OBIT: William GARRETT, 1862, Centre County, PA

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DIED - HORRIBLE ACCIDENT - Hecla Furnace, Centre county, was the scene 
of a horrible accident last Wednesday. A young man named William 
Garrett was engaged in shovelling ore into the furnace, and getting too 
near the entrance he was suffocated with the gas and smoke and fell 
into the furnace, and was instantly burned to death.

Democratic Standard, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, November 12, 1862