OBIT: Charles HILLER, 1880, Blair County, PA

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ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT.
A Man Walking on the Railroad Knocked Down and Killed.

  It is a well known fact among railroad men that accidents always run 
in bunches and last night was one of the worst of its kind.  About 10 
o'clock last night a poor German laborer named Charles Hiller was 
struck and killed while walking on the track a short distance west of 
Altoona.  With three companions he was on his way to Pittsburgh.  At 
McGarvey's station Hiller ran ahead of his comrades about one hundred 
feet they supposed, as he was lost in the darkness.  A snapper engine 
was returning down the mountain and struck him, tearing the scalp from 
his head.  He was found by his comrades after they walked a little 
further along and was lying by the side of the road.  They picked him 
up and brought him to Altoona where he was carried into McCormick's 
office in an insensible condition.  His head presented a terrible 
sight, but the poor German lad, who was dying in a foreign land, knew 
no pain; he never regained consciousness, but passed away shortly after 
12 o'clock this morning.  His three companions attended him to the 
last.  The body was this morning carried to Undertaker Tipton's, where 
it will be prepared for burial.  An inquest was held this morning by 
Coroner Humes and a verdict of accidental death was rendered.  The body 
will be buried at the almshouse.  The companions of the dead boy last 
night wrote a letter notifying his parents in Germany.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Friday, November 19, 1880