OBIT: Harry T. FLECK, 1895, Blair County, PA

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A Fatal Accident.

On Sunday Harry Fleck, a son of Major Fleck, of Sinking valley, while
climbing over a fence shot himself fatally.  He had a pistol in a hip
pocket, and as he alighted on the ground the weapon was thrown from
his pocket to the earth and was discharged, the ball striking him in
the back on the left side, passing close to the region of the heart,
and then downward toward the thigh-bone.  Dr. Piper, of Tyrone, was
called and attended the young man.  The ball still remains in his
body.  According to the statement of a school teacher, who boards at
Major Fleck's house, Harry rose up from the ground after he was shot,
apparently not knowing that he was injured.  The school teacher who
heard the report of the pistol, asked him if he was shot, and Harry
replied that he was not and turned around three or four times in
search of his pistol.  Soon after, however, he felt that all was not
right, and remarked, "I am shot!"  He was then assisted to his
father's house and medical aid summoned.  He was still living at
latest accounts, but his relatives, several of whom live at a
distance, have been summoned."

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, September 21, 1880

Getting Better.

Word was yesterday received in this city that Harry Fleck, the Sinking
valley youth who shot himself on Sunday, was still alive and that
there was some prospect of his recovering.  The ball has not and
cannot be removed.  At the time the shot entered the boy's body he had
his arms raised above his head and when he dropped them it closed the
wound.  The location of the ball cannot be discovered.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, September 22, 1880

CITY AND COUNTRY.

Harry Fleck, the Sinking Valley youth who accidentally shot himself a
couple of weeks ago, is now said to be out of danger.  We are glad to
hear that such is the fact.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, October 7, 1880, page 3

Harry T. Fleck

The death of Harry T. Fleck, of 622 Bell avenue, occurred yesterday
morning at 4 40 o'clock, and was caused by peritonitis.  The deceased
was born in Sinking Valley, November 21, 1862, being the son of J. G.
and Belinda Fleck.  Leaving the farm when he reached the age of
manhood, he came to this city and entered the service of the
Pennsylvania Railroad company as a brakeman in the Altoona yard.  He
lost his left hand in an accident about years [sic] ago, and since
then has occupied the position of a switch tender.  He was a member of
the Pennsylvania railroad relief.

He is survived by his wife and aged mother, also by one sister and six
brothers as follows:  Mrs. J. W. McCarthy, of Huntingdon, and Thomas,
of Bryn Mawr, Mahlon J., of Sinking Valley; Rush A., Warren L. and
Woods J., of Altoona, and Frank L., of Genfield, Allegheny, Pa.

The funeral will take place from his late residence, Friday afternoon
at 2 o'clock.  The services will be conducted by Revs. --- Funk and
--- Hileman.  Interment in Oak Ridge cemetery by Undertaker Stevens.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, January 17, 1895, page 1