OBIT: Solomon MARTZ, 1940, Glencoe, Somerset County, PA

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SOLOMON MARTZ

Sol Martz Hit by B. & O Train
Mutilated Body Was Dragged Several Hundred Yards Under Train

  While on the way to a neighbor living across the tracks. Solomon Martz, an 
aged resident of Glencoe, last Saturday morning lost his life when run down by a 
B. & O. freight train.  His body was badly mangled and lacerated when retrieved 
from beneath the long string of freight cars several hundred yards down the 
track.
  Solomon Martz was aged 81 years, and for many years has lived alone.  He was 
never married.  It is believed he was on his way to a neighbors to get some 
bread at about 6:45 Saturday morning and due to the infirmities of old age did 
not hear or see the oncoming train.
  The engineer on the train said that he saw the aged man start across the 
tracks in front of the train but could not bring the train to a stop soon enough 
to avoid the accident.
  Mr. Martz's head and chest were crushed and both legs and arms were fractured.  
His remains were turned over to undertaker Johnson & Son of Berlin and the 
corpse was not visible to friends and neighbors before burial in the Mt. Lebanon 
Cemetery on Monday afternoon.  Funeral services were conducted in the 
Evangelical and Reformed Church at Glencoe at 2 o'clock Monday.
  Solomon Martz was a son of George and Rachel (Boyer) Martz, both deceased.  He 
is survived by a brother, Herman Martz, of Scottdale.  He was a familiar 
character of the Glencoe community and well known to every railroader who passed 
through this little mountain village.

Meyersdale Republican, October 17, 1940