New Castle News (New Castle, Lawrence, PA), 26 Oct 1928 (Friday), p. 1, col. 7, p. 2, cols 7, 8.
LOCAL ENGINEER ACCIDENT VICTIM
JOSEPH J. CUNNINGHAM KILLED BY TRAIN IN PITTSBURGH STATION
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Joseph J. Cunningham, aged 52, widely known engineer of the E & A Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad and a well known and highly respected resident of the Seventh ward, met death early this morning in the train shed of the Union Station at Pittsburgh, while enroute to get a train on which to deadhead home from his regular passenger run.
Just how he came to get under the wheels of the locomotive that caused his death, is not definitely known, according to the officers of the Pennsylvania railroad, his body being found in such a position as to indicate that he probably fell under or in front of the engine of which John Popham, another local engineer, was in charge, as he sought to get to the coaches of the train.
According to the information available at the local offices of the Penn-
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sylvania Mr. Cunningham had just completed his run on the Akron-New York passenger train, his run being known as 1639 and 1638.
It was sometime around 3 a.m. when having completed his run, at the Allegheny engine house, he got on the engine, in charge of John Popham, as he had often done, to ride over to the union station. and take the passenger train, of which Mr. Pop-
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ham is the engineer, to Lawrence Junction, dead heading home until his run required his services again.
As the engine was being run into the Union Station train shed to hook up with its train, apparently Mr. Cunningham got off the engine to go back to the coaches. Just how he met his death is unknown. His terribly mangled body being found later. His body was removed to a morgue, while an investigation was started at once.
Mr. Cunningham had been a resident of the Seventh ward for twenty years and an engineer on the Erie and Ashtabula division of the Pennsylvania Railroad for twenty-five years, being on of the best known railroad men of this district.
He was a member of Mahoning Lodge No. 243 F and A. M., the New Castle Consistory, the B.P.O. Elks of this city, and the Brothrhood of Locomotive Engineers.
He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife, Mrs. Bessie Anderson Cunningham, one daughter Phyllis and one son Joseph, also one brother W.M. Cunningham of New Brighton. and three sisters Mrs. J.M. Hughes and Mrs. E.S. Syling, both of New Castle and Miss Elizabeth Cunningham of St. Petersburg, Fla.
The body will be brought to the Mahoning Undertaking funeral parlors. The funeral arrangements will be announced later.
LOCAL ENGINEER ACCIDENT VICTIM
JOSEPH J. CUNNINGHAM KILLED BY TRAIN IN PITTSBURGH STATION
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ACCIDENT DETAILS ARE NOT DEFINITE
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Joseph J. Cunningham, aged 52, widely known engineer of the E & A Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad and a well known and highly respected resident of the Seventh ward, met death early this morning in the train shed of the Union Station at Pittsburgh, while enroute to get a train on which to deadhead home from his regular passenger run.
Just how he came to get under the wheels of the locomotive that caused his death, is not definitely known, according to the officers of the Pennsylvania railroad, his body being found in such a position as to indicate that he probably fell under or in front of the engine of which John Popham, another local engineer, was in charge, as he sought to get to the coaches of the train.
According to the information available at the local offices of the Penn-
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sylvania Mr. Cunningham had just completed his run on the Akron-New York passenger train, his run being known as 1639 and 1638.
It was sometime around 3 a.m. when having completed his run, at the Allegheny engine house, he got on the engine, in charge of John Popham, as he had often done, to ride over to the union station. and take the passenger train, of which Mr. Pop-
[col. 7]
ham is the engineer, to Lawrence Junction, dead heading home until his run required his services again.
As the engine was being run into the Union Station train shed to hook up with its train, apparently Mr. Cunningham got off the engine to go back to the coaches. Just how he met his death is unknown. His terribly mangled body being found later. His body was removed to a morgue, while an investigation was started at once.
Mr. Cunningham had been a resident of the Seventh ward for twenty years and an engineer on the Erie and Ashtabula division of the Pennsylvania Railroad for twenty-five years, being on of the best known railroad men of this district.
He was a member of Mahoning Lodge No. 243 F and A. M., the New Castle Consistory, the B.P.O. Elks of this city, and the Brothrhood of Locomotive Engineers.
He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife, Mrs. Bessie Anderson Cunningham, one daughter Phyllis and one son Joseph, also one brother W.M. Cunningham of New Brighton. and three sisters Mrs. J.M. Hughes and Mrs. E.S. Syling, both of New Castle and Miss Elizabeth Cunningham of St. Petersburg, Fla.
The body will be brought to the Mahoning Undertaking funeral parlors. The funeral arrangements will be announced later.
