OBIT: Mary WEISER, 1930, York, York County, PA

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Mrs. Mary Weiser Killed in Crash

One woman was killed and two were seriously injured Wednesday night at 9:12 
o'clock, when the Air Line Limited of the Pennsylvania Railroad company struck 
an automobile owned by Mrs. Emma Tresselt, of York, at the Main street crossing 
at Glen Rock.  The women members of the degree team of Nittannis council, Degree 
of Pocahontas, were returning from Glen Rock, where they had installed officers.

The dead:

Mrs. Mary Weiser, 60 years old, York, who had a broken neck, left leg cut off, a 
hole in the frontal bone of the skull and bruises about the body, was instantly 
killed.

The injured in the York hospital:

Mrs. Emma Tresselt, 58 years old, a deep laceration on the right side of the 
scalp, possible fractures of ribs on the right side of the body and bruises 
about the body.

Mrs. Howard (Lillie) Klinedinst, 52 years old, York, suffering from a fracture 
of the right clavical and bruises of the body.


Dragged 1,120 Feet

Mrs. Tresselt, driving a Willys-Knight sedan, stopped at the Main street 
crossing to allow a Baltimore bound train to pass the crossing.  The danger 
signals at the crossing were flickering, warning of danger.

As the last coach on the Baltimore bound train, No. 974, passed the crossing, 
Mrs. Tresselt is said by witnesses to have started to drive over the crossing, 
with the signals still flashing red to warn of the train approaching in the 
opposite direction.

The Tresselt auto was carried a distance of 1,120 feet before the engineer was 
able to bring it to a stop.  All of the occupants of the car were pinned inside 
the wreckage and had to be extricated from the completely demolished car.

News Comet, East Berlin, PA, October 17, 1930