OBIT: James CARTER, 1880, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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FATAL ACCIDENT.
James Carter Dies from Injuries Received in the Shops.

  On Saturday morning James Carter, a son of Thomas Carter, and an 
employe in the railroad shops, met with a strange accident which proved 
fatal in about three hours.  He was engaged on a platform about five 
feet above the ground, that is situated near the foundry.  This 
platform is covered with car wheels, and Carter, with a number of 
others, was engaged in rolling the wheels on to a platform car.  He was 
very expert at it and is supposed to have become a little careless.  
Presently a wheel turned and was about to fall to the ground.  It 
caught his foot, throwing him head foremost down to the ground.  One 
leg fell across the rail of the car track and the wheel struck his leg 
right over the track with such force as to cut it almost off.  It then 
fell forward on to his breast.  The young man was picked up and carried 
to the physician's office, but never rallied and died in a short time.  
He knew that he would not get better and had his friends called around 
him, all of whom he bid farewell.  These wheels are very heavy, 
weighing over five hundred pounds each, and it requires considerable 
skill for one man to throw one on its flange and roll it into a car.  
The body of the young man was taken to his late residence on Twelfth 
avenue and Seventeenth street.  The funeral will take place at 8 
o'clock this morning from St. John's church.  James was very highly 
spoken of by his companions and employers.  Sober, steady and obliging, 
all speak a good word for poor Jimmy, who met such a terrible death in 
early life.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, May 10, 1880