OBIT: Earl BRILL, 1940, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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EARL BRILL

Fatally Injured in Auto Wreck

  Injuries suffered early Wednesday morning in an automobile accident near 
Rockwood brought death to 17-year-old Earl Brill of Somerset about 3 Wednesday 
afternoon while his three companions recovering from less serious injuries, were 
uninformed of the youth's death.
  The quartet of Somerset youths were injured, Brill fatally, when the sedan in 
which they were riding overturned on a curve a mile north of Rockwood on the 
Water Level Road early Wednesday morning. 
  Brill was most seriously injured and died without regaining consciousness.  
Those recuperating in the Somerset Community Hospital are: Robert Menser, 18, of 
Stoystown Road; Richard Wolfe, 15, of South Franklin Street, and Kenneth Cowher, 
18, of West Fairview Street.
  Physicians described injuries which later caused Brill's death as a possible 
fracture of the skull, brain concussion, lacerations of the scalp, nose and 
face.  He was unconscious when admitted to the hospital shortly before 2 
Wednesday morning and never regained consciousness.
  Brill was a passenger in the car said to be operated by Robert Menser.  Menser 
was reported to have told police officers his car failed to negotiate a curve, 
left the highway and overturned several times down the right-side embankment 
along the highway.
  Menser suffered a concussion of the brain, lacerations of the left hand and 
was reported in fair condition at the Somerset Community Hospital Wednesday 
evening.  Richard Wolfe, 15, a second year Somerset High School student, 
suffered a fracture of the right hip, and contusions and abrasions of the back.  
His condition was reported as good.
  The fourth occupant of the car, Kenneth Cowher, an employe of Kosch's Drug 
Store, escaped with lacerations about the scalp and body bruises.  His condition 
was reported as good.  All were confined at the hospital.  Early Wednesday 
evening the three survivors, who escaped death in the badly crushed car, had not 
been informed of Brill's death, it was said.

Meyersdale Republican, June 20, 1940