OBIT: Unknown HORNEY, 1872, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by MS Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ HORNEY - CORRESPONDENCE - Altoona, August 19, 1872. A boy about 12 years of age, named Horney, met with an accident which subsequently proved fatal, while attempting to jump from a moving train, a few weeks ago, at the lower end of the Yard. One of his legs, on one side, was almost entirely stripped of its flesh, the nature of which was of such a painful character as to produce lock-jaw, from which he died on Wednesday last. A few days later the hearse belonging to Mr. John Hickey, which was conveying him to his last resting place, while entering the gate of the cemetery, was upset, and although the coffin maintained the same position in which it was placed, the glass in one side of the conveyance was badly broken. The accident occured from the tongue breaking and at a point where the road slopes to one side, leaving the hearse run backward over the rough ground, resulting as above stated. The Register, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, August 21, 1872