OBIT: Scott ICKES, 1878, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by MS Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ Died. ICKES - On Wednesday forenoon last Mr. Scott Ickes, who has been in the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad company at Altoona for the past ten years, while in the act of adjusting a belt in the company's planing mill number two, was caught by the machinery and so terribly injured that he died in three hours after the occurrence of the accident. His parents reside at Ore Hill, and he leaves a wife and family in Altoona to mourn their sudden bereavement. Democratic Standard, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, December 18, 1878