DEATHS: Inquests, 1898, Altoona Mirror, December 28, 1898, Blair County, PA

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THE YEAR'S INQUESTS.

Coroner McCartney Was a Busy Man During the Past Twelve Months.

  During the year 1898 Coroner McCartney investigated the deaths of eighty-
seven persons, as follows:

  January 3 - Frank Corregan, death caused by an accidental discharge of a 
gun in the hands of Joseph Fonner, at Carlem.
  January 7 - George W. Heverly, Tyrone; death caused by a pistol shot fired 
by his own hand during temporary insanity.
  March 15 - Patrick Tighe, Altoona; death resulted from natural causes.
  April 5 - William Alcorn, Altoona; death caused by being crushed between 
cars in Altoona yard.
  April 19 - George Detwiler, Huston township; death resulted from natural 
causes.
  April 27 - Robert Barber, Altoona; death caused by a wound from a 38-
calibre revolver fired by the hand of Walter Clark, alias Roving Jack, at 
Tunnel Hill, April 27; Clark fired three times.
  May 15 - W. H. Wertz, Altoona; death caused by being struck by a stone 
thrown from a blast in the Logan township stone quarry.
  May 12 - Frank McClelland, Fostoria; death resulted from a knife wound 
inflicted by a companion, William Hilliard.
  May 20 - Willian Wilson, Altoona; death resulted from his coming in contact 
with a live guy wire of the Electric Light company.
  May 21 - Illegitimate child of Ida Kustaborder, of Bellwood; death resulted 
from unskilled treatment at birth.
  June 18 - Charles Romig; death resulted from over-exertion brought about by 
alcoholism; died at Altoona hospital.
  July 15 - Charles Blamey, Altoona; death caused by strangulation; he had 
gotten his head under a sliding door at the stable of J. Burke, at Sixth 
alley and Third street, which held him fast.
  August 2 - James Brett, Bennington; death caused by intoxication.
  August 5 - Unknown man instantly killed at Bellwood while crossing the 
Pennsylvania railroad by being struck by Atlantic express.
  September 16 - Solomon B. Barnes, Altoona; died from injuries received in 
an accident in a running horse race at the Blair county fair.
  September 26 - Samuel Elpern, Altoona; death caused by being run over by 
wagon No. 1 of the Pennsylvania railroad company, at the corner of Thirteenth 
avenue and Eighteenth street.
  October 24 - Mrs. Jennie Simpson, Altoona; death caused by consumption and 
not having proper care.

  List wherein inquests by coroner's jury were deemed unnecessary.

