OBIT: Samuel WILT, 1862, Blair County, PA

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FATAL ACCIDENT. - On Thursday night last, Samuel Wilt, of this place,
a brakeman on one of the freight trains between this place and
Harrisburg, fell from his train and was run over and killed.  It
appears that, for the purpose of riding more comfortably, he had
placed a board diagonally across a stock car, between the slats,
leaving one end protrude over the bumper he occupied.  While passing
through the narrows, below Lewistown, it is supposed that the board
was shaken out of its place at the opposite end from the one on which
he sat, thereby causing it to tilt and letting him drop between the
bumpers.  He fell with his legs across the rail and his body on the
outside of the track.  One of his legs was crushed from the thigh to
the knee, where both legs were cut off.  He lived but a few hours
after the accident.  His remains were brought to this place on Friday
morning.  He leaves a wife but no children.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, May 15, 1862, page 3

[Listed as Simon Wilt in the May 21, 1862 Democratic Standard,
Hollidaysburg, Pa.]