OBIT: Ernest BOWSER, 1942, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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ERNEST BOWSER

Garrett County, Maryland

  Ernest Bowser, 57, Garrett County farmer, was pronounced dead shortly after 
noon Monday from suffocation after he was trapped in a sand mine when the roof 
caved in.  Mr. Bowser was dead when he was brought from the mine and efforts of 
the Grantsville Fire Dept. and State Police, who were using the Cumberland 
Police Department's resusitator proved futile.
  A group of boys who were stationed at the entrance of the mine when the roof 
including a 600 pound rock fell, assisted in recovering the body, which was 
shattered by the fall.
  According to persons nearby, farmers living near the mine, which is located on 
state-owned property five miles west of Grantsville, along the Amish road on 
Negro mountain, have been taking sand from the mine for use on their farms.  
Several other men were working in the mine that morning but left before the 
fall.
  Surviving besides his wife, are four sons, Wilbur, at home, near Bittinger, 
Russell, stationed in the State of Washington, in the armed service, Alvin and 
Olin also at home, and two daughters, (Hilda) Mrs. Harold Green, near Bittinger, 
and (Olive) Mrs. Park Hetrick, also near Bittinger, also a nine-year-old adopted 
son, Perry Broadwater.

Meyersdale Republican, August 27, 1942