Fatal Accident.
On Monday last a young man named Benjamin Bowers, son of a widow woman residing near Bell's Mills, was killed on the Bell's Gap road. This road is now completed some six miles up the run. A locomotive is used in taking up the men and material, and the trucks run down by gravitation. On Monday last, Mr. Ramey, the engineer of the road had charge of the front truck, but coming on a snow drift, or some other obstruction, its speed was retarded, when the second truck on which young Bowers was breaking [braking] at the front end, struck, starting the front truck ahead, but the jar threw Bowers to the ground immediately in front of the wheels, which passed over him, mangling his body in a most shocking manner. He was a young man of much promise, aged about seventeen years. His father lost his life in the late civil war. This is the first serious accident on this road and may it be the last for many months.
Altoona Sun, Altoona, Pa., Friday morning, December 13, 1872
Deaths from The Register, Hollidaysburg, Blair Co., PA.
BOWERS - Benjamin Bowers, some days ago, was killed on the Bell's Gap Railroad, by being thrown on to the track, the cars running over him.18 Dec. 1872 issue.
On Monday last a young man named Benjamin Bowers, son of a widow woman residing near Bell's Mills, was killed on the Bell's Gap road. This road is now completed some six miles up the run. A locomotive is used in taking up the men and material, and the trucks run down by gravitation. On Monday last, Mr. Ramey, the engineer of the road had charge of the front truck, but coming on a snow drift, or some other obstruction, its speed was retarded, when the second truck on which young Bowers was breaking [braking] at the front end, struck, starting the front truck ahead, but the jar threw Bowers to the ground immediately in front of the wheels, which passed over him, mangling his body in a most shocking manner. He was a young man of much promise, aged about seventeen years. His father lost his life in the late civil war. This is the first serious accident on this road and may it be the last for many months.
Altoona Sun, Altoona, Pa., Friday morning, December 13, 1872
Deaths from The Register, Hollidaysburg, Blair Co., PA.
BOWERS - Benjamin Bowers, some days ago, was killed on the Bell's Gap Railroad, by being thrown on to the track, the cars running over him.18 Dec. 1872 issue.
Fatal Accident.
On Monday last a young man named Benjamin Bowers, son of a widow woman residing near Bell's Mills, was killed on the Bell's Gap road. This road is now completed some six miles up the run. A locomotive is used in taking up the men and material, and the trucks run down by gravitation. On Monday last, Mr. Ramey, the engineer of the road had charge of the front truck, but coming on a snow drift, or some other obstruction, its speed was retarded, when the second truck on which young Bowers was breaking [braking] at the front end, struck, starting the front truck ahead, but the jar threw Bowers to the ground immediately in front of the wheels, which passed over him, mangling his body in a most shocking manner. He was a young man of much promise, aged about seventeen years. His father lost his life in the late civil war. This is the first serious accident on this road and may it be the last for many months.
Altoona Sun, Altoona, Pa., Friday morning, December 13, 1872
Deaths from The Register, Hollidaysburg, Blair Co., PA.
BOWERS - Benjamin Bowers, some days ago, was killed on the Bell's Gap Railroad, by being thrown on to the track, the cars running over him.18 Dec. 1872 issue.
On Monday last a young man named Benjamin Bowers, son of a widow woman residing near Bell's Mills, was killed on the Bell's Gap road. This road is now completed some six miles up the run. A locomotive is used in taking up the men and material, and the trucks run down by gravitation. On Monday last, Mr. Ramey, the engineer of the road had charge of the front truck, but coming on a snow drift, or some other obstruction, its speed was retarded, when the second truck on which young Bowers was breaking [braking] at the front end, struck, starting the front truck ahead, but the jar threw Bowers to the ground immediately in front of the wheels, which passed over him, mangling his body in a most shocking manner. He was a young man of much promise, aged about seventeen years. His father lost his life in the late civil war. This is the first serious accident on this road and may it be the last for many months.
Altoona Sun, Altoona, Pa., Friday morning, December 13, 1872
Deaths from The Register, Hollidaysburg, Blair Co., PA.
BOWERS - Benjamin Bowers, some days ago, was killed on the Bell's Gap Railroad, by being thrown on to the track, the cars running over him.18 Dec. 1872 issue.
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