  January 8 - Stephen Warso, death resulted from being run over by a train of 
cars near Cresson on January 7, died at the Altoona hospital on January 8, at 
5 p.m.
  January 9 - Emmet Robison, Altoona; death caused by convulsions.
  January 12 - William A. Johnston, instant death, caused by being struck by 
locomotive of Atlantic express, one mile west of Tipton.
  January 18 - Albert E. Myers, run over by an engine on the Pennsylvania 
railroad at Fourth street, Altoona, January 17, died at Altoona hospital on 
January 18.
  February 11 - William Lutz, Altoona; death caused by being struck by 
Johnstown accommodation two miles west of Altoona during a dense fog.
  February 12 - Michael Lacerante, Altoona; died at the Altoona hospital with 
acute tramatic [sic] meningitis.
  February 12 - Mrs. Minnie Edgar, Altoona; death caused by heart failure.
  February 12 - Adolphus Clapper, Canoe Creek; found drowned in a stream near 
Canoe Creek, having evidently driven off a bridge with a buggy; the buggy was 
overturned upon him.
  February 21 - Clarence Lee McClain, 6-month-old infant, Altoona; death 
caused by spasms.
  February 21 - Joseph Munick died at Altoona hospital, resulting from a fall 
from a ledge of rock, alighting on his head, at stone quarry.
  March 2 - John Simon, Altoona; stepped in front of freight train while at 
work at Kittanning Point; died of injuries received at Altoona hospital a few 
hours afterwards.
  March 3 - Benjamin Yeager, Altoona; died from injuries received while 
blowing up stone with dynamite near Hutchison's, two miles below Altoona.
  March 5 - Sarah McFarland, Altoona; instantly killed, near Grazierville, 
Pa., by being struck by passenger train while gathering coal near the 
Pennsylvania railroad track.
  March 8 - J. E. Riley, Altoona; death resulted from taking laudanum with 
suicidal intent.
  March 10 - Edward Shultz, Altoona; struck by engine 510 in Altoona yard, 
while in discharge of his duty as assistant track foreman; died at hospital.
  March 12 - John F. Aurandt, Tyrone; instantly killed at Tyrone station by 
falling between the cars while in motion.
  March 14 - Richard Kamm, Frankstown; found drowned in the Juniata river.
  March 14 - William Allen, Altoona; killed by being struck by a train near 
McGarvey's.
  March 16 - Paul Gazink, Altoona hospital; death caused by exposure while 
ill and having no medical attention at Kittanning Point.
  March 23 - Grant Kemberling; killed by being struck by a train at 
McGarvey's at midnight, March 22.
  March 27 - James W. Buchanan, Altoona; killed by being run over by engine 
No. 581 in Altoona yard, at Ninth avenue and Eighth street.
  March 28 - J. J. Gettys, Altoona; death resulted from injuries received on 
railroad, March 26, at Gallitzin, while in the discharge of his duty.
  April 7 - Mrs. Levina Kellerman, of Gaysport; death caused by internal 
hemorrhages.
  April 15 - Hugh Durham, Altoona; death caused by internal hemorrhages.
  April 15 - Earl Scott McMonegal, Altoona; death caused by being crushed 
between the cars in the Altoona yard, opposite the Logan House, while 
attempting to board a freight train.
  April 19 - Christopher O'Dawd, killed by being run over by an engine at 
Gallitzin tunnel while asleep along the railroad track.
  April 21 - William Hippensteel, Altoona; death caused by the crushing of 
the right leg by a tree falling on it on April 12; died at the Altoona 
hospital, April 21.
  April 22 - Andrew Butler, Altoona; death caused by spine disease.
  April 25 - Chambers Imler, Altoona; death resulted from being thrown from a 
buggy at Eighth avenue and Twenty-fourth street, Altoona, April 23.
  April 27 - Unknown man struck and killed by a train at the three culverts.
  April 28 - Tim McGarvey, struck and killed by Engine No. 91, near the three 
culverts, April 27.
  May 4 - Jiacento Scalso, Altoona; death resulted from pneumonia.
  May 5 - Alta May Corbin; death resulted from being burned at J. W. 
Plummber's carpenter shop, Altoona.
  May 10 - Joseph Hunter, Altoona; death resulted from double pneumonia.
  May 11 - James Malone, Gaysport; death caused by suicidal drowning in the 
Juniata river, Hollidaysburg.
  May 17 - Mat Fartoon, Altoona; death resulted from being injured in a slide 
at Clover Creek stone quarries.
  May 20 - Philip Hoover, of Tyrone; death caused by apoplexy.
  May 23 - Unknown man killed by being struck by an engine while attempting 
to cross the railroad at Bellwood.
  May 24 - George Grajack, Altoona hospital; death caused by an obstruction 
of the bowels.
  May 24 - John Windsor, Altoona; killed by being struck with an engine at 
the three culverts.
  May 26 - John Teacock, Altoona; death resulted from pneumonia.
  June 24 - William Davis, Altoona; death caused by a fall of sand near 
Duncansville; injured internally.
  June 25 - Illegitimate child of Mary Gibboney, Altoona; death caused by 
premature birth.
  June 24 - Pancozia Mangone, Altoona; death caused by being struck with 
engine 1,591, at McGarvey's.
  July 9 - Michael Chislock, Bennington; killed by a fall of coal at bank of 
East End Coal company.
  August 8 - Charles M. Johnson, Tyrone township; death caused by spasms.
  August 17 - Charles M. Fogel, Logan township; death resulted from natural 
causes.
  August 16 - George A. Reeves, Altoona; death caused by apoplexy.
  August 17 - Edward Caswell, Altoona; death caused by being caught between 
two Jenny couplers and crushed across the abdomen in the Altoona yard.
  August 18 - W. A. Ainsworth, Altoona; death caused by peritonitis.
  August 20 - Unknown child taken dead from the filtering beds at Canan 
station.
  August 23 - Jacob Burket, Altoona; death caused by being thrown under the 
wheels of a freight train while attempting to get off, near Cresson, August 
22.
  September 24 - Barbara France, Altoona; death resulted from a dose of 
carbolic acid, administered by mistake by her mother.
  September 22 - Albert Wertz, 21 months old, smothered while asleep at his 
home, one mile below Altoona.
  September 23 - David M. Mills, Roaring Spring; instantly killed by a draft 
of cars while walking along the railroad near Roaring Spring.
  October 1 - Barbara Wolf, Altoona; death caused by heart trouble.
  October 8 - Harry C. Buck, Altoona; death caused by being caught under the 
shaft of a steam hammer in the upper blacksmith shop of the Pennsylvania 
railroad company.
  October 16 - Two infants found dead at the entrance to Seventh street 
bridge, Altoona.
  October 27 - Thomas G. Speece, Altoona, brakeman on the Pennsylvania 
railroad; instantly killed by the breaking of a brake chain while on duty.
  October 26 - David Paul, Altoona; death caused by being struck by passenger 
train No. 14, on the Pennsylvania railroad, at Tyrone.
  November 9 - Richard C. McMurray, Altoona; death caused by an attempt to 
step from one car to another and falling between the tracks, his head being 
cut off by the cars.
  November 17 - Alexander Shock, Altoona; death caused by uraemia.
  November 22 - John Stevens, at Schmucker's quarry; death caused by a fall 
of stone at the stone quarry, crushing him.
  November 26 - John Creway, Franklin Forge; death caused by a stone rolling 
down from the top of quarry and striking him on the head while at work.
  December 7 - W. S. Chase, Altoona; death caused by stepping in front of a 
moving train in Altoona yard, in the darkness.
  December 4 - Peter Gerstwhite, Altoona; death caused by old age and heart 
failure.
  December 10 - J. W. O'Hara, Altoona; death caused by being caught in a 
wreck at Twenty-seventh street; he was a brakeman; the train broke, and when 
it came together he was on the platform and was instantly killed.
  December 13 - Lorenzo Gardello, Altoona; death caused by catarrh of the 
liver.