Howard Carbaugh, 28, Killed When Struck by W-M Passenger Train.
Steps in Front of Locomotive Near Gettysburg Furniture Factory at 9:51 O'Clock This Morning; Both Legs Severed and Skull Is Fractured on Left Side.
HAD APPLIED FOR WORK AT LOCAL PLANT; LEAVES WIDOW
......Carbaugh is believed to have seen a shifting freight train on the rails and did not see or hear the passenger train as it approached. The noise from the machines in the furniture factory is also believed to have prevented Carbaugh from hearing the train whistle....
Carbaugh was a member of the 106th motor repair section, 28th division train, Pennsylvania National Guard unit here. He was a member of the Reformed church and also belonged to Gettysburg aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Survivors
The deceased was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William F. Carbaugh, of Highland township, and is survived by his widow, the former Miss Margaret Weikert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Weikert, Highland township, and the following brothers and sisters:
Harry Carbaugh, Taneytown road; Charles Carbaugh, near the Hoffman orphanage; Roy Carbaugh, Highland township; Mrs. Myrtle Bushman, Baltimore pike, just south of Gettysburg and Mrs. John Herr, near Round Top....
Gettysburg Times, July 30, 1935, pg 1.
Howard Carbaugh, Killed by Train, Is Buried Today
Funeral services for Howard Luther Carbaugh, struck and killed by a Western Maryland passenger train near the Gettysburg furniture factory, Tuesday morning were held this afternoon at the Bender funeral home, Carlisle street, the Rev. G. Howard Koons, pastor of the Fairfield Reformed church, officiating. Burial was made in Evergreen cemetery.
Pallbearers were Kermit Hereter, Merle Stultz, Roy Walker, Henry Trostle, Jr., Leslie Shothager and Howard Knouse.
Gettysburg Times, Thursday, August 1, 1935, pg 1.
NO INQUEST INTO TRAIN FATALITY
Dr. Edgar A. Miller, Adams county coroner, today said he will not hold an inquest into the death of Howard Luther Carbaugh, 28, of near Knoxlyn Mills, who was struck and killed by a Western Maryland passenger train in the local years, Tuesday morning.
Funeral services for the deceased will be (sic-were) held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock at the Bender funeral home, Carlisle street, with burial in Evergreen cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home this evening between 7 and 9 o'clock.
Star and Sentinel, August 3, 1935, pg 2.
Howard Luther Carbaugh- Born abt 1907 Died- 30 July 1935
Steps in Front of Locomotive Near Gettysburg Furniture Factory at 9:51 O'Clock This Morning; Both Legs Severed and Skull Is Fractured on Left Side.
HAD APPLIED FOR WORK AT LOCAL PLANT; LEAVES WIDOW
......Carbaugh is believed to have seen a shifting freight train on the rails and did not see or hear the passenger train as it approached. The noise from the machines in the furniture factory is also believed to have prevented Carbaugh from hearing the train whistle....
Carbaugh was a member of the 106th motor repair section, 28th division train, Pennsylvania National Guard unit here. He was a member of the Reformed church and also belonged to Gettysburg aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Survivors
The deceased was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William F. Carbaugh, of Highland township, and is survived by his widow, the former Miss Margaret Weikert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Weikert, Highland township, and the following brothers and sisters:
Harry Carbaugh, Taneytown road; Charles Carbaugh, near the Hoffman orphanage; Roy Carbaugh, Highland township; Mrs. Myrtle Bushman, Baltimore pike, just south of Gettysburg and Mrs. John Herr, near Round Top....
Gettysburg Times, July 30, 1935, pg 1.
Howard Carbaugh, Killed by Train, Is Buried Today
Funeral services for Howard Luther Carbaugh, struck and killed by a Western Maryland passenger train near the Gettysburg furniture factory, Tuesday morning were held this afternoon at the Bender funeral home, Carlisle street, the Rev. G. Howard Koons, pastor of the Fairfield Reformed church, officiating. Burial was made in Evergreen cemetery.
Pallbearers were Kermit Hereter, Merle Stultz, Roy Walker, Henry Trostle, Jr., Leslie Shothager and Howard Knouse.
Gettysburg Times, Thursday, August 1, 1935, pg 1.
NO INQUEST INTO TRAIN FATALITY
Dr. Edgar A. Miller, Adams county coroner, today said he will not hold an inquest into the death of Howard Luther Carbaugh, 28, of near Knoxlyn Mills, who was struck and killed by a Western Maryland passenger train in the local years, Tuesday morning.
Funeral services for the deceased will be (sic-were) held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock at the Bender funeral home, Carlisle street, with burial in Evergreen cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home this evening between 7 and 9 o'clock.
Star and Sentinel, August 3, 1935, pg 2.
