OBIT: Samuel T. AYRES, 1901, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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BRAKEMAN FATALLY INJURED.
Samuel Ayres Could Not Survive His Terrible Injuries - Was Jolted from 
a Car in the Lower Yard.

  Samuel T. Ayres, of 614 Third avenue, a freight brakeman on the 
Altoona division, was fatally injured in the yard at Fourth street 
about 4:20 yesterday afternoon. Ayres, who was a member of crew 1552, 
was engaged in swinging cars down the Fourth street ladder. He went 
down track 10 on the front of a box car. A car of lumber followed him 
down track 10 after the car in front of it had been switched on to 
another track. Ayres, of course, could not see the car behind him, 
being down on the bumper. The lumber car soon overhauled the box car 
and the resulting collision threw Ayres to the track in front of the 
two cars, which passed over him, grinding off his legs between the 
knees and hips, breaking his right arm and abrading his face.
  Fellow railroaders picked him up and sent him to the hospital, where 
it was seen he could not live, so what could be done to alleviate his 
suffering was done. At 8:25 o'clock he died, his family at the bedside.
  Samuel Thomas Ayres, the dead man, was a native of Martinsburg, this 
county, and was aged about 38 years. He was a member of the Church of 
God, the Knights of Malta, Improved Order of Red Men and the Knights of 
the Golden Eagle. He was twice married, his first wife being Miss 
Elizabeth Hanley. To this union a number of children were born, seven 
of whom survive - Miss Barbara Long and G. H., of Altoona; Charles, a 
member of the Eighth United States infantry; James, Maggie, Christopher 
and Sadie, at home. His second wife was Miss Laura Richards, who, with 
one son, Rowland, survives him. He is also survived by one brother, 
Albert, of Plum Creek, and one sister, Mrs. Mary Lynn, of Roaring 
Spring.
  Coroner McCartney is holding the inquest this afternoon at Undertaker 
Lafferty's rooms.
  The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. 
Interment in Oak Ridge cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Saturday, August 10, 1901, p. 1, col. 4