OBIT: Benjamin BOWERS, 1872, Antis Township, Blair County, PA

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Fatal Accident.

  On Monday last a young man named Benjamin Bowers, son of a widow 
woman residing near Bell's Mills, was killed on the Bell's Gap road.  
This road is now completed some six miles up the run.  A locomotive is 
used in taking up the men and material, and the trucks run down by 
gravitation.  On Monday last, Mr. Ramey, the engineer of the road had 
charge of the front truck, but coming on a snow drift, or some other 
obstruction, its speed was retarded, when the second truck on which 
young Bowers was breaking [braking] at the front end, struck, starting 
the front truck ahead, but the jar threw Bowers to the ground 
immediately in front of the wheels, which passed over him, mangling his 
body in a most shocking manner.  He was a young man of much promise, 
aged about seventeen years.  His father lost his life in the late civil 
war.  This is the first serious accident on this road and may it be the 
last for many months.

Altoona Sun, Altoona, Pa., Friday morning, December 13, 1872

1870 Antis Township, Blair County census -
Margret Bowers, 55  
Alice Bowers, 16  
Benjamin Bowers, 14  
Thomas Bowers, 18