OBIT: Jim KAMMISH, 1915, Hooversville, Somerset County, PA

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Kammish, Jim

  Jim Kammish, a Polish resident of Hooversville, ended his life in a tragic and 
most horrible manner at Johnstown on Tuesday by running in front of a moving 
train, being decapitated. Engineer Blake Bothel, of Somerset, in charge of extra 
engine No. 2855, suffered a nervous shock when a man wildly waving his hat and 
yelling dashed towards the train and disappeared under the wheels of the engine. 
A moment later a headless form was lying along the outer edge of the track and 
the head inside the rails. Engineer Bothel could not make out what the man said 
but two boys standing nearby say the foreigner yelled "Goodbye; here I go." His 
identity was discovered by means of a pay envelope in one of his pockets bearing 
the name of the Knickerbocker Coal Co., Hooversville.

Meyersdale Commercial, Oct. 14, 1915