Son of Ralph Emerson and Iva Blake (Eastman) Ellingsworth; Married 8/20/1907
The Telephone Register, McMinnville, Oregon, Thursday, May 16, 1946
3 HIGH SCHOOL YOUTHS KILLED NEAR GASTON
Three Gaston high school students died and three were seriously injured Wednesday afternoon when their auto and a truck crashed on the Wapato-Newberg highway in the county's worst auto tragedy of 1946.
The dead are Mary King, 17, Ralph Ellingsworth, 18, and Charles Turner, 18. The injured, all being treated at a Newberg hospital are Carl Hering, 17, Ralph Hatfield, 16, and Don McMahon, 14. Extent of the living's injuries has not yet been determined.
The crash occurred about five miles southewest of Gaston when the car, driven by Ellingsworth, collided with a truck piloted by Fred Ortman of Newberg. The sedan, carrying the youths to a baseball game scheduled at Sherwood, struck a corner of the oncoming truck's platform bed and careened off the road into a field. Ortman was unhurt.
According to reports of investigating state police officers, the Gaston auto is owned by Mrs. May King of that place. Three ambulances were called to the scene to transport the injured to the hospital.
The Telephone Register, McMinnville, Oregon, Thursday, May 16, 1946
3 HIGH SCHOOL YOUTHS KILLED NEAR GASTON
Three Gaston high school students died and three were seriously injured Wednesday afternoon when their auto and a truck crashed on the Wapato-Newberg highway in the county's worst auto tragedy of 1946.
The dead are Mary King, 17, Ralph Ellingsworth, 18, and Charles Turner, 18. The injured, all being treated at a Newberg hospital are Carl Hering, 17, Ralph Hatfield, 16, and Don McMahon, 14. Extent of the living's injuries has not yet been determined.
The crash occurred about five miles southewest of Gaston when the car, driven by Ellingsworth, collided with a truck piloted by Fred Ortman of Newberg. The sedan, carrying the youths to a baseball game scheduled at Sherwood, struck a corner of the oncoming truck's platform bed and careened off the road into a field. Ortman was unhurt.
According to reports of investigating state police officers, the Gaston auto is owned by Mrs. May King of that place. Three ambulances were called to the scene to transport the injured to the hospital.
Son of Ralph Emerson and Iva Blake (Eastman) Ellingsworth; Married 8/20/1907
The Telephone Register, McMinnville, Oregon, Thursday, May 16, 1946
3 HIGH SCHOOL YOUTHS KILLED NEAR GASTON
Three Gaston high school students died and three were seriously injured Wednesday afternoon when their auto and a truck crashed on the Wapato-Newberg highway in the county's worst auto tragedy of 1946.
The dead are Mary King, 17, Ralph Ellingsworth, 18, and Charles Turner, 18. The injured, all being treated at a Newberg hospital are Carl Hering, 17, Ralph Hatfield, 16, and Don McMahon, 14. Extent of the living's injuries has not yet been determined.
The crash occurred about five miles southewest of Gaston when the car, driven by Ellingsworth, collided with a truck piloted by Fred Ortman of Newberg. The sedan, carrying the youths to a baseball game scheduled at Sherwood, struck a corner of the oncoming truck's platform bed and careened off the road into a field. Ortman was unhurt.
According to reports of investigating state police officers, the Gaston auto is owned by Mrs. May King of that place. Three ambulances were called to the scene to transport the injured to the hospital.
The Telephone Register, McMinnville, Oregon, Thursday, May 16, 1946
3 HIGH SCHOOL YOUTHS KILLED NEAR GASTON
Three Gaston high school students died and three were seriously injured Wednesday afternoon when their auto and a truck crashed on the Wapato-Newberg highway in the county's worst auto tragedy of 1946.
The dead are Mary King, 17, Ralph Ellingsworth, 18, and Charles Turner, 18. The injured, all being treated at a Newberg hospital are Carl Hering, 17, Ralph Hatfield, 16, and Don McMahon, 14. Extent of the living's injuries has not yet been determined.
The crash occurred about five miles southewest of Gaston when the car, driven by Ellingsworth, collided with a truck piloted by Fred Ortman of Newberg. The sedan, carrying the youths to a baseball game scheduled at Sherwood, struck a corner of the oncoming truck's platform bed and careened off the road into a field. Ortman was unhurt.
According to reports of investigating state police officers, the Gaston auto is owned by Mrs. May King of that place. Three ambulances were called to the scene to transport the injured to the hospital.
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