FALLS TO HIS DEATH
Benjamin R. Deitrich, a young single man of Lykens, fell 200 feet into a slope at Short Mountain Colliery at Lykens last Monday, and died on Tuesday morning, from the terrible injuries he sustained.
Deitrich was only twenty-two years of age and was the sole supporter of his aged grandmother, who lives in West Lykens. He had been employed in the mine for several years and was a good workman. It is said he was soon to have been married. How he came to fall no one knows, but he was found at the bottom of the slope with his skull crushed and several bones broken. He was living, in insensible, when he was removed to his home, and never regained consciousness. He belonged to a number of the lodges at Lykens. He was a nephew to ‘Squire Simon Deitrich of Deitrich [Dietrich] Post Office.
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From the Elizabethville Echo, August 7, 1903, via Newspapers.com.
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