HARRY W. BOWARD, a Western Maryland Railroad flagman, of Hagerstown was crushed to death Saturday morning in a serious freight wreck on the Western Maryland Railroad at Lurgan, a water station, near Shippensburg. The caboose in which flagman Boward was at the time and a car loaded with coal caught fire and were destroyed.
It was shortly after 3:20 o'clock when the wreck occurred. A Western Maryland local freight train that runs between Harrisburg and Hagerstown, and which is due here about 8:30 had taken the long siding a short distance east of Lurgan station. The entire train had pulled into the west bound siding and was standing at the upper end waiting for an east bound freight to pass when a Philadelphia and Reading freight train steamed into the same track and plunged into the rear of the local freight with a crush that could be heard for miles around. The manner in which Boward was injured and how he escaped from instant death will never be known. He was alone in the caboose at the time of the wreck and when extricated from among the wreckage he was in a semiconscious condition. Both hips were badly crushed, his right ankle was fractured and he was bruised and cut about the body.
Although fatally injured he recovered sufficiently to recognize the crew and just before he breathed his last he told Conductor Buffinger that he was going to die. "My time has come and I am going to die," were the last words that fell from the unfortunate man's lips. He lapsed into unconsciousness and passed peacefully away shortly after four o'clock.
From the scene of the wreck the injured man was carried to the Lurgan tower, and Dr. Koser, the Western Maryland railroad physician, was hastily summoned. He exhausted everything known to medical science to save the dying flagman, but all efforts were in vain.
Shortly after the wreck the caboose caught fire and together with a car loaded with coal was almost completely destroyed. The fire was caused by the hot coals falling the caboose stove.
The Reading engineer attributed the cause of the wreck to the absence of red lights on the caboose of the local freight. He affirmed that no lights were displayed at the rear of the train but this is denied by Conductor Buffington, of the local freight. An investigation will likely be made by the Franklin County authorities.
Boward, who was unmarried, was aged about 28 years and boarded in West Church Street. He has been on he railroad about eleven months.
The deceased was a son of James Boward, this city.
From the Lurgan tower the remains were removed to Shippensburg and prepared for burial. The body was brought to Hagerstown Saturday evening on the 5:10 train and removed by Undertaker Suter to his undertaking establishment, West Franklin St. Sunday morning the body was removed to the home of his father, James Boward, Pennsylvania Avenue. Funeral from the house Tuesday afternoon; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Source: Morning Herald (Hagerstown, MD)
Monday, November 11, 1901
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N O T E: Did not find an individual stone for him but according to the cemetery database he is buried in the plot pictured, with his Boward grandparents.
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It was shortly after 3:20 o'clock when the wreck occurred. A Western Maryland local freight train that runs between Harrisburg and Hagerstown, and which is due here about 8:30 had taken the long siding a short distance east of Lurgan station. The entire train had pulled into the west bound siding and was standing at the upper end waiting for an east bound freight to pass when a Philadelphia and Reading freight train steamed into the same track and plunged into the rear of the local freight with a crush that could be heard for miles around. The manner in which Boward was injured and how he escaped from instant death will never be known. He was alone in the caboose at the time of the wreck and when extricated from among the wreckage he was in a semiconscious condition. Both hips were badly crushed, his right ankle was fractured and he was bruised and cut about the body.
Although fatally injured he recovered sufficiently to recognize the crew and just before he breathed his last he told Conductor Buffinger that he was going to die. "My time has come and I am going to die," were the last words that fell from the unfortunate man's lips. He lapsed into unconsciousness and passed peacefully away shortly after four o'clock.
From the scene of the wreck the injured man was carried to the Lurgan tower, and Dr. Koser, the Western Maryland railroad physician, was hastily summoned. He exhausted everything known to medical science to save the dying flagman, but all efforts were in vain.
Shortly after the wreck the caboose caught fire and together with a car loaded with coal was almost completely destroyed. The fire was caused by the hot coals falling the caboose stove.
The Reading engineer attributed the cause of the wreck to the absence of red lights on the caboose of the local freight. He affirmed that no lights were displayed at the rear of the train but this is denied by Conductor Buffington, of the local freight. An investigation will likely be made by the Franklin County authorities.
Boward, who was unmarried, was aged about 28 years and boarded in West Church Street. He has been on he railroad about eleven months.
The deceased was a son of James Boward, this city.
From the Lurgan tower the remains were removed to Shippensburg and prepared for burial. The body was brought to Hagerstown Saturday evening on the 5:10 train and removed by Undertaker Suter to his undertaking establishment, West Franklin St. Sunday morning the body was removed to the home of his father, James Boward, Pennsylvania Avenue. Funeral from the house Tuesday afternoon; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Source: Morning Herald (Hagerstown, MD)
Monday, November 11, 1901
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N O T E: Did not find an individual stone for him but according to the cemetery database he is buried in the plot pictured, with his Boward grandparents.
