Obituary - Joseph Bruce
East Liverpool Tribune
SECTION BOSS MEETS DEATH
Under Wheels of Fast Moving Freight
Train at Industry, Pa.
As the result of fatal injuries sustained in an attempt to bard a rapidly moving freight train at Industry, Pa., at 3:34 o'clock yesterday afternoon (June 18, 1911), Joseph Bruce, aged 27 years, of Vanport, Pa., a brother of Mrs. Allen Hargreaves and Mrs. Will Stern, both of this city, died at the City hospital at midnight.
Bruce, who for many years had been employed as a section boss between Vanport and Industry, had finished his work for the day and attempted to board the fast moving freight train to return to his home in Vanport, where a loving wife and three children awaited him. Missing his hold on the hand rail of the car, he was thrown beneath the wheels, his legs being torn and mangled, while his back was seriously hurt, and his arms and chest badly bruised.
Kind hands cared for him until the arrival of the evening train which brought him to his city. He was taken immediately to the City hospital in the Sturgis ambulance. One leg had been so badly mangled that the attending physicians Drs. Hobbs and Larkins, found amputation necessary. Death relieved the suffering of the injured man at a few minutes past midnight.
Bruce is survived by his wife, three children, who reside in Vanport, and two sisters, Mrs. Allen Hargreaves of Maplewood, and Mrs. Will Stern of Wedgewood street.
The body was taken to the Sturgis morgue on Dresden avenue and prepared for burial. The remains will be shipped to Vanport, where services will be held and burial made.
The Bruce Funeral
The remains of the late Joseph Bruce, of Vanport, Pa., who died at the City hospital late Sunday night as the result of being caught beneath the wheels of a fast freight train at Industry earlier in the evening, were removed from the Sturgis undertaking establishment and shipped to Vanport, yesterday morning. Services will be held in the latter city and Interment made in a cemetery there.
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