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The February 2009 edition of Maryland Life has an article I did on railroad engineer, George Askew.\u00a0 He was killed in 1903 in a tragic railroad accident on a bridge over the Elk Creek.\u00a0 What most interested me in this story was that his great-grandson, an investigator for the federal government, walked in one day with the railroad man’s\u00a0pocket watch in hand.\u00a0 Family stories had it that he was killed in Elkton, but there weren’t many details beyond that so the\u00a0relatives wanted to know if we could piece together this story.\u00a0 I said I thought so and this tragic story emerged, providing details on the pocket watch forever frozen in time at 8:43.\u00a0 It was the exact time Engineer Askew died, according to the coroner’s report.<\/p>\n\n\n

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