Elbridge B. Irwin

The Clearfield Progress, Clearfield, Pa., Tuesday Evening, March 2, 1920

Elbridge Irwin died suddenly at the Clearfield Hospital last evening about 9:45. The deceased, will be remembered, was struck by a freight train near the mouth of the Fulton tunnel on the Rever Line, Monday morning, February 16th. He had been employed as tunnel watchman and was on his way through the tunnel when he misjudged the speed of the train following him through, and was struck by the bumper of the engine, just as he stepped from the track. He was quite severely inured, suffering a fracture of the pelvic bone and numerous cuts and bruises about the head and body.

He was at once removed to the Clearfield Hospital and appeared to be getting along finely. When his brother Paul and the attending physician visited him yesterday, he expressed himself as being in fine shape and looked forward to getting up and about soon. When the nurses approached his bed last night, she found him dead, the end having come suddenly and without warning.

Elbridge Irwin was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs William T. Irwin, and was born in Lawrence township October 30, 1860, and spent almost his entire life in this section. He followed lumbering for many years and was an upright, industrious man, and a good citizen at all times. He was unmarried and is survived by two brothers and two sisters, viz: Thurston W. Irwin and Mrs. William B. Kyler, of Goshen township; Mrs. W. T. Spackman and Paul Irwin, of Clearfield.

The funeral will occur Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, from the home of his sister, Mrs. W. T. Spackan and interment will be made in Hillcrest cemetery.