Claim of Fairchild v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Howard, J.:

This is a death claim. In some parts of the record William Fairchild, the deceased, is styled a brakeman, and in other places he is called a switchman. But whatever he may have been styled he was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at its terminal in New York city, and as such was, on August 25, 1914, attempting to uncouple two cars from a train when there was some sort of an explosion of electricity, which is not very well explained and is not material, and Fair-child was killed. The train which the deceased was breaking apart was a local Long Island train. It was…