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Souder, Ella K. Ruth (1886-1945)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1945 Aug 23 p. 1
Birth date: 1886
text of obituary:
Five Lives Lost in Single Tragedy
AUTOMOBILE STRUCK BY TROLLEY AT LANSDALE, PA., COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED
One of the most tragic accidents in years happened at Lansdale, Pa., Friday, Aug. 3, when five members of the Mrs. Ella K. Sauder family were fatally injured when their car was struck by a trolley at a railroad crossing there.
The following account of the tragedy, submitted by a Review reader, is from the Lansdale paper:
Five members of three generations of a family were killed, or died later, when the auto in which they were riding was struck and completely demolished by a northbound Lehigh Valley Transit Co. trolley at the northern borough limits of Lansdale last Friday night at 8:40 o'clock. The dead are:
