OBIT: Waleyan DRACZ, 1915, Coal Run, Somerset County, PA

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Dracz, Waleyan

MINER CRUSHED TO DEATH. A Foreigner at Coal Run Meets Death Tuesday From Being 
Injured Between Cars in the Mines. TWO SONS IN OLD COUNTRY, Waleyan Dracz, an 
Austrian Pole, met with an accident Tuesday at 1:30 p. m. while working in the 
mines at Coal Run, which resulted in his death an hour later. The unfortunate 
man who was 46 years of age, was crushed between two loaded mine cars. 
Undertaker Price, of Meyersdale, took charge of the remains. The funeral took 
place today with interment at West Salisbury, Rev. Father Quinn officiating. 
There survive in the family the wife a daughter aged 18 years and an infant of 
three months. Two sons are in the old country.

Meyersdale Commercial, Aug. 19, 1915