January 22, 1885 - 12 year old Found Frozen to Death, Terrible Mill Accident & Weekly Train Fatal

Willie Hendricks found frozen to death. 

Robert Lloyd - Cambria Iron accident. 

Lena Schaefer and Annie Griffith

Herman Hoffman - killed by train. 

 

December 1885 - Usual Look at People vs Trains

Hugh McMonagle - of Prospect - hit by train.

Bert Shelley of Johnstown fell from his train at Nineveh (Seward)

Death of Hugh McMonagle.

 

October 1885 - Drowning near Johnstown - Plus the Usual Horrible Accidents

Drowning near Johnstown - victim Albert Thomas - Colored. Stonycreek at Grubbtown (Kernville). Alex Bogus.

Mrs. Felix Boxler - household accident - Conemaugh Borough. 

Jacob Miller - Cambria Iron Accident

Charley Michaels - going back to jail. 

Obit - James Maloy - Cambria City.

 

June 26, 1885 - Cambria Iron Accident, Kids will be Kids and a Johnstown Soap Opera

Evan Hughes - Cambria Iron - Accident

Johnnie James - playing and hurt.

Edward Wolford, George Wolford and a Miss Luther - Adams Street between Main and Bedford.

May 1885 - Terrible Explosion in Somerset, Civil War Grave Markers, Bad Accident at Cambria Iron, Highway Robbery at East Conemaugh & Maple Sugar Time

Terrible explosion in Somerset - W.T. Beach

Civil War Grave Markers

Samuel Reighard - accident at Cambria Iron.

Highway robbery at East Conemaugh. Custer's Hall Franklin Borough, Confer's Saloon and the Bluff.

Maple Sugaring in Somerset County

 

December 1881 - Horrible is the Theme with these - From a terrible Step-father - Mill Accident - Unexplained Young Death & a Horse with Wooden Leg

William McMillen rapes his step daughter multiple times. 

Horse with a wooden leg

John Schittenholm killed at Gautier Steel. 

Son of Henry Shaffer dropped dead while skating. 

 

September 1882 - Accident Roundup - Cambria Freeman

George Mooney - Cambria City

Andrew Burkett

Jacob Crouse

Max Lamison

Willie O'Brien

 

April 1, 1882 - Nanny Goat Rescue in Johnstown, Idiot with a Gun=Trouble, Update on St. Vitus Victim & Look Back at Old Iron Furnaces - Alleghenian

William Gerhardt recues a goat off a hillside in Johnstown.

John Schnabel shoots himself in the head accidently. 

Miss Lizzie Berger dies of St. Vitus Dance. 

Johnstown Iron Furnace History

 

February & March 1882 - Undertakers Refuse to Bury a Dead Child - So Smallpox Nurse does it herself, Awful Hot Cinder Accident at Hinckston Run & A Terrible Case of St. Vitus Dance - Sent to Poor House - Cambria Freeman

Undertakers Refuse Burial - instead Miss Zoler a nurse at the Johnstown Smallpox Hospital buried the dead child herself. Father was Policeman Ellsworth of Cambria City. 

Patrick Moran of Minersville burned by hot cinders along Hinckston Run.

German named Birke had Maggie Hoffman arrested and accused of stealing from him. 

Elizabeth Berger from Germany - case of St. Vitus Dance sent to Poor House to recover by her brother.She'd worked in the home of John Malor of Coal Street - Conemaugh Borough. 

 

September 1881 - Odds & Ends - Mother Hurt Helping Son & Usual Daily Train Accident - Cambria Freeman

Mrs. Andrew Moses of Johnstown falls down a flight of stairs. 

Mary Martin daughter of Thomas Martin hit by train in Prospect on the way to work

 

January 1881 - Boy Killed Throwing Snowballs at Train, 1653 Violin, Stable Moving Accident & Dogs Dig up Corpses from (Union) Cemetery to Munch On - Cambria Freeman

Albert Mullen of Prospect killed by train while throwing snowballs. 

Violin from 1653 in Johnstown - J. Cohen

Third Ward Stable Moving Accident - Richard Jones and David Boyle. 

Doogs dig and chew up corpses from Union Cemetery chew on - Johnstown, Union Street School kids help collect the bones off the wild dogs.