OBIT: James O'HARA, 1907, Cresson, Cambria County, PA

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Altoona Mirror
Altoona, Pa.
Thursday, April 11, 1907

BADLY HURT AT CRESSON.

Car Inspector James O'Hara Run Over By a Car This Morning - Tried to 
Save Another Man.

While making an attempt to save a fellow workman from being killed 
underneath a car at Cresson yesterday afternoon about 2 o'clock, James 
O'Hara, son of John O'Hara of Cresson, was run down by another car and 
so badly injured that he will die.  He is at the Altoona hospital and 
his condition late this afternoon was very serious.

O'Hara was employed as a car inspector by the Pennsylvania railroad 
company in the Cresson yards, and while in the performance of his 
duties noticed that a fellow workman was underneath a car that was 
about to be moved.  He called to the other man, but owing to the noise 
of an approaching train his words could not be heard and he ran to the 
rescue of his fellow workman to pull him from underneath the car, when 
he was run down.  His right foot was crushed and he sustained internal 
injuries of a very serious nature.

The injured man was brought to the Altoona hospital.  Owing to his 
serious condition the foot was not amputated.  The other workman was 
not injured.


Altoona Mirror
Altoona, Pa.
Friday, April 12, 1907

NOTES FROM THE HOSPITAL.

John O'Hara, the young man from Cresson, who was caught under the 
wheels of a car at that place on Wednesday afternoon, while attempting 
to rescue a fellow workman, and who has since been in a critical 
condition at the Altoona hospital, is said to be somewhat better this 
afternoon and he may recover.



St. Aloysius Cemetery, Cresson Township, Cambria County -
O'HARA, James C., 28 Oct 1877-14 Apr 1907
http://www.camgenpa/cems/CreStAlo04.html