Cambria County PA Archives Obituaries.....Carroll, William  June 1872
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The Cambria freeman. (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938: June 15, 1872
William Carroll, a young man about 26 years of age, was killed by a stroke of
lightning, on Wednesday afternoon last, on the level between Planes 4 and 5, in
Washington township. He had taken refuge from the rain under a large sugar tree, and
the lightning struck the tree, passing down the trunk and struck the deceased on the
shoulder, passed down his side and made its exit at his boot, bursting the boot in
so doing, killing him instantly. The lifeless remains were found by his mother lying
near the scene, who had gone to call him to his supper. It is a singular coincidence
that the young man's father was killed very near the same spot by a railroad
accident on the old Portage railroad several years ago.

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