OBIT: John ADAMS, 1930, Jennerstown, Somerset County, PA

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JOHN ADAMS

Fatally Injured by Falling Forty Feet

  John Adams, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Adams, of Jennerstown, 
expired about 1 p.m., Wednesday, in the Johnstown Memorial Hospital of injuries 
sustained earlier in the day when he fell from the second floor of the new White 
Star Hotel to the cement basement.  Adams went to work early Wednesday morning 
and was last seen on the second floor scaffolding.  He was found a short time 
afterwards unconscious on the cellar floor, having fallen a distance of 40 feet.  
The victim remained in an unconscious condition until death.

Meyersdale Republican, September 18, 1930