LOCAL MAN KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT, NEAR RUTHERFORD
Early Tuesday morning at 5 o'clock two men walking on the highway near Rutherford, Pa., were struck by an automobile carrying a negro orchestra, enroute from Reading to Harrisburg. The automobile was operated by Elmer B. Dusenberg of Reading and the two men were almost instantly killed.
Efforts to identify the men were unsuccessful until Wednesday when relatives on learning that a letter addressed to Jack Kimberling of Philadelphia, was found in a coat pocket of one of the victims. The relatives visited Harrisburg Wednesday and identified one of the men as James S. Kemberling of Mount Union. The body was claimed and brought to the Funeral Home of W. P. Dunmire, this city, and prepared for burial. The funeral will be held from the home of a sister Miss Alice Kemberling in Mount Union at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Rev. J. Alfred Cox officiating. Burial will follow in the Odd Fellows' cemetery, here.
Mr. Kemberling for some time has been employed as a master mechanic by the Erie Construction Company, and had just completed a contract job near Harrisburg. He had gone to the railroad yards at Rutherford, where the machinery was being loaded on cars to be transported to Philadelphia. He was returning to Harrisburg when he met death. The identity of the other man who was with Kemberling has not been established.
Jerome Kemberling was a son of George and Rachel Kemberling, late of Shade Gap, and was aged about 42 years. He is survived by one brother, George Kemberling, Harrisburg and three sisters, Mrs. Miles Ripple of near Mapleton, Mrs. George Henry of Akron, Ohio, and Miss Alice Kemberling of this city.
Immediately following the accident, Dussenberg stopped his car and loaded the two men into it and started for a Harrisburg hospital. They were dead upon arrival and the accident was reported to State Highway Patrol headquarters in that place. A charge of involuntary manslaughter was lodged against Dussenberg, pending an investigation and the action of the coroner's jury. Dussenberg furnished bail for his appearance.
According to the statement of Dussenberg the two men were walking in the center of the highway, at a point where mist was heavy in a dip in the highway. He did not see them until he was too close to avoid striking them. Then they became confused seized one another by the arm, and finally dashed to the right of the road directly in the path of the car.
An examination disclosed that both men had suffered fractured skulls, and in addition Kimberling had suffered internal injuries and a fractured leg.
- Mount Union Times, Mount Union, Pennsylvania, Friday, 21 March 1930
Early Tuesday morning at 5 o'clock two men walking on the highway near Rutherford, Pa., were struck by an automobile carrying a negro orchestra, enroute from Reading to Harrisburg. The automobile was operated by Elmer B. Dusenberg of Reading and the two men were almost instantly killed.
Efforts to identify the men were unsuccessful until Wednesday when relatives on learning that a letter addressed to Jack Kimberling of Philadelphia, was found in a coat pocket of one of the victims. The relatives visited Harrisburg Wednesday and identified one of the men as James S. Kemberling of Mount Union. The body was claimed and brought to the Funeral Home of W. P. Dunmire, this city, and prepared for burial. The funeral will be held from the home of a sister Miss Alice Kemberling in Mount Union at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Rev. J. Alfred Cox officiating. Burial will follow in the Odd Fellows' cemetery, here.
Mr. Kemberling for some time has been employed as a master mechanic by the Erie Construction Company, and had just completed a contract job near Harrisburg. He had gone to the railroad yards at Rutherford, where the machinery was being loaded on cars to be transported to Philadelphia. He was returning to Harrisburg when he met death. The identity of the other man who was with Kemberling has not been established.
Jerome Kemberling was a son of George and Rachel Kemberling, late of Shade Gap, and was aged about 42 years. He is survived by one brother, George Kemberling, Harrisburg and three sisters, Mrs. Miles Ripple of near Mapleton, Mrs. George Henry of Akron, Ohio, and Miss Alice Kemberling of this city.
Immediately following the accident, Dussenberg stopped his car and loaded the two men into it and started for a Harrisburg hospital. They were dead upon arrival and the accident was reported to State Highway Patrol headquarters in that place. A charge of involuntary manslaughter was lodged against Dussenberg, pending an investigation and the action of the coroner's jury. Dussenberg furnished bail for his appearance.
According to the statement of Dussenberg the two men were walking in the center of the highway, at a point where mist was heavy in a dip in the highway. He did not see them until he was too close to avoid striking them. Then they became confused seized one another by the arm, and finally dashed to the right of the road directly in the path of the car.
An examination disclosed that both men had suffered fractured skulls, and in addition Kimberling had suffered internal injuries and a fractured leg.
