OBIT: Mamie DIEHL, 1902, Portage, 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, November 21, 1902 TWO PORTAGE GIRLS INJURED Misses Mamie Diehl, aged nineteen years, and Annie Lauffer, aged sixteen, both residents of Portage, were seriously injured at that place on Monday evening by Fast Line west. The two young ladies were standing on the platform just west of the station waiting on Philadelphia Express and did not notice the approaching eastbound train. Both were hurled to the ground quite a distance away by the engine. Miss Diehl received a fracture of the skull and lacerations and contusions of the face and body while Miss Lauffer had an arm fractured, and was also injured about the body. Both the injured girls were taken to their homes and surgical aid summoned. While their injuries are serious, it is not thought that they are fatal and it is believed that both will recover. Since the above was set in type, Miss Diehl died, her death occurring Monday night at 9:40 at the Memorial Hospital in Johnstown.