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

 

December 1898 - He Was Thawing Dynamite & Hastings Stabbing

Michael Murphy  Windber blew his hand off thawing dynamite.

Foreigner Stabbed at Hastings

Harry Butler - $10 fine

 

Callen's Bread - Windber - 1953

 

Eureka

Windber

Whalley Motors

Whalley Motor - Windber

Eureka Stores

Eureka - Windber

Eureka Truck

Delivery truck for Eureka Stores in Windber.

Berkey vs Berwind White - 1907

Berkey vs Berwind White Mining Company (Windber) - August 1907.

Daniel Ott - Johnstown Contractor

Reader Donald Costlow sent in these pictures of his Great-Grandfather Daniel Ott standing by his home near Windber by Camp Hamilton. The camp was the football training site for Windber High School. He says there are two stone cottages Daniel built in the early 1900's and both are still standing to this day - look on the right just before you hit the camp area - they are easy to pick out.

Daniel Ott was a Johnstown contractor. During the late 1800's and the early 1900's he built many houses and churches in the Hornerstown section of Johnstown. One of them was the Trinity Lutheran Church at the corner of Pine and Hickory.

Before it was demolished a few years ago, it was known as St. James Baptist Church.

 

Mine 37 - Windber

Mine 37 - Windber 

 

Mine 37

Mine 37

Windber Dough

The Citizens National Bank of Windber - $20 Bill

Aged Lady Honored - August 1907

Aged Lady Honored - Mrs. Jacob Wirick - whose family has lived in the Windber Area since the early 1800's - August 1907

Start of Mine 42 - Windber - 1907

Very interesting clip about the startup of Mine 42 in Windber - Somerset County - 1907