OBIT: Augustine LUTHER, 1891, Carrolltown, Cambria County, PA

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The Body Recovered.

  Johnstown Tribune, April 14: On the 20th day of February Augustine 
Luther, who was employed by Mr. J. A. Shoemaker at the Coopersdale 
Morrellville bridge, was drowned in the Conemaugh river by the 
capsizing of a coat.  Search was made for the body without avail and a 
reward of $25 for the recovery of the body was offered.  On Saturday 
evening about 4 o'clock it was found by James Mardis and three other 
men lodged in a clump of willows at Conemaugh Furnace, on the Indiana 
side of the river.  It was taken from the river and put in a box and 
word sent to J. W. Luther, the Clinton street tinner, a cousin of the 
deceased.  He and Undertaker Howe, Louis Dopp and Mr. Howe's driver 
went down and brought the remains up.  They were prepared for burial 
and this forenoon were forwarded to Carrolltown for interment.  The 
face was very much swollen, but otherwise the body was well preserved.
  Deceased was the son of the late J. W. Luther, and made his home with 
his mother in Carrolltown.  He was about 19 years of age.  He was six 
feet two inches in height and finely proportioned.  When found all the 
clothing was on the body.  One gum boot was missing.  The only thing in 
the pockets was a brass key, although it is said that the young man had 
over one hundred dollars with him at the time he was drowned.  The 
reward of twenty-five dollars will be paid Mardis and those who were 
with him when the body was found.  Undertaker Howe, J. W. Luther and 
Mr. Jacob Kress accompanied the remains to Carrolltown.  Interment will 
be made this afternoon.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, April 16, 1891