J.W. Arvin Meets Death While at Work – Thrown From Engine at Brunswick and Crushed – No Witnesses of Accident – J.W. Arvin was found dead along the fire track at the south side of the coal chute, in the Brunswick year, Tuesday evening shortly after seven o'clock, his hips and abdomen being badly crushed. No one saw the accident in which Mr. Arvin met his death, and for that reason it will probably never be known just how it happened.
Mr. Arvin was working at cleaning fronts, which made it necessary for him to climb up on the front of the locomotives. It is supposed that while he was upon the front of engine no. 538 he was thrown to the track and the engine went over the body, the remains being round in the ash pit beneath the track.
As soon as the body was found the company surgeons were summoned but life was extinct and nothing could be done. The remains were removed to the undertaking establishment of C.H. Feete and Brother and there prepared for burial.
Mr. Arvin would have been 54 years old on December 24. He had been in the employ of the B&O Railroad for about 27 years. He had worked as a fireman and then as an engineman. For the past nine, however, he had been working at the fire track.
His widow and the following children survive: Albert, Lloyd, Charles, Utica, Levin, Irene and Clarence. Two brothers, Frank and Lee Arvin also survive.
The funeral will take place on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock with services at the house conducted by Rev. C.W. Hess. Interment will be in Park Heights Cemetery.
Source: The News (Frederick, MD)
November 3, 1915
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Mr. Arvin was working at cleaning fronts, which made it necessary for him to climb up on the front of the locomotives. It is supposed that while he was upon the front of engine no. 538 he was thrown to the track and the engine went over the body, the remains being round in the ash pit beneath the track.
As soon as the body was found the company surgeons were summoned but life was extinct and nothing could be done. The remains were removed to the undertaking establishment of C.H. Feete and Brother and there prepared for burial.
Mr. Arvin would have been 54 years old on December 24. He had been in the employ of the B&O Railroad for about 27 years. He had worked as a fireman and then as an engineman. For the past nine, however, he had been working at the fire track.
His widow and the following children survive: Albert, Lloyd, Charles, Utica, Levin, Irene and Clarence. Two brothers, Frank and Lee Arvin also survive.
The funeral will take place on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock with services at the house conducted by Rev. C.W. Hess. Interment will be in Park Heights Cemetery.
Source: The News (Frederick, MD)
November 3, 1915
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J.W. Arvin Meets Death While at Work – Thrown From Engine at Brunswick and Crushed – No Witnesses of Accident – J.W. Arvin was found dead along the fire track at the south side of the coal chute, in the Brunswick year, Tuesday evening shortly after seven o'clock, his hips and abdomen being badly crushed. No one saw the accident in which Mr. Arvin met his death, and for that reason it will probably never be known just how it happened.
Mr. Arvin was working at cleaning fronts, which made it necessary for him to climb up on the front of the locomotives. It is supposed that while he was upon the front of engine no. 538 he was thrown to the track and the engine went over the body, the remains being round in the ash pit beneath the track.
As soon as the body was found the company surgeons were summoned but life was extinct and nothing could be done. The remains were removed to the undertaking establishment of C.H. Feete and Brother and there prepared for burial.
Mr. Arvin would have been 54 years old on December 24. He had been in the employ of the B&O Railroad for about 27 years. He had worked as a fireman and then as an engineman. For the past nine, however, he had been working at the fire track.
His widow and the following children survive: Albert, Lloyd, Charles, Utica, Levin, Irene and Clarence. Two brothers, Frank and Lee Arvin also survive.
The funeral will take place on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock with services at the house conducted by Rev. C.W. Hess. Interment will be in Park Heights Cemetery.
Source: The News (Frederick, MD)
November 3, 1915
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Mr. Arvin was working at cleaning fronts, which made it necessary for him to climb up on the front of the locomotives. It is supposed that while he was upon the front of engine no. 538 he was thrown to the track and the engine went over the body, the remains being round in the ash pit beneath the track.
As soon as the body was found the company surgeons were summoned but life was extinct and nothing could be done. The remains were removed to the undertaking establishment of C.H. Feete and Brother and there prepared for burial.
Mr. Arvin would have been 54 years old on December 24. He had been in the employ of the B&O Railroad for about 27 years. He had worked as a fireman and then as an engineman. For the past nine, however, he had been working at the fire track.
His widow and the following children survive: Albert, Lloyd, Charles, Utica, Levin, Irene and Clarence. Two brothers, Frank and Lee Arvin also survive.
The funeral will take place on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock with services at the house conducted by Rev. C.W. Hess. Interment will be in Park Heights Cemetery.
Source: The News (Frederick, MD)
November 3, 1915
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