Clearfield-Blair-Centre County PA Archives News.....Bald Eagle Woman Is Killed By Bus May 15, 1944
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Tyrone Daily Herald  Tyrone,Pa  Monday May 15, 1944 May 15, 1944
Tyrone Daily Herald  Tyrone Pa.  Monday, May 15, 1944

Bald Eagle Woman is Killed By Bus

Mrs. Ruth Dunlap Fatally Hurt Near Ebensburg

Mrs. Ruth R. Dunlap, 48, residing near Bald Eagle was almost instantly killed 
on Saturday evening at 5:15 o’clock when she was struck by the Greyhound bus 
on which she had been a passenger a few seconds before the front and back 
right wheels of the buss passing over her body on the William Penn highway 
about one mile west of  Ebensburg.  Mrs. Dunlap was enroute to visit with her 
sister near Ebensburg when the tragedy occurred.
Mrs. Dunlap got off the bus at its regular stop in front of Penn Gates near 
Ebensburg and apparently walked around in front of the bus last night.
The bus had pulled off the highway and was partly on the highway and on the 
berm. Mrs. Dunlap going to cross the highway and was going west as was the 
bus. Toward the service station which is operated by her sister and which was 
about 100 yards from the scene of the accident.
The bus driver told police he felt his front wheel bump and thought he had 
passed over a stone. On feeling the back wheel bump he glanced in the mirror 
of the bus and saw the woman lying on her back on the highway.
Mr. Dunlap’s left foot was severed, her pelvis was crushed and she suffered 
internal injuries.
The woman was only five feet tall and the bus operator Benjamin T. Williams, 
Greensburg told state police he did not see her as she walked in front of the 
bust and didn’t realize he had struck her until he saw her through the mirror. 
The bus was pulling out onto the highway an was traveling only approximately 2 
miles an hour at the time of the accident he said.
Coroner Patrick McDermott will hold an inquire (con’t page 3)

Bald Eagle Woman is Killed By Bus
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Mrs. Dunlap was born in Ginter, Clearfield County, December 23, 1895, the 
daughter of William T. and Adeline (Higgins) Richards.  She is the wife of 
Martin Dunlap and her husband with two children survive.  They are Anna Mae 
and Robert both at home.
Also surviving are the following brothers and sisters: Ellsworth R. Richards, 
Ebenburg; Mrs. Dorothy Mayes, R.D. Ebensburg; who Mrs. Dunlap was going to 
visit, Charles W. Richards, Houtzdale and Carl Richards, Ginter.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1 p.m. at the Askew Funeral 
home in Ebensburg with the Rev. J. Leo Ferguson of the Ebensburg Christian 
Chruch in charge. Interment will be in Grandview cemetery Tyrone.
Mrs. Dunlap was a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church of Tyrone.
The body may be viewed at Grandview cemetery on Tuesday afternoon from four to 
4;15 o’clock just prior to burial.


Additional Comments:
Mother's name misspelled should be Adelaide. Mrs.Ruth R. (Richards)Dunlap's 
son's given name is Ellsworth Robert Dunlap.

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