OBIT: Frank WIESER, 1895, Blair County, PA

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ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT.
Frank Wieser, a Company Employe, Almost Instantly Killed.
HE WAS ENGAGED AT HIS WORK
Had Jacked Up a Freight Car and Was engaged Underneath.  When It
Slipped and Crushed Him Internally , Resulting Fatally. Etc.
LEAVES A WIFE AND FAMILY

Frank Weiser met death most unexpectedly while at work under a car on
the re-track above the red bridge yesterday afternoon about 2 o'clock.
He had raised the car with a jack and was leaning back over one of the
wheels of the truck using a hammer to knock sonne bolts out of the
centre plate when the heavy freight car slipped over and the draft
timbers striking his breast, his body was crushed against the iron
wheel.  His fellow laborers got another jack and as quickly as
possible proceeded to raise the car from the body of the unfortunate
man.  This consumed about five minutes of time.  After the car had
been raised sufficiently high to permit of his body being taken off
the wheel Wieser was taken out and laid on the ground.  The hospital
ambulance was summoned but before it arrived and in about thirty
minutes after the accident occurred Mr. Wieser was dead.  The
ambulance conveyed the remains to the undertaking rooms of R. K.
Spicer & Co., where they were viewed last evening at 6.30 o'clock by
the coroner and a jury which had been empaneled.  The jury will
convene again this evening to hear testimony and render a verdict.

The news of the sad occurrence was telegraphed to Mrs. Wieser, who had
gone to Buffalo, accompanied by two of her children, to have an
operation performed on one of her eyes at a Buffalo hospital.

Frank Wieser was born December 8, 1851, in Bavaria, Germany.  He came
to Altoona in 1884 and a short time afterwards was married to Katrina
Troidl, who, together with five children, survives him.  The children
are:  Francisca, Katrina, Frank, Mary and Henry.  The deceased is also
survived by one brother, George, residing in Milwaukee.

Mr. Wieser was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Relief and of the Maennerchor Singing society.
The funeral announcements will be made later.

Mr. Weiser's home was in Bell's extension at Eighth street.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, January 12, 1895, page 1

FRANK WIESSER'S DEATH
The Coroner's Jury Thinks he Did Not Use Proper Precautions.

The coroner's jury impanneled on Friday evening to investigate the
causes leading to the death of Frank Wiesser met at R. K. Spicer &
Co.' s undertaking room on Saturday evening at 7.30 o'clock.  Mr. Poet
had secured as witnesses Messrs. August Tromm, George Whip, Frank Pope
and George H. Bitner.  Their testimony showed that the car had been
raised too high and instead of using two jacks, as is generally the
custom in making such repairs, but one was used by Mr. Wiesser in
raising the large box car which he was working at.  When the bolts
were knocked out of the centre plate the car swung over and fell upon
Mr. Wiesser.  The men on the repair track are working under the "piece
work" system and the deceased did not take time to get another jack,
wanting to get through with his work as quickly as possible.  The
jury, after hearing the testimony, agreed upon the following verdict:
"Death was caused by the deceased not using proper precautions in
'jacking up' the car.  Had he used braces the accident would not have
occurred."

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, January 14, 1895, page 4