OBIT: Frank SHULTZ, 1920, Edge Grove, Adams County, PA

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SHUTLZ’S BODY IS FOUND IN RUINS OF FACTORY FIRE

Missing Adams County Man Was Burned to Death in Hanover Fire

WAS SEEKING AN EXIT BY BASEMENT WINDOWS

Trunk and Upper Part of Body Were All That Remained of Body

Hanover, March 18 – The body of Frank Shultz, of Edge Grove, the man who was 
burned to death in the recent fire at the Haffelfinger wall paper factory, was 
found on Sunday morning in the ruins of the burned factory, about 11 o’clock, by 
Fire Chief Frank B. Scheivert.

The body was first noticed by Mr. Scheivert as he saw what he believed and 
afterwards probed to be, the ribs of a human body.  It was lying about 15 feet 
forward of the engine room and about the same distance in from the wall on the 
Pennsylvania railroad side, lying and partly concealed under the ruins, and the 
weight of several large machines.

Calling Charles Storm, who was also searching the ruins, he pointed the object 
out to him and then crawled in through the tangled mass of iron and made a 
closer investigation that revealed other portions of the man’s body.

After securing assistance from the other firemen, the machinery, ash and debris 
were removed and word sent for W. A. Feiser, a local undertaker, to come and 
superintend the removal of the body.  The trunk and upper part of the legs were 
all that were left of the body, of which there was nothing left to identify it 
by.  A button and overall buckle were all that could be found of his clothing.

The body was lying on the back, with the head toward the railroad, creating the 
impression that he may have been seeking an exit from the basement window on 
that side, after finding his escape cut off on the other side.  It now appears 
that he was seeking his clothing which he kept in that corner of the basement.

After being taken from the ruins, the body was placed in a rubber covered basket 
and carried from the ruins into the undestroyed part of the building nearby, 
where he remained until 2 o’clock, when permission was given for its removal by 
Coroner F. V. McConley, York, who arrived to view it.  He deemed an inquest 
unnecessary.

Mr. Shultz is survived by a wife and one son, Charles, a brother, Father Jerome 
Shultz, who is rector of a Catholic mission in Birmingham, Alabama.

Adams County Independent – Friday, April, 19, 1920