Train Wreck Kills 3 Crewman

Herald of Oct. 17, 1895

Passenger Train 404 on the Hollidaysburg and Morrisons Cove Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which lays overnight at Henrietta and leaves Martinsburg for Altoona at 5:25 and is due in the city at 6:40 a.m., collided at 6:30 with a water train a short distance south of Allegheny Furnace. Brakeman J. Woodring of the water train and fireman W.F. Good of the engine drawing the passenger train were instantly killed. Engineer David M. Arthur of the passenger train was fatally injured and died later. A number of other trainmen and passengers were painfully injured.

Mrs. Joseph Croft, 34, who resided about two miles south of Roaring Spring, had come to town to attend church and visit her father, Joseph M. Hite. After supper, she started to drive home, using her father’s team, in care of her brother, and when opposite the foundry in the southern end of town, the horses became frightened by the antics of a drunken man on the road. She was thrown off the buggy and died about two hours later as a result of the fall.