OBIT: Irwin BLANK, 1914, Hooversville, Somerset County, PA

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Blank, Irwin

  While Irwin Blank, assistant foreman of the Stonycreek mine of the 
Knickerbocker Smokeless Coal Company at Hooversville was walking into the mine 
through main entrance Friday afternoon, a section of the roof came down and Mr. 
Blank was instantly killed. Clyde Berkey, the mine foreman, who accompanied 
Blake and was only a few steps in the rear, miraculously escaped a similar fate. 
The roof of the entrance had been tested at regular intervals, it is declared 
and at no time was there any evidence that it had cracked or that there was any 
danger of a fall. It is said there was not the slightest warning when the roof 
came down upon Blank, who was buried under several tons of rock and earth; his 
neck was broken and his back badly crushed. The fall missed foreman Berkey by 
only a few feet. Mr. Blank was about 28 years of age and with his wife and two 
children made his home with Mrs. Blake's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Meyers, who 
reside about a mile from Hooversville and to whose residence, the remains were 
taken. He was a brother of George Blake of Hooversville and his sisters reside 
in New Castle and Kansas. The funeral took place Monday afternoon.

Meyersdale Commercial, Oct. 29, 1914