OBIT: Samuel BLACK, 1881, formerly of Blair County, PA

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Mysterious Fatal Accident.

  Samuel Black, formerly of Claysburg, this county, but recently 
employed as miller at the Spring Meadow, Bedford county mills owned by 
Dr. S. G. Statler, and located about twelve miles northwest of Bedford, 
met with a horrible death on Monday last between the hours of four and 
five o'clock P.M., by having been caught in some belting in the mill.  
Mr. Black was alone in the mill at the time the accident occurred, and 
the way in which he became entangled in the belting must forever remain 
an impenetrable mystery.  When Mr. Black was found life was extinct.  
The deceased was aged about thirty-five years, and leaves a wife and 
five children, the youngest of which is but a couple of weeks old.

 Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, May 19, 1881