Woman's Body is Discovered on Railroad
Mrs.
John Duby, Wheatland, meets tragic fate at Farrell. Believed to have
been killed by a southbound Erie freight train at 5:30 am today, the
mangled body of Mrs. Mary Clark Duby, 39, wife of John Duby of 36
Shenango St. Wheatland was found on the railroad tracks near the
American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. coal pile opposite Hamilton Ave.
& Broadway by William Reese an employee of the company while in
route to work at 6:50 am. Both legs were severed at the hip.
Reese
notified Paul Purash, watchman at the AS&TP Co. plant who called
Farrell police, Dr. W. A. Applegate, county Coroner, was summoned and
pronounced a verdict of accidental death.
Mrs. Duby was born in
Jacksonville, Fl. the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Richard Clark. Besides
her husband she is survived by an adopted son. (Charles Francis
Hughes).
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 am tomorrow
form the Pustinger Funeral Home, Fruit Ave. Farrell. Interment will be
in Oakwood Cemetery.
The Sharon Herald, July 20,1933. Submitted by Teresa
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