short Funeral home where funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p. m. Rev. S. D. Sigler, of the Trinity Lutheran Church, will officiate and interment will be in Rumbarger Cemetery.
Charles Beach Succumbs To Scald Burns Saturday In Pittsburgh Hospital
Funeral Services Will Be Conducted Tuesday For Third B. & O. Official, All Victims Of Steam Valve Explosion.
The community today is mourning the death of Charles E. Beach, 64, the third Baltimore & Ohio Railroad supervisor to succumb as the result of scald-burns received a week ago when a five-inch valve on a steam pump exploded.
Beach died at 2:15 p.m. Saturday at Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, where he was rushed Friday morning to receive the attention of specialists. His death occurred four days after Harry E. Foster, 59, superintendent of the shop and James P. Kessler, 71, fire marshal, other victims, had died.
George Person, electrician chief, the only remaining injured, was reported to be in "good" condition today in the DuBois Hospital.
Charles E. Beach, was born in Penfield on August 8, 1884, and was the son of Jesse E. and Emma E. (Lenig) Beach. He came to this city at an early age, and began his railroading career with the old B. R., & P. on April 10, 1910.
Throughout his career, he was employed as a steam fitter.
On November 13, 1913 he was married to Alice M. Luther whom he leaves along with four children, Janet B. Beach and Mrs. Dorothea Devenney, at home; Jack of Easton; Mrs. J. K. Williams, Indiana; his mother, of Narrows Creek; two sisters, Mrs. Maud Frody, of DuBois and Mrs. H. C. Davis, of Narrow Creek; and two brothers, James, of this city, and Clarence, of Falls Creek. One grandson, Gene DeVenney, also survives.
He was a member of the Trinity Lutheran church and the B. A. R. E.
Friends are being received at the Short Funeral home where funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p. m. Rev. S. D. Sigler, of the Trinity Lutheran Church, will officiate and interment will be in Rumbarger Cemetery.
DuBois Courier, Monday, May 23, 1949
Charles Beach Succumbs To Scald Burns Saturday In Pittsburgh Hospital
Funeral Services Will Be Conducted Tuesday For Third B. & O. Official, All Victims Of Steam Valve Explosion.
The community today is mourning the death of Charles E. Beach, 64, the third Baltimore & Ohio Railroad supervisor to succumb as the result of scald-burns received a week ago when a five-inch valve on a steam pump exploded.
Beach died at 2:15 p.m. Saturday at Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, where he was rushed Friday morning to receive the attention of specialists. His death occurred four days after Harry E. Foster, 59, superintendent of the shop and James P. Kessler, 71, fire marshal, other victims, had died.
George Person, electrician chief, the only remaining injured, was reported to be in "good" condition today in the DuBois Hospital.
Charles E. Beach, was born in Penfield on August 8, 1884, and was the son of Jesse E. and Emma E. (Lenig) Beach. He came to this city at an early age, and began his railroading career with the old B. R., & P. on April 10, 1910.
Throughout his career, he was employed as a steam fitter.
On November 13, 1913 he was married to Alice M. Luther whom he leaves along with four children, Janet B. Beach and Mrs. Dorothea Devenney, at home; Jack of Easton; Mrs. J. K. Williams, Indiana; his mother, of Narrows Creek; two sisters, Mrs. Maud Frody, of DuBois and Mrs. H. C. Davis, of Narrow Creek; and two brothers, James, of this city, and Clarence, of Falls Creek. One grandson, Gene DeVenney, also survives.
He was a member of the Trinity Lutheran church and the B. A. R. E.
Friends are being received at the Short Funeral home where funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p. m. Rev. S. D. Sigler, of the Trinity Lutheran Church, will officiate and interment will be in Rumbarger Cemetery.
Charles Beach Succumbs To Scald Burns Saturday In Pittsburgh Hospital
Funeral Services Will Be Conducted Tuesday For Third B. & O. Official, All Victims Of Steam Valve Explosion.
The community today is mourning the death of Charles E. Beach, 64, the third Baltimore & Ohio Railroad supervisor to succumb as the result of scald-burns received a week ago when a five-inch valve on a steam pump exploded.
Beach died at 2:15 p.m. Saturday at Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, where he was rushed Friday morning to receive the attention of specialists. His death occurred four days after Harry E. Foster, 59, superintendent of the shop and James P. Kessler, 71, fire marshal, other victims, had died.
George Person, electrician chief, the only remaining injured, was reported to be in "good" condition today in the DuBois Hospital.
Charles E. Beach, was born in Penfield on August 8, 1884, and was the son of Jesse E. and Emma E. (Lenig) Beach. He came to this city at an early age, and began his railroading career with the old B. R., & P. on April 10, 1910.
Throughout his career, he was employed as a steam fitter.
On November 13, 1913 he was married to Alice M. Luther whom he leaves along with four children, Janet B. Beach and Mrs. Dorothea Devenney, at home; Jack of Easton; Mrs. J. K. Williams, Indiana; his mother, of Narrows Creek; two sisters, Mrs. Maud Frody, of DuBois and Mrs. H. C. Davis, of Narrow Creek; and two brothers, James, of this city, and Clarence, of Falls Creek. One grandson, Gene DeVenney, also survives.
He was a member of the Trinity Lutheran church and the B. A. R. E.
Friends are being received at the Short Funeral home where funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p. m. Rev. S. D. Sigler, of the Trinity Lutheran Church, will officiate and interment will be in Rumbarger Cemetery.
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