Blair-Clearfield County PA Archives News.....Chapter on Minor Accidents: Personal Injuries Received in the Shops and About the City. July 30, 1908
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Altoona Mirror, 30 July 1908

Albert Koells of 211 Howard avenue was treated at the hospital for a laceration
sustained in having his arm cut by a piece of steel.

Joseph Bilka of 815 Ninth avenue, a railroad laborer, was struck on the right
arm by a piece of steel yesterday, lacerating the hand. He received treatment at
the hospital.

David Morgan, a foreman employed at the Bell-Bockel stone quarry and residing at
1906 Second avenue, while loading a hole with dynamite, was caught under a fall
of rock, sustaining lacerations of his scalp and right arm.

Bessie Brewster, the 9-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.B. Brewster of 800
Second avenue, while walking across the floor of the kitchen, slipped and fell
into a dishpan full of boiling water, badly scalding her body from her head to
her foot.

Mr. Fisher, employed by the Pennsylvania railroad company at GY tower, three
miles west of this city, and who resides near that place, was struck in the
right wrist by a sharp piece of steel late yesterday afternoon, almost severing
a large artery and causing heavy loss of blood. Dr. Davis A. Hogue dressed the
injury.

Charles Spangle, a 16-year-old miner, residing at Coalport, while attempting to
board a moving freight train on the Pennsylvania and Northwestern railroad, near
his home, last evening, missed his footing and was thrown in such a position
that five cars passed over his right leg, crushing the limb above the ankle. He
was placed on an engine and hurried to the Altoona hospital. He was placed upon
the operating table and the injured leg was amputated just below the knee.

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