OBIT: John WILLIAMS, 1862, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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KILLED - We learn from the Altoona Tribune that recently a colored man 
named John Williams, who had been working in that place, got upon a 
westward bound freight train with the intention of riding to Pittsburg.  
Being intoxicated, he was unable to keep his position on the bumpers 
and fell from them upon the track, in the vicinity of Kittanning Point, 
and was horribly mangled, several cars passing over him.  His remains 
were taken to Altoona and interred.

Democratic Standard, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, December 17, 1862