The death of Albert Williams was reported in the Elizabethville Echo, 6 July 1899:
Killed at Lykens
Lykens, 3 July 1899 — Albert W. Williams, a young man about 25 years of age, was instantly killed being run over by the small locomotive at Short Mountain Colliery at 10 o’clock yesterday morning. Mr. Williams is employed during Sunday as watchman at the colliery, and during the morning runs the locomotive to draw one trip of ash from the boilers. He had made his run and was taking the locomotive to the engine house when the accident occurred.
No one witnessed the accident and so it can only be conjectured how it occurred. It is supposed that he ran ahead of the engine while it was moving to turn switches, and then in endeavoring to step on the engine his foot slipped and he was drawn under the engine and crushed between the ash pan and and a frog of the railroad.
Mr. Williams was married last March to Miss Annie Lebo, of this place, and the young couple were living with his parents. The deceased was a member of the Knights of Pythias, Knights of the Golden Eagle, Improved Order Heptasophs, and of the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor, Zion’s Evangelical Lutheran Church. Of a genial disposition he was very popular among young people, by whom he will be greatly missed.
The funeral will be held Tuesday, 4 July 1899, at 3:30 o’clock. Interment in Odd Fellows’ Cemetery. The bereaved parents and wife have the sympathy of the entire community.
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