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Crushed By A Large Stone

Culled from the 1892 Morbid Scrapbook

CRUSHED BY A LARGE STONE.

While a gang of men were engaged in digging a culvert on Kitcher’s lane, near Carpenter street, Germantown, yesterday, a large stone became loosened and fell. All the men escaped except Antonio Ameras, thirty-five years old, of 4683 Morris street, who was seriously injured. He was taken to the Germantown Hospital, where it was found that he had sustained fractures of his nose and thigh and serious internal injuries. It is feared that he will not recover.


From the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair
The 1892 Morbid Scrapbook

Another Victim of the Elevator

Steele Scrapbook – January 23, 1886

ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE ELEVATOR.

YORK, Pa., Jan. 15.–August C. Abe, a carpenter, aged thirty-two years, was this evening helping to put the finishing touches to a new elevator at C. A. Baylor’s cigar factory, and was standing at the bottom of the elevator shaft, the car being forty feet above him at the fourth floor. Proprietor Baylor stepped on the car, which caused the cable to slip from its temporary fastenings, and it descended with great celerity to the bottom of the shaft, carrying Mr. Baylor with it. He escaped serious injury, but Abe was killed.