August 1888 - Coopersdale Boy Struck by Lightning at Ten Acre Bridge in Cambria City

Stephen S. Merritts - son of a widow in Coppersdale struck and killed by lightning at Ten Acre Bridge in Cambria City.  

 

February 2, 1906 - Johnstown Men Beaten by Outlaws & Lots of Windber Babies

A hungarian and a guy named Joseph McGuirk

Windber Babies

 

May 28, 1904 - Johnstown Girl Assaulted - Girl Nearly Drowns in Johnstown Flood Exhibit - A Sad Series of Misfortunes follow a Coopersdale Family

Sadie Stephens of Morrellville assaulted by three young men near the waiting room of the Johnstown Passenger Railway Company (Trolley system) that would have been down by where the Fairfield Avenue Underpass is now. 

Gorl Saved from Drowning in Johnstown Flood Exhibit

A FAMILY'S AFFLICTION

Mrs. Charles Perdew

 

April 30, 1904 - THREE MEN DROWNED JUST BELOW COOPERSDALE

THE DEAD: James Pleola, Antonio Pleola and Antonio Skrenata

C.C. Merritt Sr., Charles George and Charles Grabill. 

 

April 4, 1890 - Update on the story of "The Two Idiots with a Gun" Fatal in Coopersdale - Witness Statements - this clipping is from The Johnstown Weekly Tribune

 CLICK HERE to read what The Cambria Freeman had to say about this fatal in Coopersdale. The following clippings are from The Johnstown Weekly Tribune. 

Victim John O'Neil & Shooter is Bert Davidson. He was shot in his boarding house in Coopersdale owned by a man named Hagan.

April 4, 1890 - Coopersdale - Killed by a Friend - Two Idiots with a Gun

John O'Neill and Bert Davison - in Coopersdale - house of a man named Hagan. Milton Bolsinger was a boarder. 

 

January 1870 - Cambria Freeman - DISTRICT COURT PROCEEDINGS, Cambria City shooting of old lady, along with assorted other bits

 

Odd & Ends - 9 February 1943

Stores robbed in the West End of Johnstown and kids gangs in Coopersdale.

 

Trolley Time

Cooper Avenue

Trolley Time

Cooper Avenue - Coopersdale

Trolley Time

Coopersdale

River Wall

Heading out of Coopersdale to Cramer Pike.

Cooper Avenue

Trolley Time - Coopersdale

Trolley Time

Cooper Avenue

Coopersdale Barn

The old car barn in Coopersdale.

Maser Brothers

James and William Maser

Trolley Time

Coopersdale Loop

Trolley Time

Cooper Avenue

Readied For Active Duty In The Navy

Eighteen men of the Battalion 4-20, Divisions 447 and 418, Naval Reserve, will leave Johnstown early Sunday morning to begin a tour of active duty. They will go to the Philadelphia Naval Yards. In a preview demonstration last night at the Naval Reserve Training Center, Coopersdale, the men seemed happy regardless of the fact that they soon would be in training again.

Pictured - left to right from the bottom of the steps

First Row: Robert Zeiler, Eugene Verbano, Dalles Stiles, Michael Mindala.

Second Row: Homer Lloyd, Silvio Landino, Henry McClintock, Francis Vanderberg, Henry Wertz.

Third Row: Frank Petak, John Haskins Jr., Joseph Stibich, Randell Smith, William Rennie.

Fourth Row: Paul Miller, Edmund Worley, Andrew Piskura and Harry Horner.