RAILROAD WORKMAN CRUSHED TO DEATH BY BARREL
WAS ASSISTING FELLOW WORKMEN TAKE BARREL TO STATION CELLAR
SURVIVED BY WIFE, AND FIVE CHILDREN
Elmer Travitz, who resides at Millersburg, and employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad for a number of years was killed at the freight station, town [Elizabethville], this morning, while he and three other workmen were about to take a barrel of roofing tar down the steep and narrow stairway into the cellar of the station. Travitz and his fellow worker were in front of the barrel and two more men behind it, and when it started, the men lost control of the heavy barrel, and as it crashed down the narrow stairway, Travitz was pinned against the concrete wall at the bottom of the steps, left his arm badly crushed and nearly cut off by the sharp end of the barrel, a gash on the right side of his hear. It is thought he suffered a concussion of the brain, his scull being fractured. The left eye was also badly injured.
The accident happened about 10:20 this Thursday morning. Funeral Director Minier of Millersburg was notified and took the body to the Travitz home in North Millersburg, near the Oak Hill Cemetery.
Coroner Kreider was also notified and although it is thought an inquest will not be necessary, should the need arise, it no doubt will be held Saturday or Monday.
Deceased was 42 years of age and is survived by his wife and five children, three brothers: James Travitz, William Travitz, and Charles Travitz, and four sisters, two of them living in Western states. As we go to press, funeral arrangements have not bee made.
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From a local newspaper at the time of his death, 1926.
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