OBIT: Adam WILKINS, 1916, Hooversville, Somerset County, PA

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Wilkins, Adam

BOY TRIES TO SAVE MAN - Fourteen Year Old Lad Heroically Works in Vain to 
Prevent Adam Wilkins Being Ground to Pieces - The heroic efforts of 14 year old 
Frank Oeschlarger to save Adam Wilkins, aged 45, from being ground to death by 
the wheels of a Baltimore & Ohio engine at Hooversville, Thursday evening, came 
to naught. The boy saw Wilkins staggering on the track and a moment later he 
heard the shrill blast of a locomotive whistle as a freight train approached. 
The lad tried to drag the man from the track but the man was heavy and the boy 
frail. Running down the track the boy made frantic efforts to signal the 
engineer but it was dark and the train came on and the man was ground to pieces. 
It is said that Wilkins had been drinking. The body was terribly mangled. 
Wilkins was a miner for the Baker-Whitley Coal Company. He had been in town all 
day and was on his way home but wondered on the railroad. He leaves a widow and 
nine children.

Meyersdale Commercial, Feb. 24, 1916