Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-09-27
AUTO CRUSHES
LIFE OUT Of
H. FRANK TRIGGS
Unusual Accident BefaIls a Well

known County Farmer.
Tenant On Farm, Near Big Spring,
Rides Part Way Home In c. M.
Lsmar's Automobile and Jumps
With Fatal Effect Before Car Stops
Second Violent Death In Family
Within TWO Years.
II. Frank Triggs. 46 years old. a
tenant on the Charles J. Seibert farm
on the Winchester pike, about mile
and half south OF town, was instant
ly killed by being run over by an au-
tOmobile within few feet of his front
yard gate Thursday evening a few min
utes after 4 O'Clock. This paper was
then anly able 10 state the bare fact
that the man was killed The circum-
stances OF the sad occurrence are as
follows..
AS Messrs. Roscoe Lamar and Edgar
Ashcom reached the tollgate at the
south edge Of town on their way to
Inwood, Mr. Triggs, then returning
home from town, was standing on the
platform at the toll house. He asked
Mr. Lamar to allow him to ride home
in his car, request the latter readily
granted. But instead of taking the
rear seat as he was invited to do. Mr..
Triggs stood on the foot board. When
within about fifty feet OF his front gate
and just as the auto had begun to slow
up, Triggs stepped off the foot board.
But when his feet struck the ground
he fell and was rolled under the car
for some little distance, and the next
instant the hind wheel Of the heavy
machine passed over his head, crush
ing his skull breaking the jaw bone.
arm and shoulder blade. besides scrap
ing the hair and cuticle from a large
part of his scalp. Death was almost
instantaneous.
DR.. A. Bruce Eagle happened along
La minute or two later on his way out
the pike He stopped and upon exam
nation pronounced the man dead.
Coroner W. R. Kline was at once no.
titled by telephone and was soon on
the scene. He ordered the body.
which was lying in a pool of blood
along side of the pike, carried into the
house closely. After learning fully
Of the circumstances of the accident
he decided an inquest to be mneces-
sary because it was purely accidental
and that no blame could be attached
to Mr.. Lamar The latter said he in
tended to stop the car at Mr.. Triggs'
gate and let him Off, but the man did
not wait for him to do so.
Undertaken Wilen afterwards re-
moved the body to his establishment
and prepared it for burial
Mr.. Trigss leaves a wife. who was
Miss Eva Hess, of this county, and
seven children; Jere, Pearl, Fannie
Otto, Ida, Boyd and Walter, all at
home; brother William Triggs, in
Wood county, Ohio, and sister Mrs
Harry Stevens of Gerrardstown The
deceased was the son Of Jere Triggs
and was born at Bunker Hill. He re-
sided on Mr.. Seiberts farm for the
past six years. He was a member of
the Christian church and was an hon
est and industrious man, esteemed by
all who knew him.
This is the second distressing death
in the family within two years. On
the 14th OF October 1910 Mr. Triggs
son, Henry Lewis Triggs, a deaf mute
about 20 years of age, was killed by
a Cumberland Valley passenger train
while he was walking along the tracks
at the south edge of town Now the
head of the family is called away by
a death quite as shocking.
The funeral will be held Sunday af-
ternoon at 2.3O o'clock in the Chris
tian church, conducted by Rev, w. A.
Roush. lnterment in the graveyard
at the Tuscarora Presbyterian church.