OBIT: Samuel LINGENFELTER, 1891, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ MAY RESULT FATALLY. Samuel Lingenfelter Struck by Day Express Yesterday. Some time between 10 and 11 o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Samuel Lingenfelter, of 2802 West Chestnut avenue, left his home with the intention of visiting his wife, who is attending her sister, Mrs. Maggie Nail, of Gallitzin, who is seriously ill suffering from an attack of pneumonia. He, it is though, was walking up the east bound track and when in the vicinity of the Bennington coke ovens a freight was passing on the west bound track. The noise of the freight drowned all other sounds and the unfortunate man did not hear the rapidly approaching first section of day express. It is stated that the engineer did not see the man on the track until he was almost upon him and before an attempt could be made to stop the train the accident had happened, Lingenfelter being struck and thrown over twenty feet from the track down an embankment. The second section of the train was stopped at the point where the accident had occurred. In the meantime the mangled body was picked up and carried near the track. At first it was supposed that he had been killed outright, but it was found that there was still some life in the body and he was placed aboard the train and brought to the station in this city, from which point he was taken in the ambulance to the hospital. Here an examination was made which showed that he had been terribly injured. Both legs were crushed below the right knee, the right one so badly that it was though necessary to amputate it. Besides this he had sustained two severe scalp wounds, a laceration of the right arm, fracture of two ribs on the right side and internal injuries of a very serious nature. After the mangled leg had been amputated he appeared to grow worse and the attending physicians expressed the opinion that he could not possibly recover from the shock. His condition at midnight was not improved and doubt was expressed as to whether he would survive till morning. Mr. Lingenfelter spent all his life of fifty-six years in this county, having been born in Greenfield township. He has lived in Millville for the past twenty-five years, and his long residence there has gained for him many friends, who were pained to hear of the unfortunate accident that had befallen him. He is well known through out the city and county. Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, January 8, 1891 Death of Samuel Lingenfelter. Samuel Lingenfelter, who was struck by the first section of day express at Bennington on Wednesday morning, an account of the accident having appeared in yesterday's TRIBUNE, died at the hospital at a few minutes before 9 o'clock yesterday morning, the result of the terrible injuries he had received. He recovered consciousness a few hours before his death, but in his last moments he did not recognize his friends. His only living relatives are his wife and one son, who live in Millville. The body was given in charge of Undertaker Tipton, who prepared it for burial. The funeral will take place from the deceased's residence, No. 2802 West Chestnut avenue, at 2 o'clock to- morrow afternoon, to proceed to Oak Ridge cemetery, where the interment will be made. Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Friday, January 9, 1891 The Late Samuel Lingenfelter. The funeral services of the late Samuel Lingenfelter, an account of whose death was given in our issue of yesterday, from the effects of the terrible injuries received on Wednesday morning near Bennington, will take place this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Services in the Simpson Methodist Episcopal church, to be conducted by the pastor, Rev. R. E. Wilson. Interment in Oak Ridge cemetery after the services. Our informant was in error yesterday in saying that his only living relatives are his wife and son. He leaves, in addition to his wife and son, four brothers and six sisters to mourn his untimely death, viz: William H. Lingenfelter, of Philipsburg; Richard, Albert and M. Gilds, of this city; Mrs. Margaret Downs and Mrs. Sarah Rhodes, also of this city; Mrs. Ellen Hopfer, of Portage; Mrs. Louisa Gonsman, of East Freedom, and Mrs. Alice Fish, of Philipsburg. [only five listed] Mr. Lingenfelter was born in Greenfield township, in this county, fifty-six years ago. More than twenty-five years of his life was spent in this city. Most of that time was in the employment of the Pennsylvania railroad company. For a number of years he served as one of the flangers in a department of the boiler shops. Through industry and economy he had accumulated a competence. He was a strictly honest and upright man in all his dealings. He left many warm friends, but no enemies. In early life he united with the Reformed church, of which his father was an honored and active elder for many years. This family had been wonderfully blessed with health. During a period of thirty years not a death occurred until last June, when the aged mother of the deceased died in this city. May this dispensation of God's providence be for the good of the many friends who survive. Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, January 10, 1891