OBIT: T. Edward HAMMEL, 1902, Somerset County, PA

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DEATHS

  About 3 o'clock Sunday morning, T. Edward Hammel, was instantly 
killed in No. 32 mine of the Windber Coal Mining company at Windber.  
He was employed as a "spragger" in the mine, his duty being to take the 
cars in and out.  Electricity is used as a motive power and the 
unfortunate man was sitting on the moving motor when the accident 
occurred.  He was in about 150 feet in the main headway and reached in 
his pocket to get a match.  As he did so he leaned to one side and his 
head struck a post.  He was knocked from the motor and in falling his 
head was fractured by striking the journal boxes on the axle.  He was 
dead when picked up.
  
Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa., Friday, October 24, 1902