New Castle News (New Castle, Lawrence, PA), 26 Oct 1928 (Friday), p. 1, col. 7, p. 2, cols 7, 8.
LOCAL ENGINEER ACCIDENT VICTIM
JOSEPH J. CUNNINGHAM KILLED BY TRAIN IN PITTSBURGH STATION
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ACCIDENT DETAILS ARE NOT DEFINITE
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Joseph J. Cunningham, aged 52, widely known engineer of the E & A Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad and a well known and highly respected resident of the Seventh ward, met death early this morning in the train shed of the Union Station at Pittsburgh, while enroute to get a train on which to deadhead home from his regular passenger run.
Just how he came to get under the wheels of the locomotive that caused his death, is not definitely known, according to the officers of the Pennsylvania railroad, his body being found in such a position as to indicate that he probably fell under or in front of the engine of which John Popham, another local engineer, was in charge, as he sought to get to the coaches of the train.
According to the information available at the local offices of the Penn-
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sylvania Mr. Cunningham had just completed his run on the Akron-New York passenger train, his run being known as 1639 and 1638.
It was sometime around 3 a.m. when having completed his run, at the Allegheny engine house, he got on the engine, in charge of John Popham, as he had often done, to ride over to the union station. and take the passenger train, of which Mr. Pop-
[col. 7]
ham is the engineer, to Lawrence Junction, dead heading home until his run required his services again.
As the engine was being run into the Union Station train shed to hook up with its train, apparently Mr. Cunningham got off the engine to go back to the coaches. Just how he met his death is unknown. His terribly mangled body being found later. His body was removed to a morgue, while an investigation was started at once.
Mr. Cunningham had been a resident of the Seventh ward for twenty years and an engineer on the Erie and Ashtabula division of the Pennsylvania Railroad for twenty-five years, being on of the best known railroad men of this district.
He was a member of Mahoning Lodge No. 243 F and A. M., the New Castle Consistory, the B.P.O. Elks of this city, and the Brothrhood of Locomotive Engineers.
He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife, Mrs. Bessie Anderson Cunningham, one daughter Phyllis and one son Joseph, also one brother W.M. Cunningham of New Brighton. and three sisters Mrs. J.M. Hughes and Mrs. E.S. Syling, both of New Castle and Miss Elizabeth Cunningham of St. Petersburg, Fla.
The body will be brought to the Mahoning Undertaking funeral parlors. The funeral arrangements will be announced later.
LOCAL ENGINEER ACCIDENT VICTIM
JOSEPH J. CUNNINGHAM KILLED BY TRAIN IN PITTSBURGH STATION
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ACCIDENT DETAILS ARE NOT DEFINITE
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Joseph J. Cunningham, aged 52, widely known engineer of the E & A Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad and a well known and highly respected resident of the Seventh ward, met death early this morning in the train shed of the Union Station at Pittsburgh, while enroute to get a train on which to deadhead home from his regular passenger run.
Just how he came to get under the wheels of the locomotive that caused his death, is not definitely known, according to the officers of the Pennsylvania railroad, his body being found in such a position as to indicate that he probably fell under or in front of the engine of which John Popham, another local engineer, was in charge, as he sought to get to the coaches of the train.
According to the information available at the local offices of the Penn-
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sylvania Mr. Cunningham had just completed his run on the Akron-New York passenger train, his run being known as 1639 and 1638.
It was sometime around 3 a.m. when having completed his run, at the Allegheny engine house, he got on the engine, in charge of John Popham, as he had often done, to ride over to the union station. and take the passenger train, of which Mr. Pop-
[col. 7]
ham is the engineer, to Lawrence Junction, dead heading home until his run required his services again.
As the engine was being run into the Union Station train shed to hook up with its train, apparently Mr. Cunningham got off the engine to go back to the coaches. Just how he met his death is unknown. His terribly mangled body being found later. His body was removed to a morgue, while an investigation was started at once.
Mr. Cunningham had been a resident of the Seventh ward for twenty years and an engineer on the Erie and Ashtabula division of the Pennsylvania Railroad for twenty-five years, being on of the best known railroad men of this district.
He was a member of Mahoning Lodge No. 243 F and A. M., the New Castle Consistory, the B.P.O. Elks of this city, and the Brothrhood of Locomotive Engineers.
He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife, Mrs. Bessie Anderson Cunningham, one daughter Phyllis and one son Joseph, also one brother W.M. Cunningham of New Brighton. and three sisters Mrs. J.M. Hughes and Mrs. E.S. Syling, both of New Castle and Miss Elizabeth Cunningham of St. Petersburg, Fla.
The body will be brought to the Mahoning Undertaking funeral parlors. The funeral arrangements will be announced later.
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