From The Bucks County Gazette
December 7, 1899:
Impaled on a Crowbar.
On Thanksgiving Day Anthony Dunlap, of Carversville, met with a frightful accident at Doylestown, by being impaled upon a crowbar at the railroad station in Doylestown.
Dunlap was employed by I. W. Closson to unload some cattle which had arrived at the depot. He started to work and after moving the car to the cattle pen so that he might unload them, he climbed upon the platform with a crowbar to pry open the door. After accomplishing this he dropped the bar to the ground and it stuck in the ground point upward. Dunlap wishing to get down also, climbed over on the fence, leaped backward and landed full weight upon the point of the crowbar, which penetrated his body for over a foot. His cries soon brought assistance and he was removed to the Railroad House. Physicians were summoned and everything done to allay the excruciating suffering of the injured man. An examination by the physicians summoned revealed the fact that most horrible injuries had resulted to the vital organs. The injured man suffered horribly and begged to be put out of his misery. The injured man died Saturday morning.
Dunlap was about forty-five years of age. During the Spanish-American war and served with Company G as a private.
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