PRR Accident Proves Fatal To Altoonan
When his body touched an 11,000-volt overhead wire while he was cleaning windows on top of a cabin car, James Calvin McKinstry, 52, of 1017 Chestnut Avenue was killed in the Pennsylvania railroad yard in Harrisburg. Mr. McKinstry was a freight conductor on the Middle division.
Coroner Thomas J. Fritchey of Dauphin County reported Mr. McKinstry either touched or came too close to the wire, causing electrocution.
An employee of the Pennsy for the past 35 years, Mr. McKinstry had arrived from Enola yard with an engine and cabin car and was preparing to take 139 empty hopper cars to Altoona. The fatal accident happened near the state farm show buildings.
James Calvin McKinstry was born Jan. 23, 1900, in Lewistown, a son of James and Kate McCormick McKinstry.
A brother and three sisters survive, Ralph of Baltimore, Mrs. Harry Lutz of Altoona, Mrs. J. Howard Jacobs of Reading and Miss Mary A. McKinstry of Philadelphia. A nephew, James Moran, of California, also survives.
Mr. McKinstry was of the Methodist faith and was a member of the R. of R. T., 498, and the Altoona lodge of Eagles.
Source: Altoona Mirror, Altoona, PA, Friday Evening, October 10, 1952, Page 1
When his body touched an 11,000-volt overhead wire while he was cleaning windows on top of a cabin car, James Calvin McKinstry, 52, of 1017 Chestnut Avenue was killed in the Pennsylvania railroad yard in Harrisburg. Mr. McKinstry was a freight conductor on the Middle division.
Coroner Thomas J. Fritchey of Dauphin County reported Mr. McKinstry either touched or came too close to the wire, causing electrocution.
An employee of the Pennsy for the past 35 years, Mr. McKinstry had arrived from Enola yard with an engine and cabin car and was preparing to take 139 empty hopper cars to Altoona. The fatal accident happened near the state farm show buildings.
James Calvin McKinstry was born Jan. 23, 1900, in Lewistown, a son of James and Kate McCormick McKinstry.
A brother and three sisters survive, Ralph of Baltimore, Mrs. Harry Lutz of Altoona, Mrs. J. Howard Jacobs of Reading and Miss Mary A. McKinstry of Philadelphia. A nephew, James Moran, of California, also survives.
Mr. McKinstry was of the Methodist faith and was a member of the R. of R. T., 498, and the Altoona lodge of Eagles.
Source: Altoona Mirror, Altoona, PA, Friday Evening, October 10, 1952, Page 1
PRR Accident Proves Fatal To Altoonan
When his body touched an 11,000-volt overhead wire while he was cleaning windows on top of a cabin car, James Calvin McKinstry, 52, of 1017 Chestnut Avenue was killed in the Pennsylvania railroad yard in Harrisburg. Mr. McKinstry was a freight conductor on the Middle division.
Coroner Thomas J. Fritchey of Dauphin County reported Mr. McKinstry either touched or came too close to the wire, causing electrocution.
An employee of the Pennsy for the past 35 years, Mr. McKinstry had arrived from Enola yard with an engine and cabin car and was preparing to take 139 empty hopper cars to Altoona. The fatal accident happened near the state farm show buildings.
James Calvin McKinstry was born Jan. 23, 1900, in Lewistown, a son of James and Kate McCormick McKinstry.
A brother and three sisters survive, Ralph of Baltimore, Mrs. Harry Lutz of Altoona, Mrs. J. Howard Jacobs of Reading and Miss Mary A. McKinstry of Philadelphia. A nephew, James Moran, of California, also survives.
Mr. McKinstry was of the Methodist faith and was a member of the R. of R. T., 498, and the Altoona lodge of Eagles.
Source: Altoona Mirror, Altoona, PA, Friday Evening, October 10, 1952, Page 1
When his body touched an 11,000-volt overhead wire while he was cleaning windows on top of a cabin car, James Calvin McKinstry, 52, of 1017 Chestnut Avenue was killed in the Pennsylvania railroad yard in Harrisburg. Mr. McKinstry was a freight conductor on the Middle division.
Coroner Thomas J. Fritchey of Dauphin County reported Mr. McKinstry either touched or came too close to the wire, causing electrocution.
An employee of the Pennsy for the past 35 years, Mr. McKinstry had arrived from Enola yard with an engine and cabin car and was preparing to take 139 empty hopper cars to Altoona. The fatal accident happened near the state farm show buildings.
James Calvin McKinstry was born Jan. 23, 1900, in Lewistown, a son of James and Kate McCormick McKinstry.
A brother and three sisters survive, Ralph of Baltimore, Mrs. Harry Lutz of Altoona, Mrs. J. Howard Jacobs of Reading and Miss Mary A. McKinstry of Philadelphia. A nephew, James Moran, of California, also survives.
Mr. McKinstry was of the Methodist faith and was a member of the R. of R. T., 498, and the Altoona lodge of Eagles.
Source: Altoona Mirror, Altoona, PA, Friday Evening, October 10, 1952, Page 1
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