OBIT: Benjamin BAER, 1871, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by MS Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ BAER - BOY KILLED - A lad named Baer, aged 12 or 13 years, son of the late Benjamin Baer, of this city, was instantly killed on Wednesday afternoon last, by being run over by a section of eight cars as they were being switched off on to the track leading to the company's shops at the upper end of the city. We are informed that he left home on Tuesday morning, against his mother's injunctions, and that nothing was heard from him except a vague report that he had gone west. This, we believe, proved to be the case, and that he was on his way back on a freight train, which he alighted from a short distance above town, and joined another boy and the two sat for some time on the embankment until the train that supplies the shops here with coal came along, when Baer started to mount the first section in order to ride down into town, when he slipped, or stumbled, and fell immediately across the track and the whole eight cars passed over his neck and shoulders. What a warning to boys in the habit of disobeying their parents. The family seem to be fatal to accidents. Benjamin Baer, the father of this lad, died a few years ago from the effects of an accident received in one of the company's shops here, and an older brother was blown to atoms by the explosion of a steam boiler at a saw mill two or three miles from this city. - Altoona Sun The Register, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, April 12, 1871 Blair County Genealogical Society, Fairview Cemetery - Bair, Benjamin, 1857-1871