- Mount Union Times, Mount Union, Pennsylvania, Friday, 21 March 1930
LOCAL MAN KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT, NEAR RUTHERFORD
Early Tuesday morning at 5 o'clock two men walking on the highway near Rutherford, Pa., were struck by an automobile carrying a negro orchestra, enroute from Reading to Harrisburg. The automobile was operated by Elmer B. Dusenberg of Reading and the two men were almost instantly killed.
Efforts to identify the men were unsuccessful until Wednesday when relatives on learning that a letter addressed to Jack Kimberling of Philadelphia, was found in a coat pocket of one of the victims. The relatives visited Harrisburg Wednesday and identified one of the men as James S. Kemberling of Mount Union. The body was claimed and brought to the Funeral Home of W. P. Dunmire, this city, and prepared for burial. The funeral will be held from the home of a sister Miss Alice Kemberling in Mount Union at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Rev. J. Alfred Cox officiating. Burial will follow in the Odd Fellows' cemetery, here.
Mr. Kemberling for some time has been employed as a master mechanic by the Erie Construction Company, and had just completed a contract job near Harrisburg. He had gone to the railroad yards at Rutherford, where the machinery was being loaded on cars to be transported to Philadelphia. He was returning to Harrisburg when he met death. The identity of the other man who was with Kemberling has not been established.
Jerome Kemberling was a son of George and Rachel Kemberling, late of Shade Gap, and was aged about 42 years. He is survived by one brother, George Kemberling, Harrisburg and three sisters, Mrs. Miles Ripple of near Mapleton, Mrs. George Henry of Akron, Ohio, and Miss Alice Kemberling of this city.
Immediately following the accident, Dussenberg stopped his car and loaded the two men into it and started for a Harrisburg hospital. They were dead upon arrival and the accident was reported to State Highway Patrol headquarters in that place. A charge of involuntary manslaughter was lodged against Dussenberg, pending an investigation and the action of the coroner's jury. Dussenberg furnished bail for his appearance.
According to the statement of Dussenberg the two men were walking in the center of the highway, at a point where mist was heavy in a dip in the highway. He did not see them until he was too close to avoid striking them. Then they became confused seized one another by the arm, and finally dashed to the right of the road directly in the path of the car.
An examination disclosed that both men had suffered fractured skulls, and in addition Kimberling had suffered internal injuries and a fractured leg.
- Mount Union Times, Mount Union, Pennsylvania, Friday, 21 March 1930
Early Tuesday morning at 5 o'clock two men walking on the highway near Rutherford, Pa., were struck by an automobile carrying a negro orchestra, enroute from Reading to Harrisburg. The automobile was operated by Elmer B. Dusenberg of Reading and the two men were almost instantly killed.
Efforts to identify the men were unsuccessful until Wednesday when relatives on learning that a letter addressed to Jack Kimberling of Philadelphia, was found in a coat pocket of one of the victims. The relatives visited Harrisburg Wednesday and identified one of the men as James S. Kemberling of Mount Union. The body was claimed and brought to the Funeral Home of W. P. Dunmire, this city, and prepared for burial. The funeral will be held from the home of a sister Miss Alice Kemberling in Mount Union at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Rev. J. Alfred Cox officiating. Burial will follow in the Odd Fellows' cemetery, here.
Mr. Kemberling for some time has been employed as a master mechanic by the Erie Construction Company, and had just completed a contract job near Harrisburg. He had gone to the railroad yards at Rutherford, where the machinery was being loaded on cars to be transported to Philadelphia. He was returning to Harrisburg when he met death. The identity of the other man who was with Kemberling has not been established.
Jerome Kemberling was a son of George and Rachel Kemberling, late of Shade Gap, and was aged about 42 years. He is survived by one brother, George Kemberling, Harrisburg and three sisters, Mrs. Miles Ripple of near Mapleton, Mrs. George Henry of Akron, Ohio, and Miss Alice Kemberling of this city.
Immediately following the accident, Dussenberg stopped his car and loaded the two men into it and started for a Harrisburg hospital. They were dead upon arrival and the accident was reported to State Highway Patrol headquarters in that place. A charge of involuntary manslaughter was lodged against Dussenberg, pending an investigation and the action of the coroner's jury. Dussenberg furnished bail for his appearance.
According to the statement of Dussenberg the two men were walking in the center of the highway, at a point where mist was heavy in a dip in the highway. He did not see them until he was too close to avoid striking them. Then they became confused seized one another by the arm, and finally dashed to the right of the road directly in the path of the car.
An examination disclosed that both men had suffered fractured skulls, and in addition Kimberling had suffered internal injuries and a fractured leg.
- Mount Union Times, Mount Union, Pennsylvania, Friday, 21 March 1930
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