Hurried Into Eternity: Killed by the Train in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Over 116 people killed by trains are in St. Michael's Cemetery


Hurried Into Eternity : Killed by the Train in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania - Amazon Paperback – June 5, 2023
by Rosemary Buffington (Author)

For many years, Rosemary Buffington has studied St. Michael's Cemetery, burial site of laborers of the Industrial Revolution in historic South Bethlehem of the Lehigh River Valley, in Pennsylvania. what ignited her passion was the discovery of her own immigrant ancestors buried there.

In local newspaper stories of the 1860s-1920s, she found unrelenting notices of people who died on train tracks, and discovered more than 115 of them were buried in St. Michael's .... and that was just one local cemetery.

This compendium of mewspaper clippings illustrates the unvarnished descriptions of people who lost their lives trespassing between two busy freight and passenger railroad lines that passed directly through Souith Bethlehem, and the response of government and gilded-age company management.

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