Children
Susan Amanda Stocker
Franklin H Stocker
Sibling(s):
Herbert
E Stocker
William F Stocker
Owen Stocker
Emma D Stocker
Harrison Stocker |
Notes:
Easton Express, Saturday, November 14, 1885
Fatal Accident
A strange case of fatality, as one may term it orill-luck as
the term is applied to others, occurred last night to William
Stocker, the conductor on No. 80 Frieght train on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad. While laying at the Packeton yards and waiting
for his men to make up the train to return home again he became
somewhat impatient at the long delay occassioned in making
up the train and joined the brakemen in their work. He had
scacely made more than one coupling when, while in the act
of inserting the pin between a freight and lumber car, he was
caught by the two cars in the region of the abdomen squeezing
him terribly and inflicting internal injuries from which it
was impossible for him to recover. He was taken to St. Luke's
Hospital on a special train at 2 o'clock this monring where
his condition was made as comfortable as possible but the injuries
he had sustained were too great and death relieved him from
his agony at 9 o'clock this morning. Stocker was a man who
has had a strange experience upon the Valley road and in all
probablilty there was never been a man upon the same road who
has been so unfortunate ormet with as many mishaps as he. Upon
six distinct occasions he has received serious injuries thorugh
railraoding. He, however, clung pluckily to his dangerous avocation
until the seventh and final accident proved fatal. The fingers
of both of his hands were cut off one by one almost, yet these
premonitory warmning of the danger he was in had no effect
upon him, and now he lies silent in death, a martyr to fate.
The deceased leaves a wife and several small children.
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