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HARRY W. BOWARD, a Western Maryland Railroad flagman, of Hagerstown was crushed to death Saturday morning in a serious freight wreck on the Western Maryland Railroad at Lurgan, a water station, near Shippensburg. The caboose in which flagman Boward was at the time and a car loaded with coal caught fire and were destroyed.
It was shortly after 3:20 o'clock when the wreck occurred. A Western Maryland local freight train that runs between Harrisburg and Hagerstown, and which is due here about 8:30 had taken the long siding a short distance east of Lurgan station. The entire train had pulled into the west bound siding and was standing at the upper end waiting for an east bound freight to pass when a Philadelphia and Reading freight train steamed into the same track and plunged into the rear of the local freight with a crush that could be heard for miles around. The manner in which Boward was injured and how he escaped from instant death will never be known. He was alone in the caboose at the time of the wreck and when extricated from among the wreckage he was in a semiconscious condition. Both hips were badly crushed, his right ankle was fractured and he was bruised and cut about the body.
Although fatally injured he recovered sufficiently to recognize the crew and just before he breathed his last he told Conductor Buffinger that he was going to die. "My time has come and I am going to die," were the last words that fell from the unfortunate man's lips. He lapsed into unconsciousness and passed peacefully away shortly after four o'clock.
From the scene of the wreck the injured man was carried to the Lurgan tower, and Dr. Koser, the Western Maryland railroad physician, was hastily summoned. He exhausted everything known to medical science to save the dying flagman, but all efforts were in vain.
Shortly after the wreck the caboose caught fire and together with a car loaded with coal was almost completely destroyed. The fire was caused by the hot coals falling the caboose stove.
The Reading engineer attributed the cause of the wreck to the absence of red lights on the caboose of the local freight. He affirmed that no lights were displayed at the rear of the train but this is denied by Conductor Buffington, of the local freight. An investigation will likely be made by the Franklin County authorities.
Boward, who was unmarried, was aged about 28 years and boarded in West Church Street. He has been on he railroad about eleven months.
The deceased was a son of James Boward, this city.
From the Lurgan tower the remains were removed to Shippensburg and prepared for burial. The body was brought to Hagerstown Saturday evening on the 5:10 train and removed by Undertaker Suter to his undertaking establishment, West Franklin St. Sunday morning the body was removed to the home of his father, James Boward, Pennsylvania Avenue. Funeral from the house Tuesday afternoon; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Source: Morning Herald (Hagerstown, MD)
Monday, November 11, 1901
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N O T E: Did not find an individual stone for him but according to the cemetery database he is buried in the plot pictured, with his Boward grandparents.
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It was shortly after 3:20 o'clock when the wreck occurred. A Western Maryland local freight train that runs between Harrisburg and Hagerstown, and which is due here about 8:30 had taken the long siding a short distance east of Lurgan station. The entire train had pulled into the west bound siding and was standing at the upper end waiting for an east bound freight to pass when a Philadelphia and Reading freight train steamed into the same track and plunged into the rear of the local freight with a crush that could be heard for miles around. The manner in which Boward was injured and how he escaped from instant death will never be known. He was alone in the caboose at the time of the wreck and when extricated from among the wreckage he was in a semiconscious condition. Both hips were badly crushed, his right ankle was fractured and he was bruised and cut about the body.
Although fatally injured he recovered sufficiently to recognize the crew and just before he breathed his last he told Conductor Buffinger that he was going to die. "My time has come and I am going to die," were the last words that fell from the unfortunate man's lips. He lapsed into unconsciousness and passed peacefully away shortly after four o'clock.
From the scene of the wreck the injured man was carried to the Lurgan tower, and Dr. Koser, the Western Maryland railroad physician, was hastily summoned. He exhausted everything known to medical science to save the dying flagman, but all efforts were in vain.
Shortly after the wreck the caboose caught fire and together with a car loaded with coal was almost completely destroyed. The fire was caused by the hot coals falling the caboose stove.
The Reading engineer attributed the cause of the wreck to the absence of red lights on the caboose of the local freight. He affirmed that no lights were displayed at the rear of the train but this is denied by Conductor Buffington, of the local freight. An investigation will likely be made by the Franklin County authorities.
Boward, who was unmarried, was aged about 28 years and boarded in West Church Street. He has been on he railroad about eleven months.
The deceased was a son of James Boward, this city.
From the Lurgan tower the remains were removed to Shippensburg and prepared for burial. The body was brought to Hagerstown Saturday evening on the 5:10 train and removed by Undertaker Suter to his undertaking establishment, West Franklin St. Sunday morning the body was removed to the home of his father, James Boward, Pennsylvania Avenue. Funeral from the house Tuesday afternoon; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Source: Morning Herald (Hagerstown, MD)
Monday, November 11, 1901
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N O T E: Did not find an individual stone for him but according to the cemetery database he is buried in the plot pictured, with his Boward grandparents.
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