OBIT: Howard VICROY, 1907, Conemaugh, Cambria County, PA

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Altoona Mirror
Altoona, Pa.
Friday, April 5, 1907

CONEMAUGH BOY DECAPITATED.
Supposed to Have Fallen Off a Freight Train on the Mountain Early This 
Morning.

Howard Vicroy, aged about 17 years, and whose home was at Conemaugh, 
was instantly killed on the Pennsylvania railroad near Allegripppus, 
eight miles west of Altoona, early this morning.  It is supposed that 
he fell from an east-bound freight train, going down between the cars 
to the track.  His head was completely severed from the body as slick 
as though done with a knife and, strange to say, the head and face were 
not disfigured in the least.  The right arm was ground off at the 
shoulder.  The body was found lying along the tracks by a train crew 
that passed the scene of the accident some time later, was put on train 
No. 20, the Johnstown accommodation, brought to Altoona, and turned 
over to Undertaker Lafferty.

Coroner Blackburn found a paper on the boy's clothes with the name 
Vicroy on, and telephoned the trainmaster at Conemaugh, who notified 
young Vicroy's grandfather, David Hilderbrand [sic].  He came to 
Altoona on the 11.35 train and identified the remains.  He said the boy 
had been employed at the Cambria iron works and did not know why he had 
left Johnstown.  The remains will be shipped to Conemaugh on the 8 
o'clock train tomorrow morning.



1900 East Taylor, Cambria County census -
William Vickroy, 44  
Alice Vickroy, 43  
Manuel Vickroy, 13  
Howard Vickroy, 11  
Melon Vickroy, 9  
Lemon Vickroy, 5