Railroad deaths · Whiting
Elmer Brown, railroad brakeman
Contemporary source summarized
A brief 1892 news roundup reported that Pennsylvania Railroad brakeman Elmer Brown was run over and killed at Whiting’s Station.
The notice
The item said the accident occurred on a Friday and that Brown died immediately. The saved crop provides no age, residence, train number, precise circumstances, inquest, survivors, or burial information. Adjacent digest items about a Newark furriers’ combination and a Trenton firefighters’ memorial are unrelated.
Source note
The surviving newspaper crop does not show a reliable masthead, complete issue date, or page number. Names and damaged words are identified as uncertain in the text; researchers should verify them against a full newspaper image before citation.