Obits:  Stonebraker, Paul and Henry Uncapher, Indiana Co 

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Indiana Evening Gazette Indiana Pennsylvania 22 March 1917



ACCIDENTAL SHOT



Two men were accidentally injured at the Foster Mines near Edri yesterday;

one of them dying shortly after being admitted to the Indiana hospital for

treatment. The dead man is Harry Uncapher of Marion Center.



Paul Stonebraker, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Stonebraker of Cherryhill

township, is in serious condition in the Hospital as the result of

accidental injured received yesterday morning. Mr. Stonebraker is a coal and

iron police in the employ of the mining company near Saltsburg. Yesterday

morning, in the performance of his regular patrol duties, his rifle slipped

between two planks on top of the tipple. The hammer of the shotgun was

accidentally touched off and the charge entered his abdomen and worked its

way upward lodging near the right shoulder. The bullet has not yet been

located.



He was brought to the Indiana Hospital yesterday afternoon and his condition

is considered quite serious. He passed a fairly comfortable night and was

somewhat improved this morning. It will be several days, however, before the

physicians can determine whether he can recover.



Uncapher was employed in the mines and received a compound comminuted

fracture of the right leg when he was caught between two coal cars.

Arrangements were made immediately for bringing him to the hospital

overland. He arrived at the institution shortly afterward passed away, the

shock of the accident and the exposure necessitated by his being brought 22

miles in Indiana, being too severe for his constitution to stand.



The body was removed to a local undertaking establishment, where it was

prepared for burial. It will this evening be sent to his late home near

Marion Center.



He was 20 years old and was a son of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Uncapher and leaves

his parents and several brothers and sisters.