OBIT: Ammon BLOUGH, 1942, Davidsville, Somerset County, PA

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AMMON BLOUGH

Farmer Crushed Under Tractor
Runaway Tractor Traps Davidsville Man Trying to Save Thresher

  Ammon Blough, a Davidsville farmer, well known in Somerset County, was killed 
instantly shortly after noon on Tuesday when he was crushed under the wheels of 
a tractor near his home.  He was 61.
  Deputy Coroner J. D. Patton of Windber said Tuesday night that the farmer had 
started out in the morning pulling the threshing machine with the tractor on a 
dirt road between Carpenter's Park and Davidsville.
  About a mile from his home, while the two machines were traveling up hill, a 
connecting rod between the tractor and the threshing machine broke off, letting 
the thresher drift slowly down the grade.  Quickly setting the brakes Blough 
jumped from the tractor and hurried after the threshing machine to steer it or 
stop it in order that it would not be damaged.
  At this point the brakes on the tractor apparently let go and the machine 
began drifting down the road in the direction of the thresher.  Blough was 
struck, knocked to the road and crushed by the tractor, which ran over his body.
  Only eye witnesses of the tragedy were J. E. Wengard and his wife, Mrs. Ruth 
Wengard of Carpenter's Park.  Mr. and Mrs. Wengard, who operate a small store 
there, were on their way to their home in their car when they saw Blough jump 
from the tractor and struck and killed by the machine.

Helper Arrives Late

  Blough's helper, Carl Holsopple, 23, of Holsopple R.D. 2, was following Mr. 
Blough in a car but did not arrive at the scene of the accident until ten 
minutes after it had occurred.
  Deputy Coroner Patton said that Blough had a close call with death about ten 
years ago when he lost an arm in a threshing accident.  The coroner said that 
Blough was threshing at that time for a neighbor farmer when a small belt on the 
machine broke, flopped around and caught Blough's left arm which was pulled into 
the machine, tearing it off completely at the elbow.  Since then Blough had been 
wearing an artifical arm.
  Carpenter's Park, where the accident occurred, is an old mining town with but 
a few buildings remaining.  It was formerly the property of the Cambria Fuel 
Company.  The store operated by Mr. and Mrs. Wengard is known as the Cambria 
store.
  Deputy Coroner Patton said that there probably would be no inquest.  Blough is 
survived by his wife, three daughters and one son.  He had been a prominent 
farmer in the Davidsville section for years, and had been engaged in the 
threshing business for many years.

Meyersdale Republican, July 16, 1942