OBIT: Henry Meyers BROADWATER, 1940, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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HENRY MEYERS BROADWATER

Grantsville, Maryland

  Henry Meyers Broadwater died at the Allegany Hospital, Cumberland, about 8 
o'clock Monday morning, Feb. 5, following an accident.  A runaway coal truck 
crushed him against the side of a house.
  The accident occurred at the home of a nephew, Randolph Beachy, near the 
Celanese Plant, where he had been visiting.  Beachy, who owns the truck, is 
employed at the Celanese Plant and hauls coal in his spare time.  Mr. 
Broadwater, who resides at Avilton, a few miles east of here, had driven the 
two-ton truck, loaded with coal, from here on Saturday.  The loaded truck was 
parked at the rear of the house on a slight grade.  Mr. Broadwater started to 
move it to the other side of the house to unload the coal, but for some reason 
alighted, leaving the motor running, and was in front of the machine when the 
emergency brake evidently slipped.  The heavy truck started to roll down the 
grade and Mr. Broadwater ran to stop it.  He apparently slipped and fell on the 
icy ground and before he could get up the front of the machine crushed him 
against the house.  Before he lost consciousness, he called for help and young 
Fred Deneen, who lived nearby, ran to his rescue, but the injured man was 
unconscious by the time Deneen could back the truck and free him.
  He was rushed to the hospital where it was found he had sustained a broken 
neck, a fractured pelvis, and had suffered internal injuries.  He died about 
forty minutes after he was admitted to the hospital.  His body was removed to 
the Winterberg Morgue where it was prepared for burial.
  Mr. Broadwater was 41 years of age.  He was born in this section, June 13, 
1898, a son of the late James and Ollie Ross Broadwater.  His mother died when 
he was quite young and Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Durst, New Germany, raised him.  He 
lived in this community practically all of his life.  He was well known and had 
a wide circle of friends.  He was a carpenter by trade and for some time had 
made his home at Avilton with his sister, Mrs. Wilfred Garlitz, who survives 
him.  He also leaves one brother, Cornelius Broadwater, Mt. Pleasant, and 
another sister, Mrs. James Rankin, Lonaconing.  He was unmarried.
  Funeral services were conducted Saturday morning, February 10, at the New 
Germany Methodist Church, by Rev. D. R. Carder, pastor.  Interment was in the 
adjoining cemetery under the direction of William Winterberg, local mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, February 15, 1940