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Anthony Dunlevy Garden
Incident
Location: West Virginia Incident Date: Thursday, September 26, 1895
Deputy U.S. Marshal Anthony Garden succumbed to injuries sustained in a train crash near Tunnelton, West Virginia, on September 26th, 1895.
He was traveling on official business when the train he was on was involved in a collision with another train at the east entrance to the Kingwood Tunnel. The boiler of one of the trains was knocked off, causing the steam to escape. Several passengers, including Deputy Marshal Garden, suffered severe burns as a result. Deputy Marshal Garden's health deteriorated until he passed away from complications of the burns on February 21st, 1896.
Deputy Marshal Garden had served with the United States Marshals Service for two years.
Survivors
He was survived by his wife and six children.
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130 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Garden gave the United States Department of Justice 2 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Deputy U.S. Marshal Anthony Dunlevy Garden is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In DC, 453 of 1,418 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 31.9% of this state's fallen. That is 31.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At United States Department of Justice - United States Marshals Service, 43 of 313 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 13.7% of this agency's fallen.
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