Robert B. allen

The Mountain Democrat

Saturday, June 13, 1903

Another Life Crushed Out

An accident occurred at Camp 2 near the Mosquito bridge on Thursday when _________ whereby Robert B. Allen lost his life. Men were at work constructing the ditch which is to convey the water for the electric light company and when engaged is blasting out stumps. Allen and a companion who were working forty or fifty feet from where the blast ______ looking up saw a large stump coming through the air, they ran in different directions but Allen's proved to be the fatal way as the stump caught him and crushed his skull. The coroner went out and took charge of the remains and an effort will doubtless be made to locate his friends, though no trace of any more relatives could be found from letters and other effects found among his belongings. It would seem that he was a man of marked literary ability and was the author of various bits of ______ and short stores, some of which had been accepted by the leading journals of the state. It was a sad and cruel ending of a life that promised much.