Howard Luther Carbaugh- Born abt 1907 Died- 30 July 1935
Howard Carbaugh, 28, Killed When Struck by W-M Passenger Train.
Steps in Front of Locomotive Near Gettysburg Furniture Factory at 9:51 O'Clock This Morning; Both Legs Severed and Skull Is Fractured on Left Side.
HAD APPLIED FOR WORK AT LOCAL PLANT; LEAVES WIDOW
......Carbaugh is believed to have seen a shifting freight train on the rails and did not see or hear the passenger train as it approached. The noise from the machines in the furniture factory is also believed to have prevented Carbaugh from hearing the train whistle....
Carbaugh was a member of the 106th motor repair section, 28th division train, Pennsylvania National Guard unit here. He was a member of the Reformed church and also belonged to Gettysburg aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Survivors
The deceased was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William F. Carbaugh, of Highland township, and is survived by his widow, the former Miss Margaret Weikert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Weikert, Highland township, and the following brothers and sisters:
Harry Carbaugh, Taneytown road; Charles Carbaugh, near the Hoffman orphanage; Roy Carbaugh, Highland township; Mrs. Myrtle Bushman, Baltimore pike, just south of Gettysburg and Mrs. John Herr, near Round Top....
Gettysburg Times, July 30, 1935, pg 1.
Howard Carbaugh, Killed by Train, Is Buried Today
Funeral services for Howard Luther Carbaugh, struck and killed by a Western Maryland passenger train near the Gettysburg furniture factory, Tuesday morning were held this afternoon at the Bender funeral home, Carlisle street, the Rev. G. Howard Koons, pastor of the Fairfield Reformed church, officiating. Burial was made in Evergreen cemetery.
Pallbearers were Kermit Hereter, Merle Stultz, Roy Walker, Henry Trostle, Jr., Leslie Shothager and Howard Knouse.
Gettysburg Times, Thursday, August 1, 1935, pg 1.
NO INQUEST INTO TRAIN FATALITY
Dr. Edgar A. Miller, Adams county coroner, today said he will not hold an inquest into the death of Howard Luther Carbaugh, 28, of near Knoxlyn Mills, who was struck and killed by a Western Maryland passenger train in the local years, Tuesday morning.
Funeral services for the deceased will be (sic-were) held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock at the Bender funeral home, Carlisle street, with burial in Evergreen cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home this evening between 7 and 9 o'clock.
Star and Sentinel, August 3, 1935, pg 2.
Howard Luther Carbaugh- Born abt 1907 Died- 30 July 1935
Steps in Front of Locomotive Near Gettysburg Furniture Factory at 9:51 O'Clock This Morning; Both Legs Severed and Skull Is Fractured on Left Side.
HAD APPLIED FOR WORK AT LOCAL PLANT; LEAVES WIDOW
......Carbaugh is believed to have seen a shifting freight train on the rails and did not see or hear the passenger train as it approached. The noise from the machines in the furniture factory is also believed to have prevented Carbaugh from hearing the train whistle....
Carbaugh was a member of the 106th motor repair section, 28th division train, Pennsylvania National Guard unit here. He was a member of the Reformed church and also belonged to Gettysburg aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Survivors
The deceased was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William F. Carbaugh, of Highland township, and is survived by his widow, the former Miss Margaret Weikert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Weikert, Highland township, and the following brothers and sisters:
Harry Carbaugh, Taneytown road; Charles Carbaugh, near the Hoffman orphanage; Roy Carbaugh, Highland township; Mrs. Myrtle Bushman, Baltimore pike, just south of Gettysburg and Mrs. John Herr, near Round Top....
Gettysburg Times, July 30, 1935, pg 1.
Howard Carbaugh, Killed by Train, Is Buried Today
Funeral services for Howard Luther Carbaugh, struck and killed by a Western Maryland passenger train near the Gettysburg furniture factory, Tuesday morning were held this afternoon at the Bender funeral home, Carlisle street, the Rev. G. Howard Koons, pastor of the Fairfield Reformed church, officiating. Burial was made in Evergreen cemetery.
Pallbearers were Kermit Hereter, Merle Stultz, Roy Walker, Henry Trostle, Jr., Leslie Shothager and Howard Knouse.
Gettysburg Times, Thursday, August 1, 1935, pg 1.
NO INQUEST INTO TRAIN FATALITY
Dr. Edgar A. Miller, Adams county coroner, today said he will not hold an inquest into the death of Howard Luther Carbaugh, 28, of near Knoxlyn Mills, who was struck and killed by a Western Maryland passenger train in the local years, Tuesday morning.
Funeral services for the deceased will be (sic-were) held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock at the Bender funeral home, Carlisle street, with burial in Evergreen cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home this evening between 7 and 9 o'clock.
Star and Sentinel, August 3, 1935, pg 2.
Howard Luther Carbaugh- Born abt 1907 Died- 30 July 1935
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