OBIT: Clark M. SWAUGER, 1946, of interest in Somerset County, PA 

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Second Fatality at New Jennings Fire Brick Plant
Clark M. Swauger Fatally Injured by Falling Off a Kiln

  GRANTSVILLE, Md., July 24 - Clark M. Swauger, returned World War II veteran, 
son of Mrs. Lillie Hare Swauger and the late John Swauger of Jennings, was 
seriously injured about 9 o'clock Monday morning when he fell 15 feet from a 
kiln onto the cement floor at the Union Fire Brick Company plant at Jennings.
  The unfortunate young man was assisting a plumber with some work on top of a 
kiln and probably inhaled some gas which overcame him and caused him to fall.  
He suffered a fracture of the skull.
  He was rushed to the Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, in Wm. Winterberg's 
ambulance, and died about 4 o'clock in the afternoon without recovering 
consciousness.
  Funeral services will be held in the Jennings Lutheran Church, Thursday 
morning, July 25, at 10 o'clock.  Rev. C. H. Runze, pastor of the Bittinger 
Lutheran parish will officiate.  Interment in the Bittinger Lutheran cemetery.
  Clark M. Swauger was born Dec. 7, 1915, near Grantsville and served over four 
years in the A.A.F.  He was called to service in the U.S. Army in July 1941 and 
was discharged in November, 1945.  He was sent to the Pacific theater of 
operations soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor and served as a mess sergeant.  
He was the wearer of five battle stars, the Good Conduct Medal and several 
campaign ribbons.  He had been employed at the Jennings brick plant since April 
7, 1946.
  Surviving are his mother, these sisters: Mrs. Ethel Seafford, Cumberland; Mrs. 
Rosella Wiley, Holsopple, Pa.; Mrs. Ruth Younkin, Grantsville, and Mrs. Nora 
Beitzel and three brothers, Elmer and Clarence of Jennings, and Albert, 
Grantsville.
  This was the second fatal accident at the Union Fire Brick Co.'s large plant 
at Jennings.  Galen Beachy Jr., having been instantly killed while at work there 
while the plant was under construction, last March 15th.

Meyersdale Republican, July 25, 1946