Cambria County PA Archives News.....Son of Hugh Williams Seriously Hurt June 13, 1867
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The Cambria Freeman. (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938 June 13, 1867
A terrible accident occurred just below the depot on Saturday evening, by which a
son of Mr. Hugh Williams of Millville, only four years of age, lost one of his
limbs. The unfortunate little fellow had clambered up the steep embankment at the
point indicated, and had caught hold of the stirrup of one of the cars of a freight
train which had backed in on the siding to allow the accommodation to pass. After
the passenger train had left the station the engineer of the freight train whistled
to back out to the main track, and it is supposed the sudden jerk threw little
Williams down in such a manner that the several cars ran over his leg, crushing it
from the foot to the knee. On the discovery of the accident the boy was  carried to
the house of his parents, several surgeons summoned, and it was found necessary to
amputate the crushed limb just below the hip. It is doubtful whether young Williams,
owing to his extreme youth, can recover. but this terrible accident should prove a
sad warning to a certain class of boys who infest the depot and amuse themselves by
jumping on and off passing trains. 

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