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Showing posts with label 1899. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1899. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

September 15, 1899 - Three Human Skulls Found, Narrow Escape in Windber & Franklin Miners Blown to Pieces

Somewhere in Johnstown - three human skulls found
Narrow Escape in Windber - Samuel Smith and Waston McMullen - attacked by a gypsy.
Franklin Miners Blown to Pieces
William H. Young and George W. Rice - Conemaugh Coal Company
Paul Demonty and Frank Larrison





 

May 1899 - Johnstown Husband with Four Other Wives, Will of Harry B. Campbell, 1,200 Year Old Oak Tree & Sheridan Station (Oakhurst) Accident

Mrs. Rebecca McDevitt - David McDevitt - married to four other women.
Will of Harry B, Campbell
1,200 year old Indiana County Oak Tree
John Miller, Charles Miller and Edward Dinehart - larceny
Charles F. Woods - killed at Sheridan Station (Oakhurst)


 

Sunday, July 5, 2026

January 27, 1899 - Both Legs Cut Off, Big Fire at Johnstown, Lizard in a Man's Stomach & Man with Bad Leg

James Skelly 
Big Fire at Johnstown

Edward McNeal - Lizard in Stomach
David Penrod - Necrosis of leg