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- North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 12/23/1912
Frederick Voelker, 40 years old,
flagman at the crossing of the Erie
railroad and Lockport trolley line on
Young street was struck by a southbound
Wabash passenger train at
11:10 o'clock yesterday morning and
so badly injured that he died three
hours later at toe Emergency Hospital
in Buffalo.
Voelker had Just flagged a northbound
trolley car and was crossing
the Erie track, over which the Wa
bash trains run between Niagara Falls
and Buffalo, when he stepped directly
in front of the passenger train.
The flagman was hurled to one side
ot the track, unconscious and bleeding.
The train was stopped and Conductor
M. J. Nestor, Engineer David
Britt and Fireman Richard Rowling
picked him up and carried him to the
flag shanty.
Chief of Police A. F. Ellicott was
noui.ed. He took the statement of
the engineer and fireman and permitted
them to continue with their train
to Buffalo, considering them blameless
for the accident. Dr. R. H. Wilcox
was called. He had Voelker rushed
to the Emergency hospital In
Hamp's ambulance.
Voelker was unmarried, and boarded
with Mrs. Minnie Hardy of 65 Elm
street. He is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. Elizabeth Woods and Mrs. Archibald
Sylvester of Tonawanda; three
brothers Henry Voelker of North
Tonawanda, John Voelker of Niagara
Falls and William Voelker of Pittsburgh,
P.A.
Voelker's funeral will be held from
Hamp's undertaking rooms on Young
street tomorrow at 2 o'clock. Burial
will be made in the Tonawanda city
cemetery.
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1869 - 1912 (~ 43 years)