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Floyd Drake

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Floyd Drake

Birth
Chester, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
Death
1903 (aged 15–16)
Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Glen Gardner, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA Add to Map
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Floyd was just 16 years old and living in Glen Gardner when he and his friends went to West Portal to attend a festival. The boys missed the last passenger train for the ride back to Glen Gardner from the festival that Saturday night. The boys tried to jump onto a Central Railroad coal train passing through. As Floyd tried to board one of the cars, he slipped and fell beneath its wheels. He was taken to Easton Hospital in Pennsylvania and it is there that he died on Sunday morning.
Floyd was just 16 years old and living in Glen Gardner when he and his friends went to West Portal to attend a festival. The boys missed the last passenger train for the ride back to Glen Gardner from the festival that Saturday night. The boys tried to jump onto a Central Railroad coal train passing through. As Floyd tried to board one of the cars, he slipped and fell beneath its wheels. He was taken to Easton Hospital in Pennsylvania and it is there that he died on Sunday morning.


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