OBIT: Margaret BROWN, 1940, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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MARGARET BROWN

One Killed and Another Injured While Coasting
14-Year-Old Margaret Brown Crashed Into Truck on Keystone Street

  Meyersdale's first serious sled-riding accident happened about 6:20 Wednesday 
evening when Margaret Brown, aged 14, daughter of Frank H. and Catherine (Smith) 
Brown, lost her life when she and a companion crashed into a large truck driven 
by S. F. Weidner, on Keystone Street.
  Margaret Brown and a friend, Betty Fike, were coasting in an alley which 
extends from the Union Cemetery hill to Keystone Street when Weidner's truck 
came along.  Weidner said that he applied the brakes as soon as he saw the girls 
on their sled suddenly emerge from the blind alley, but the heavy truck skidded 
sidewise on the icy street and the sled crashed directly into the right rear 
wheel.
  The Brown child died almost instantly, but the Fike girl escaped with minor 
injuries.  Coroner F. E. Sass, who conducted an investigation, said the Brown 
girl died of a skull fracture, sustained when her head struck against the rear 
wheel of the heavy truck.
  Margaret Brown is the third oldest of eleven children.  She is survived by her 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Brown of Keystone Street, and the following 
brothers and sisters: Betty, Ralph, Evelyn, Robert, Nina, Kenneth, Donald, 
Mildred, Frank, Jr., and Grace, all at home.
  The child's body was removed to the W. C. Price & Son mortuary.  S. F. 
Weidner, aged 20, the driver of the truck, was not held.  He resides on R. D. 3, 
Meyersdale.

Meyersdale Republican, January 4, 1940