Clarion-Venango County PA Archives Obituaries.....HILLIARD, Harry 1937 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Predmore lday@aol.com March 25, 2005, 3:29 am Cambridge Springs Newspaper 1937 Local Man Dies In Burning Car. Wife Is Injured. Harry Hilliard trapped after accident saturday.Wife In Cambridge Springs Hospital FUNERAL HERE Deputy Coroner C.M. Levine, Cambridge Springs. announced Monday there would be no inquest into the death of Harry Hilliard, 30, American Viscose Company employee and a former resident of Brookville, who was fatally burned last Saturday night when his auto caught fire after an accident south of Cambridge Springs. Mrs. Hilliard, 31, taken unconcious from the overturned car before it was enveloped in flames, today was in a critical condition at Wasson Hospital, Cambridge Springs. She suffered a possible fractured skull, head lacerations, and a crushed chest. She was also burned about the legs when her gasoline-saturated clothes caught fire as the car exploded. She had been dragged off to the side of the road before the explosion, but sparks from the burning car showered her. Privates J.R. Krupy and E. M. Rose of the Meadville barracks, state motor police, said Hilliard's car left the highway at a sharp turn, struck an abutment and rolled over on its side in the middle of the highway. An oncoming car driven by Luman DeLong, Erie, hit the front end of the overturned machine. Hilliard's left wrist was caught in the door of the car and rescuers were unable to free him before the car burst into flame. Mike Boge, Cambridge Springs, a passenger in DeLongs car pulled Mrs. Hilliard from the wreckage. Horrified motorists said Hilliard lived 10 or 15 minutes in the blazing wreckage, while they stood by helpless to aid him. The victim's body was moved to Brookville, where services were held. Hilliard was born in Clarion County, November 3 1907, a son of Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Hilliard and spent his boyhood and later years in Brookville. Ten years ago he became an employee of the Viscose Company at Meadville, met Miss Lillian Rogers of that place and they were married a couple of years ago at Union City. Surviving besides the wife are the following brothers and sisters: Sarah, Mrs. Paul Blake; Mary, wife of Fred Poust, of Kingston; Blanche, wife of Jay Slick, of Pittsburgh, and Robert, John, Betty, and Ruth at home. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb