OBIT: Blair SHUSS, 1899, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, PA

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Met With a Fatal Accident.
Special to the Tribune.

  HUNTINGDON, Pa., July 20. - Blair Shuss, aged 15 or 16 years, 
residing with his widowed mother on Penn street, above Fifteenth, met 
with a fatal accident in the J. C. Blair company building yesterday 
afternoon.  The young man had taken a truck load of waste paper to the 
basement of the rear building, using the No. 3 elevator. In ascending a 
mishap occurred which resulted in his being caught between the elevator 
and the first floor, and he was terribly crushed between the shoulders.  
Judging from the hemorrhage which followed, it is believed that several 
blood vessels and the lungs were affected, although no bones were 
broken.  His attending physician would not give a very encouraging 
opinion as to the ultimate result of the awful misfortune, and the 
worse fears of the young man's friends were realized soon after 
midnight this morning, when he died.
  The unfortunate you is a son of the late P. H. Shuss, who was killed 
by an explosion at a saw mill in Bedford county recently, and his 
grief-stricken mother, now almost crazed, is bedfast on account of 
illness at the present time.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Friday, July 21, 1899