OBIT: Eugene WALTERS, 1903, St. Boniface, Cambria County, PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, October 30, 1903

St. Boniface Boy Killed

  Eugene Walters, a young man of St. Boniface, died in the woods about 
one-third of a mile from that place last Thursday evening as the result 
of a peculiar hunting accident.  Accompanied by John Phillips, Walters 
went after game.  Between 5 and 6 o'clock, Phillips, in crossing a 
fence scared out a rabbit and the two hunters laid their shotguns on a 
stone pile and gave chase to Bunny.  Walters threw a stone at the 
rabbit but the missile struck the hammer of Phillip's weapon, 
discharging it.  Walters was standing about fifteen feet from the gun 
when it was fired and received the load in his right side, a great hole 
being torn in his breast and an artery severed.  Phillips at once went 
to St. Boniface to bring help, but when the party reached Walters he 
was breathing his last.