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By Margaret Leidy Harner from her book One Day at a Time: A Social History of Boyertown, PA.
May 6, 1921: A woman, who has not been identified, was killed immediately and her companion, John Cummings, died a few minutes later, after the car he was driving was hit by an express train and dragged for more than a half mile before the train was brought to a stop.
Blinded by the rain, Cummings didn’t see the train approaching at the grade crossing at Douglassville, and the engineer was also prevented from seeing more than a few feet ahead by the raging storm. When Mrs. Cummings was reached by phone following the accident, she had no idea who the dead woman with her husband might have been.
More News from Boyertown
- May 19, 1884: Young Boy Leaves Home to Avoid Beating over Missing Money Rather than face another beating, ten-year-old Nathaniel Seasholtz leaves his Fableysville home and is found working in Phoenixville.
- Jefferson, Lehigh Valley Health Network Sign a Definitive Agreement to Combine Lehigh Valley Health Network begins new initiatives to benefit expanding number of communities.
