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Easton Daily Express, Wednesday Evening, July 7, 1915, page 5
Easton Moose Killed on pike
Howard Paulus and His Nephew Meet Death When Auto Struck Trolley
Howard W. Paulus, of Nazareth, a member of the Easton Lodge of Moose, and his nephew, Harvey Rothrock, a boy of four years, were killed when the automobile of Clinton O. Rothrock, the boy’s father, ran into a trolley car of the Lehigh Valley Transit Company on the Rittersville pike early last evening. Mr. Paulus was frightfully mutilate and was dead when found. The boy died an hour later in the Allentown Hospital.
The accident happened as Mr. Rothrock was about to put his car way before taking supper, his plan having been to take the Paulus family to their home at Nazareth in the evening. Mr. Paulus, who was 37 years old, was a cement burner for the Nazareth Cement company. His home was at 133 Prospect Street, in Nazareth. He was enjoying his first vacation since working for the company. He had a week off and was to report for duty again today. Mr. Paulus spent Monday with his brother, Charles Paulus, at Bethlehem and yesterday he went to Rittersville to visit his sister, who is the wife of Mr. Rothrock. With Mr. Paulus on the trip were his wife and their daughters, Mildred, aged 14, Florence, aged 11, and Anna, aged two.
The Paulus family spent the day at the Rothrock home on Pike avenue, formerly known as Snyder’s Lane. It being the first street of Columbus avenue, the Rothrock home being directly behind the home of John Snyder, along the pike.
Just as the car got to the pike a trolley car, No. 603, came along, west bound, It was an open car of the Liberty Bell Type, and it was running along at a good rate of speed. Whether the motorman sounded a warning signal or not is in question. People in the neighborhood of the accident say that he did not. But it is possible that they were mistaken. The clerk in the store of H. A. Benner, nearby, who heard the crash, said he could not tell whether the whistle or gong was sounded. So many cars pass there continually that’s it impossible to tell whether any one of them attends all the usual warning signs.
The six occupants of the automobile were catapulted out of the wrecked car and thrown a considerable distance. Mr. Paulus was hurled in the full width of the Ebelshouser property, a distance of about sixty feet and lay alongside of the north rail of the trolley track. His face was stove in, his nose broken, and the right cheek crushed. His right arm was mashed between the elbow and the wrist, and his left leg was cut off between the ankle and the knee.
Mr. Rothrock had a most fortunate escape from instant death. He sustained a cut of two and a half inches over the right eye and a cut on the left wrists. There was also a slight bruise on the right foreman.
Mr. Rothrock’s son Harvey was found under the wreckage and it was seen at glance that he was very badly hurt. He was rushed to Allentown Hospital, where he died an hour later.
Little Girls’ Narrow escape
The most remarkable escape of all was that of the little girls, who sat with their ill fated father on the tonneau. All three were thrown out and they landed on the embankment along the Ebelshouse home. How they escaped injury was well nigh miraculous. As it is they were so little hurt that their injuries were scarcely worth noting. Mildred had her right knee slightly hurt. Florence had her back jarred. Anna had a slight cut o the bridge of the nose. Their clothing was also soiled in the contact with the street.
Howard Paulus was a son of Mrs. Hattie and the late Martin Paulus, of Tatamy, and was born march 1, 1873. He was an expert cement burner and was employed by the Nazareth Cement Company. He was married to Miss Addie Eberts, daughter of Henry Eberts. She survives with the three daughters named above. The oldest will enter the High school at Nazareth when the next term opens. Deceased was a brother, of Charles Paulus, of Bethlehem, Mrs. Rothrock, Mrs. Andrew Doremus, of Tatamy, and Mrs. Flora, wife of Charles Ruth, of Elton, Md. The latter is here on a visit at present. Mr. Paulus was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, at Nazareth. |
