Arizona republican., 1916-02-23
FRANK S|M|THLINE MEETS TERRIBLE
 FATE IN R. B. YARD
We'll Known and We'll Liked Local Businessman Mangled Under Freight Cars; One Saw
 Accident.

Frank Smithline, one of the best was mangled to death under moving cars at the Seventh and Jackson street crossing of the Arizona Eastern between nine and ten o'clock yester- day morning.
 MT Smithline, in charge of the business of Gordon & Smithline, brick manufacturers and contractors. was directing the loading of a car of brick. Just how the accident happened is not quite clear. One of the workman who so far as known now was the only eve witness, that is. of the actual striking of Mr. Smithline, said that word had been brought to him by a trainman engaged in moving cars that that car would be moved A short distance below it was car standing alone. NIr. Smithline walked on the track back of this car and started along the track away from it. When the cars which were being moved had been thrown loose from the engine, they struck the detached car from which MT Smithline was walking away. As the cars were moving un- der their own momentum, there was little noise to attract his attention.
 He could have heard only the impact of the moving cars against the de- tached car and then it was too late. When he was struck he fell, and the workman heard him cry out three or four times as he was being dragged tc his death The cars were stopped after they had moved 15O feet past
 the place where MT. Smithline had been stricken down. The body was taken out most horribly mangled and removed to the undertaking rooms of the Geo. F. Merryman Co. It was reported that another bystander saw | Mir. Smithline step on the track and l before the moving car struck Tim he ! seemed to fall. The inquest will be | held today before Coroner Parker. 1 MT. Smithline was about fifty years
 of age He had been a resident of ! Phoenix and ,icinity for nearly thirty years. He was at first engaged in min 1 ing and with his brother, Charles
 Smithline, he opened the old Tip Top
 mine. Later he came to the city and
 nearly twenty years ago he entered l into a partnership with the late Peter l Gordon in the business of manufactur- 1 ing brick and contracting. This con
 cern became one of the most import ant in that line in the state. Since
 the death of MT. Gordon. not quite year ago. MT. Smithline had had the 1 direction of the business.
 l,., I
 been engaged in various other enter prises. Several years ago he had an
 interest in the Model Grocery on
 North Central avenue in partnership
 with the late John Gray. though he
 did not take an active part in the
 management of it.
 There was no man in Phoenix more
 highly esteemed in business circles
 and by citizens generally. He was al
 ways kind and courteous in his re- lations with all with whom he was brought into contact either in a busi- ness way or socially He had a cheery nod for all acquaintances. He leaves a brother in Nevada. who, having been apprised of his death, is
 already on his way to Phoenix. His brother Charles lives in Iowa, where he moved about four years gao after having disposed of his interests in this vicinity A sister, Mrs. Anna ShupDv, also resides in Iowa, and she too is on her way to Phoenix. Mr. Smithline had been for many years a member of the l. o. o. F. and of the Elks almost ever since the institution of the lodge of the latter in PhoeniX No arrangements will be made for the funeral until after the arrival Of relatives.