One Killed, One Hurt by Falling of a Pole
A falling pole of the Penn Central Light and Power Company Tuesday morning killed Harry Rodgers and perhaps fatally injured Frank Jones along the Jackson pike, two and one half miles from Nant-y-Glo. A number of other men had a narrow escape.
Rodgers was a lineman and Jones a laborer in a gang which had been planting poles between Nant-y-Glo and Summerhill for the purpose of carrying power from Huntingdon into Cambria County. The gang was engaged in setting a pole when one of the pike poles became slackened and the heavy stick fell to the ground. Rodgers’ death was instant, his skull having been crushed in. Jones has a fracture of the pelvis bones and possibly internal injuries.
Rodgers was 26 years of age and unmarried. His home was in Youngstown, O., to which place the remains were shipped. Jones is 26 years old and married. His home is at Mt. Union. |
