OBIT: John WINTERS, 1897, Birmingham, Huntingdon County, PA

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ALMOST INSTANTLY KILLED.
Struck by a Rock Weighing Nearly Half a Ton - Skull Crushed.

  John Winters, aged 16 years, driver in the quarries of the Cambria 
Iron company at Birmingham, was almost instantly killed by being struck 
by a falling rock yesterday morning.  He was in the act of hitching his 
mules to a cart when a rock weighing nearly half a ton toppled from a 
ledge about forty feet above him, striking another ledge on the way 
down and glancing therefrom.  Workmen seeing the imminent danger called 
to the boy, but too late, for just as he looked up, the heavy rock 
struck him on the head crushing his skull in a horrible manner.  
Notwithstanding his terrible injury, young Winters lived almost three 
hours, breathing his last shortly after 1 o'clock.
  Dr. D. J. Appleby, of Tyrone, and Dr. S. M. Snyder, of Birmingham, 
rendered all the medical aid possible, but their patient was hurt 
beyond possible recovery.  Coroner T. S. McCartney went to Birmingham 
in the afternoon to hold an inquest.  The deceased was the son of 
Samuel Winters.  He had been the victim of an accident strikingly 
similar last September, when he was struck by a falling rock and 
sustained a fracture at the base of the skull.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., June 3, 1897

1880 Huston Township, Blair County census -
Samuel Winters, 46 
Elizabeth Winters, 33 
John W. Winters, 13 
Charles D. Winters, 9 
Harriet Winters, 8/12 

1900 Birmingham, Huntingdon County census -
Samuel Winters, 68 
Elizabeth A. Winters, 53, 5 children, 2 living 
J. William Winters, 33 
Harriet Winters, 20 
Earl Winters, 18 
Percie P. Winters, 7 
Elsworth M. Winters, 3