OBIT: Michael McGRAW, 1880, Blair County, PA

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A FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE FRANKSTOWN ORE BANK.

  On Saturday morning, Michael McGraw, Michael Fitzharris, Jerry 
Keenan, Robert Rumpting and another miner, whose name we failed to 
learn, were going into the ore mine to commence their daily toil.  All 
five were seated on an ore car or dump that is let done [down] the 
inclined plane with a rope.  Whenever half the distance the rope broke 
and, there being nothing to check the descent of the car, it dashed 
down with almost lightning speed.  All the men, with the exception of 
Michael McGraw, aged about 60 years, succeeded in getting off the car.  
Mr. McGraw was dashed against the rocks fracturing his skull, besides 
inflicting other injuries which proved fatal.  He died at 2 o'clock the 
same day.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, April 5, 1880

HOLLIDAYSBURG HAPPENINGS.

  Michael McGraw, the miner killed in the Frankstown mines on Saturday, 
was buried in the Catholic cemetery yesterday at 10 o'clock.  The 
funeral cortege was large.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, April 6, 1880