Blair County PA Archives News.....Welsh Child Drowned September 8, 1859
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The Altoona Tribune. (Altoona, Pa.) September 8, 1859
Welsh Child Drowned
On Friday afternoon last, a little boy, aged about two years, son of John Welsh,
living on Branch street, East Altoona, wandered; out of the house, while his mother
was doing something up stairs, and went to a well in the yard, on which there was a
loose board. As soon as the mother came down stairs and missed the child she made
search for and discovering that the well-board had been shifted she rushed to the
spot, only to find her fears realized. The child had fallen in and was drowned. The
water being near the top of the well she reached in and pulled him out and gave the
alarm to the neighbors, a number of whom came in immediately and endeavored to
resuscitate the child, but it was too late, the vital spark had fled. Mr. Welsh is a
brakesman on one of the freight trains on the Penn’a. Railroad and was from home at
the time. An inquest was held by Coroner Fox and a verdict in accordance with the
above returned. 

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Source: The Altoona tribune. (Altoona, Pa.), September 08, 1859

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