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Snyder, Joe newsclip 3 Killed, Train anc Kevin Spring p1

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Three Killed
Train Hits
Crossing In
ALLEGANY - Instant death came to Joseph W. Snyder, sixty years of age, Donald Bovaird, eleven, and Donald Dentler, nine, all of Allegany, when a truck in which they were riding was struck on the Fifth Street crossing of the Erie Railroad in Allegany by an east bound special passenger train late Tuesday afternoon. The truck was completely demolished by the collision which also derailed the pony trucks of the locomotive of the train.
The accident occurred at three (15:45h) as Mr. Snyder, one of the proprietors of the Snyder and Grandusky Feed Mill in Allegany, was driving the truck on Fifth Street to a car of feed on the Erie siding which he was engaged in unloading. The two boys had asked to ride on the truck with him. His fondness for children led him many times to take boys riding with him on the short trips between the railroad station and the feed mill.

INVESTIGATION FOLLOWS
There were no withnesses to the accident and Coroner C.J. Hosmer, in rendering a verdict of accidental death, after investigating the case with State Trooper D.H. Chamberlain of the Allegany sub-station, said today that the clear and unobstructed view of the railroad track on each side, together with Mr. Snyder's familiarity with the spot made the cause of the

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