OBIT:  LONES, Philip; Johnstown, Cambria Cnty., PA; 1910

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Volume 44, Number 33
Friday, 26 Aug 1910


Meets Terrible Death

An awful death overtook Philip Lones, a young machinist of Johnstown 
yesterday morning when he was whirled around a rapidly revolving shaft of 
a lathe at the new machine shop of the Cambria Steel Company.  His head 
repeatedly struck the hard flooring and projectiles about the machine and 
just above the eyes contains a deep hole which extends about four or five 
inches through the skull and permitted his brains to ooze out.  His right 
leg was broken and his entire body is a mass of bruises.  The young man's 
over clothing caught in the belt and with a pitiful scream, he was drawn 
up and around time and time again before other workmen could stop the 
machine.  He was killed before the lathe was stopped. A brother works in 
the same plant and was there when the body was taken down.  Fortunately he 
did not see the accident. Lones was 30 years old and lived with his 
mother.