Frank Suter Instantly Killed.
Frank Sutter, a Cambria County boy, aged 28 years, a fireman for the Pennsylvania Railroad, was instantly killed at Twenty-eighty Street, Pittsburg one day last week, while working with his engine, He was under the tank changing the air from automatic to straight. The mechanism caught in some way and then let go suddenly. The brake beam flew back and struck him on the back of the head, breaking his neck and killing him instantly.
Suter was born and raised at South Fork, his parents having died when he was but a boy, and he was cared for by strangers. He was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for a number of years and lived for some time at Conemaugh. In 1891 he was transferred to the Pittsburg yards. Mr. Suter was married at Conemaugh in 1890 to Elizabeth Kelly, daughter of John Kelly, the Conemaugh merchant, and he is survived by his wife and two children, also two twin brothers and a single sister at South Fork, and one married sister – Mrs. Paul Pringle, of Conemaugh.
Mr. Kelly, the unfortunate man’s father-in-law, went down to Pittsburg and identified the remains and brought them to Conemaugh for interment.
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