FOUND DEAD ALONG VALLEY TRACKS
Sugar Notch Man Thought to Have Been Killed by Train While Walking Home
Lehigh Valley Railroad employees, early Saturday morning while walking near the signal tower at Sugar Notch, found the mangled body of a man later Identified as that of Julius Czernik, also known as Julius Swartz, aged 29, of Sugar Notch.
The body was lying along the tracks. From the position of the body it is surmised that Swartz was struck while crossing the tracks, his body being tossed to the side of the roadbed.
Railroad officials declared that the members of the crew of the train that struck Swartz were unaware of the accident. He had spent Friday evening with friends and had taken the railroad tracks as a short cut to his home.
He was a well known resident of the borough and had served as a seaman in the U. S. Navy during the war.
He is survived by three brothers and four sisters:
Anthony, Bernard, Edward, Anna, Amelia, Frances and Julia; and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Czernik or Swartz.
The funeral will be held from the family home at 118 Hillside Street, Sugar Notch, tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. Interment will be in Sugar
Notch Cemetery.
The Times Leader • 18 Oct 1920, Mon • Page 11 • (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)
FOUND DEAD ALONG VALLEY TRACKS
Sugar Notch Man Thought to Have Been Killed by Train While Walking Home
Lehigh Valley Railroad employees, early Saturday morning while walking near the signal tower at Sugar Notch, found the mangled body of a man later Identified as that of Julius Czernik, also known as Julius Swartz, aged 29, of Sugar Notch.
The body was lying along the tracks. From the position of the body it is surmised that Swartz was struck while crossing the tracks, his body being tossed to the side of the roadbed.
Railroad officials declared that the members of the crew of the train that struck Swartz were unaware of the accident. He had spent Friday evening with friends and had taken the railroad tracks as a short cut to his home.
He was a well known resident of the borough and had served as a seaman in the U. S. Navy during the war.
He is survived by three brothers and four sisters:
Anthony, Bernard, Edward, Anna, Amelia, Frances and Julia; and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Czernik or Swartz.
The funeral will be held from the family home at 118 Hillside Street, Sugar Notch, tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. Interment will be in Sugar
Notch Cemetery.
The Times Leader • 18 Oct 1920, Mon • Page 11 • (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)
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