OBIT:  McNAIN, David; 1909; Patton, Cambria Cnty., PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich

Copyright 2010.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/


Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 22 Jan 1909
Volume 43, Number 4


Fatal Injury Follows Sixty Years in Mine

Patton, Jan. 21 -- David McNain, a man who has been 
employed in the soft coal mines for almost sixty years, was 
caught in a fall of rock in the mines near this place and 
so badly injured that he died at the Spangler hospital. Mr. 
McNain was seventy years of age.  He had begun work as a 
trapper boy at ten years of age and had worked underground 
almost constantly since that time. He was known as a very 
careful miner but in some way he was caught by a fall of 
rock and two of his ribs were broken when he was otherwise 
badly crushed and bruised. Mr. Murray attended him and at 
once directed that he be taken to the hospital, but it was 
impossible to save his life.