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Surnames: WEATHERLY, YEAGER, SMOCK, STAPP
Classification: Death
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Note: I am not related to any of these families--I found this while looking for something
else and am posting this to help others.
from The Republican (Danville, Indiana)--issue of Thursday, January 23, 1919--page 1,
column 6:
THREE MEN KILLED
J. Floyd Weatherly, of West Newton; Albert Yeager, of West Newton; Albert Smock, of Camby,
were instantly killed Monday morning at Maywood when a Martinsville limited car, of which
Peter C. Stapp, formerly of Danville, was motorman, struck the truck in which the men were
riding, all being seated on the driver's seat. Mr. Stapp tried to stop the traction
car. Whether the men thought they could beat the car to the crossing or that the car
would stop at the Maywood station will never be known. The coroner of Marion county
exonerated Mr. Stapp from all blame.