OBIT: Andrew MEKUS, 1904, Ehrenfeld, Cambria County, PA

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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, November 4, 1904
Volume XXXVIII, Number 43

Dies on way to Hospital, Ehrenfeld, Nov. 1:

  Andrew Mekus, the Slav who was seriously injured by falling from the 
P. R. R. Bridge at Portage last night, died in the P. R. R. Station at 
this place about 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. Mekus was attended upon 
his arrival here by Dr. Scott who ordered his removal to the Memorial 
Hospital of Johnstown.  The injured man was taken to the station to be 
placed on the train but passed away shortly before the arrival of the 
train. He was thirty-five years of age and had a wife and several 
children. Undertaker Dimond of South Fork took charge of the body and 
prepared it for burial. The funeral will take place tomorrow.