OBIT: Elmer E. BITTNER, 1916, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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Bittner, Elmer E.

WAS SCALDED TO DEATH - On Friday afternoon, Elmer E. Bittner, a former resident 
of Somerset County, was scalded to death at Waitville, W. Va., while working on 
a "donkey" engine in a lumber camp. With three other men, he was attempting to 
make repairs to the engine when in some manner it upset. Three of the men were 
frightfully scalded and another but slightly hurt. Boettner died on the way to 
the hospital at Roanoke, Va. His wife and one son survive. The funeral took 
place on Tuesday at Frostburg.

[NOTE: Name is spelled Bittner and Boettner in obituary.]

Meyersdale Commercial, Jan. 20, 1916