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Archibald Sellers
Indiana Evening Gazette (Indiana, Pennsylvania)
July 20 1908
Harrisburg, Pa., July 20 - Archibald Sellers of Highspire was drowned in the Susquahanna river almost at the point where Earl Spencer was killed, by lightning last Sunday. Sellers, who was nineteen years of age, had gone swimming when he was attacked by cramps.
C. J. Shearer
Taken From the Indiana Gazette, Indiana PA
September 27 1905
Harrisburg, Sept 22
Five men were killed and eight others seriously injured in a collision between
a pay train and a combination passenger milk train on the Philadelphia,
Harrisburg and Pittsburg branch of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad
near Mount Holly Springs. None of the passengers among whom were three
women were injured. The dead are: Ephraim McCleary and C. J.
Shearer of Harrisburg; John Hill and Edward Lauchs of Reading; Thomas Marion,
Pottsville. Hill died on the way to the Harrisburg hospital. The
other four were killed outright. The injured are: John E. Amole;
D. E. Zellers, Alfred Haven, Isaac McHose, Robert Richwine, George O. Sarvis,
John Miller and Harry Bomberger, all trainmen.
The pay train consisting of one locomotive and one coach, was going east to pay the men along the division. The combination train composed of locomotive, combination coach and two passenger trains was coming east. The two trains ran together at the curve, which is a sharp one and is flanked by a heavy clump of trees. Amole jumped from his engine and landed at the foot of a 25 foot enbankment. McCleary was found on top of the engine with the whistle cord in his hand, it having been pulled clear off the machine and all the breaks on the train set. The pay train contained about $50,000 in checks, which were scattered about the track. The checks were picked up by trainmen and turned over to John W. Wetzel attorney for the company at Carlisle.
Taken From Daily Gazette and Bulletin (Williamsport, Pennsylvania)
July 20 1900
Falling under a draft of cars at Bailey's Charles W. Sneigh, a Harrisburg brakeman was killed.
Frank Wonderly and Ross Smeltzer
Adams County News (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
October 28, 1916
Harrisburg, Pa., Oct 24 - Frank Wonderly, thirty-six old of Highspire, and Ross Smeltzer, fifty-two of Bressler, were instantly killed and William Martz of Bressler, was fly-burned as the result of an explosion of dynamite in a quarry near here. It is believed that the drill which the men were using struck a charge of the explosion which had failed to go off at a previous firing.
Clarence B. Smith
Taken From the New Oxford Item, New Oxford, Pennsylvania
December 2 1948
Clarence B. Smith, 60, brother of Charles Smith of Abbotsville, died Tuesday at Hummelstown. He was a native of Virginia. Surviving are his widow, two sons, two sisters and two other brothers.
Taken From the Gettysburg Compiler, Gettysburg, PA
December 4, 1948
Clarence B. Smith
Clarence B. Smith died Tuesday at his home in Hummelstown. He was a
native of Virginia and worked as a carpenter in that area for the past 35
years. He was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Grace Evangelical
United Brethren Church of Penbrook. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Estella Doll Smith; two sons Ernest E., Progress, and Kenneth; two sisters,
Mrs. John Hurly, Highland Park; Mrs. Harry McElwee, Newville; three brothers,
Walter and Irvin of Carlisle, and Charles of Abbotsville.
Hugh Stephen
The Adams Centinel, Gettysburg, PA
April 22, 1801
Harrisburg, April 15
A melancholy occurance to the family of Mr. Hugh Stephen, who moved from
this town a few days since, on their way to Somerset - a small distance from
Strasburgh, the wagon overset, by which truly unfortunate accident, Mrs.
Stephen and two small children were killed on the spot.
Jesse L. Stevenson
Taken From Pottstown Mercury (Pottstown, Pennsylvania)
August 9, 1948
Hershey, Aug 8 (AP) - Jesse L. Stevenson, 30, Hummelstown, was killed today when his automobile crashed into a pole in the Hershey square. He was returning to Hummelstown from Lebanon.