OBIT: DRESSER, Horace; 1864; Cambria Cnty., PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ The Alleghanian Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, 21 Jan 1864 Volume 5, Number 17 Fatal Accident We clip the following announcement from the CAMBRIA TRIBUNE of Friday: "On Saturday night last a man was found lying on the Railroad track below old Conemaugh Furnace by the watchman ahead of the Express train east. He was so badly injured that he was unable to give his name or tell how he received his injuries. He was brought to Johnstown on the Express, and conveyed to the Scott House where he was properly taken care of. He was found to be very seriously hurt about the head, in addition to which his hands and feet were badly frozen. It was subsequently ascertained that his name was Horace Dresser, a native of Maine and a workman in a shook shop near Ninevah, but he could tell nothing of how he came on the track or received his injuries. It is supposed however that he had fallen from the mail train west and was so badly hurt that he could not get off the track. In a few minutes more he would have been torn to pieces by the train from the west. He lingered until Wednesday morning, when death closed his earthly career. He was a single man, about 23 years old, but was engaged to be married on the very day on which he died. His affianced bride accompanied his remains from the hotel on Wednesday afternoon to their place of interment in Indiana county. The editor of this paper was well acquainted with the subject of the foregoing notice, having known him from boyhood up. He was born and reared in our native town, Lovell, Maine. He had lived in this section for several years past and through his industry and economy was in a fair way of accumulating a competency. Kind, courteous, affable, he was beloved by all who knew him. We sorrow at his sad and untimely demise and keenly sympathize with his parents and friends, who, through this bereavement, will know their Horace no more on earth forever.