OBIT: Dominick & Francesco DELVECHEA, 1902, Cambria County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, December 12, 1902 TWO KILLED IN MINE Dominick and Francesco Delvechea, brothers, the former aged 23 and the latter, 16, were instantly killed by a fall of rock in No. 2 Superior mine of the Coalport Mining company, Dysart, Saturday afternoon. The tragedy leaves the father of the victims, an Italian, aged 50 years, the sole surviving member of his family. The mother died in Italy just before her youngest son left his home for the United States. Dominick Delvechea was talking with a miner, named John Barrett, when Francesco, who had been working alongside his father, came over to where his older brother was, taking with him some powder and stopping for a moment to talk. He had been there but a minute or two when a mass of rock, weighing probably a ton, fell on the brothers. Barrett was very nearly caught and as soon as he recovered from his "scare" he discovered that both Dominick and Francisco were dead. Coroner E. J. Miller went to Dysart Monday morning and made an investigation of the circumstances of the tragedy. He found that an inquest was unnecessary.