OBIT: Thomas E. WATSON, 1902, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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TWO MEN KILLED

  About noon Monday, two men met death in the Altoona yards and both 
had their skulls crushed.
  W. J. Smith, a structural steel worker on the new tank shop, was the 
first man to be killed.  He was at work at the hoisting machinery when 
a tie from the track of a traveling crane, dislodged by the workmen 
moving the crane, fell about 45 feet and hit him squarely on the head.  
His skull was crushed in and he died in a few minutes.  This accident 
happened about 11:55.
  The second accident occurred about half an hour later and Brakeman 
Thos. E. Watson was the victim.  He was leaning out of an engine car 
window and when, near the place where Smith was killed, his head struck 
a piece of steel and he was instantly killed.  He was about 45 years of 
age and leaves a family.
  Smith was a native of St. Louis, 34 years of age and single.

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa., Friday, October 17, 1902