TWO MEN MEET DEATH UNDER TONS OF METAL
Archie E. Corll, 22 years old, of 102 St. Louis avenue, was instantly killed and Paul W. Weimer, 21 years old, of 143 Garfield street, was fatally injured and died in the City hospital, in an accident Saturday afternoon shortly after 3 o'clock at the plant of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, East Youngstown.
The men were caught under a dozen or more huge slabs of iron weighing tons that in some unexplainable manner became dislodged from a flat car on the narrow gauge railroad and toppled over upon them as they were at work making a water line connection on a gas box that was alongside the tracks.
The accident happened in the skelp yards near the No. 3 mill. the metal slabs were piled on the flat car to a height of about three and a half feet. There was no idea that the arranging of them was insecure and the men probably gave no regard to the car as they began their work.
What caused the plates to slide is unknown. It is believed that a slight jar given the car might have started them, although this was made by one of the workmen is a mystery. The car was not connected with any other car and outside of the two men who were at work no other person was near.
The plates crashed down without warning, the top ones sliding first and bringing the rest with them. Corll was caught squarely under the immense weight and he was so badly crushed that death came instantaneously. Weimer was rushed to the City hospital, but efforts to save him were futile and he died half and hour after being admitted.
Coroner C.M. Kyne was notified of the accident and made an investigation, but could find no cause for the plates becoming dislodged. He said he would not hold an inquest.
The body of Corll was removed to the morgue of Gillen-McVean and later sent to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Corll, St. Louis avenue, where the young man and his bride of a few months made their home. The news of the death has prostrated the father, mother and widow and came as a severe shock to the friends of the young man.
The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the parents' home, burial to be made in Oak Hill cemetery.
Source: Youngstown Vindicator, Monday Oct. 18 1909, page 3.
