Scroggins - Frank - Putnam

Frank Scroggins, age 23, employed as an electrician at the Indiana Portland Cement Plant was killed in an accident at the plant at near 10 o’clock Thursday morning, Scoggins resided at Putnamville and had been married for only about four weeks. The death is a peculiar one as there seems to be no real cause for the accident.  Scroggins was on the platform of the traveling crane in the storage house where he was replacing some electric light bulbs. In some unexplainable manner the young man while standing on the platform, fell in front of the moving crane carriage. The carriage hit him with great force but did not run over him.  Immediately the carriage struck Scroggins the operator stopped it and the injured man was lifted from the tracks.  However he had been struck such a severe blow that death soon followed.  The body was brought to Greencastle to the undertaking establishment of Coroner Jacob McCurry.  Scroggins knew that the traveling crane was moving as he had motioned the operator to start it.  It is believed that he suddenly became dizzy and fell in front of the carriage or that he tripped and fell in front of it. - kz