Decision as to the cause of the accident in which Luther B. Sweigert, 41, World War veteran, was fatally hurt Sunday evening, will be withheld until the recovery of the four persons who were less seriously injured, Justice Sweeney announced today. The collision of the two cars, one of which was driven by Sweigert, occurred on the Western pike near Hopewell about 5.30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Sweigert died an hour later at the hospital from a fractured skull.
Sweigert, whose address was 530 Chestnut Street, was enroute to Hagerstown with two passengers from the Legion picnic at Brewers farm, along the Conococheague Creek, when the accident occurred. According to Deputy Renner, who made an investigation, Sweigert, eastbound, had passed the automobile operated by John Gouff, on a slight hill and crashed head-on into the car operated by Miss Harris in an opposite direction.
Sweigert was a member of Zion Reformed Church, the J. Spangler Kieffer Bible Class, American Legion, 40 and 8 and the American Legion Drum Corps. He served 10 months overseas during the World War. For several years he was in charge of the Legion Home on West Antietam Street.
Besides his wife, Mary J. Sweigert, he is survived by three children, Luther, Jr., Phyllis and Robert; father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Sweigert, Mason Dixon; half-brothers, Charles, Arby and Daywalt, all of this city; half-sister, Mrs. Julia Harbaugh, Mason-Dixon.
Services were held at the Coffman Funeral Home. Interment in Rose Hill Cemetery. Members of Morris Frock Post attended in a body and had charge of the service.
Source: Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Monday, July 17, 1933
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Sweigert, whose address was 530 Chestnut Street, was enroute to Hagerstown with two passengers from the Legion picnic at Brewers farm, along the Conococheague Creek, when the accident occurred. According to Deputy Renner, who made an investigation, Sweigert, eastbound, had passed the automobile operated by John Gouff, on a slight hill and crashed head-on into the car operated by Miss Harris in an opposite direction.
Sweigert was a member of Zion Reformed Church, the J. Spangler Kieffer Bible Class, American Legion, 40 and 8 and the American Legion Drum Corps. He served 10 months overseas during the World War. For several years he was in charge of the Legion Home on West Antietam Street.
Besides his wife, Mary J. Sweigert, he is survived by three children, Luther, Jr., Phyllis and Robert; father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Sweigert, Mason Dixon; half-brothers, Charles, Arby and Daywalt, all of this city; half-sister, Mrs. Julia Harbaugh, Mason-Dixon.
Services were held at the Coffman Funeral Home. Interment in Rose Hill Cemetery. Members of Morris Frock Post attended in a body and had charge of the service.
Source: Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Monday, July 17, 1933
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Decision as to the cause of the accident in which Luther B. Sweigert, 41, World War veteran, was fatally hurt Sunday evening, will be withheld until the recovery of the four persons who were less seriously injured, Justice Sweeney announced today. The collision of the two cars, one of which was driven by Sweigert, occurred on the Western pike near Hopewell about 5.30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Sweigert died an hour later at the hospital from a fractured skull.
Sweigert, whose address was 530 Chestnut Street, was enroute to Hagerstown with two passengers from the Legion picnic at Brewers farm, along the Conococheague Creek, when the accident occurred. According to Deputy Renner, who made an investigation, Sweigert, eastbound, had passed the automobile operated by John Gouff, on a slight hill and crashed head-on into the car operated by Miss Harris in an opposite direction.
Sweigert was a member of Zion Reformed Church, the J. Spangler Kieffer Bible Class, American Legion, 40 and 8 and the American Legion Drum Corps. He served 10 months overseas during the World War. For several years he was in charge of the Legion Home on West Antietam Street.
Besides his wife, Mary J. Sweigert, he is survived by three children, Luther, Jr., Phyllis and Robert; father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Sweigert, Mason Dixon; half-brothers, Charles, Arby and Daywalt, all of this city; half-sister, Mrs. Julia Harbaugh, Mason-Dixon.
Services were held at the Coffman Funeral Home. Interment in Rose Hill Cemetery. Members of Morris Frock Post attended in a body and had charge of the service.
Source: Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Monday, July 17, 1933
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Sweigert, whose address was 530 Chestnut Street, was enroute to Hagerstown with two passengers from the Legion picnic at Brewers farm, along the Conococheague Creek, when the accident occurred. According to Deputy Renner, who made an investigation, Sweigert, eastbound, had passed the automobile operated by John Gouff, on a slight hill and crashed head-on into the car operated by Miss Harris in an opposite direction.
Sweigert was a member of Zion Reformed Church, the J. Spangler Kieffer Bible Class, American Legion, 40 and 8 and the American Legion Drum Corps. He served 10 months overseas during the World War. For several years he was in charge of the Legion Home on West Antietam Street.
Besides his wife, Mary J. Sweigert, he is survived by three children, Luther, Jr., Phyllis and Robert; father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Sweigert, Mason Dixon; half-brothers, Charles, Arby and Daywalt, all of this city; half-sister, Mrs. Julia Harbaugh, Mason-Dixon.
Services were held at the Coffman Funeral Home. Interment in Rose Hill Cemetery. Members of Morris Frock Post attended in a body and had charge of the service.
Source: Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Monday, July 17, 1933
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