Swept from the side of an automobile when the machine sideswiped a telephone pole, JOHN ROHRER, 28, of 111 Elizabeth Street, was killed almost instantly at 6:45 o'clock this morning. The accident took place on Walnut Lane near the intersection with South Prospect street.
Walter R. Bowers, driver of the car, is being detained by police pending the outcome of a coroner's inquest. Rohrer, Bowers and five other occupants of the small coupe were enroute to work on the Western Pike road contract, going by the way of Williamsport and Kemp's Mill.
Rohrer suffered a fractured skull and died within a few minutes, it was reported.
Rohrer was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church.
He is survived by his wife, Louella; son, John, Jr.; mother, Mrs. Clara Rohrer, Hagerstown; brother, Ernest L.; and three sisters, Mrs. W.L. Cosey, Mrs. C.E. Gordon and Miss Alice Rohrer, all of Hagerstown.
Funeral announcements later.
Source: Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Wednesday, August 3, 1938
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Walter R. Bowers, driver of the car, is being detained by police pending the outcome of a coroner's inquest. Rohrer, Bowers and five other occupants of the small coupe were enroute to work on the Western Pike road contract, going by the way of Williamsport and Kemp's Mill.
Rohrer suffered a fractured skull and died within a few minutes, it was reported.
Rohrer was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church.
He is survived by his wife, Louella; son, John, Jr.; mother, Mrs. Clara Rohrer, Hagerstown; brother, Ernest L.; and three sisters, Mrs. W.L. Cosey, Mrs. C.E. Gordon and Miss Alice Rohrer, all of Hagerstown.
Funeral announcements later.
Source: Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Wednesday, August 3, 1938
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Swept from the side of an automobile when the machine sideswiped a telephone pole, JOHN ROHRER, 28, of 111 Elizabeth Street, was killed almost instantly at 6:45 o'clock this morning. The accident took place on Walnut Lane near the intersection with South Prospect street.
Walter R. Bowers, driver of the car, is being detained by police pending the outcome of a coroner's inquest. Rohrer, Bowers and five other occupants of the small coupe were enroute to work on the Western Pike road contract, going by the way of Williamsport and Kemp's Mill.
Rohrer suffered a fractured skull and died within a few minutes, it was reported.
Rohrer was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church.
He is survived by his wife, Louella; son, John, Jr.; mother, Mrs. Clara Rohrer, Hagerstown; brother, Ernest L.; and three sisters, Mrs. W.L. Cosey, Mrs. C.E. Gordon and Miss Alice Rohrer, all of Hagerstown.
Funeral announcements later.
Source: Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Wednesday, August 3, 1938
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Walter R. Bowers, driver of the car, is being detained by police pending the outcome of a coroner's inquest. Rohrer, Bowers and five other occupants of the small coupe were enroute to work on the Western Pike road contract, going by the way of Williamsport and Kemp's Mill.
Rohrer suffered a fractured skull and died within a few minutes, it was reported.
Rohrer was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church.
He is survived by his wife, Louella; son, John, Jr.; mother, Mrs. Clara Rohrer, Hagerstown; brother, Ernest L.; and three sisters, Mrs. W.L. Cosey, Mrs. C.E. Gordon and Miss Alice Rohrer, all of Hagerstown.
Funeral announcements later.
Source: Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Wednesday, August 3, 1938
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