OBIT: George HAMPDON, 1891, Cambria County, PA

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Morning Tribune
Altoona, Pa.
Tuesday, 10 Mar 1891


Fatal Accident on the Railroad.

  Johnstown Tribune, March 9: About 6 o'clock yesterday morning the 
remains of a man were found on the Somerset and Cambria railroad in the 
vicinity of Ferndale.  The body was chopped into pieces, which were 
scattered along the track for a distance of fully 200 yards.  The head 
looked as if it had been squeezed between the car bumpers.  The body 
was this morning identified by friends as that of George Hampdon, 
employed at the mines of the Ingleside Coal company, above Bethel, of 
which Mr. Alfred Slater is superintendent.  He was about 25 years old, 
and, it is said, had a brother working at a mine in Clearfield county.  
An effort will be made to communicate with the brother before the 
remains are buried.