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Note: DEATH: Research at Allentown Public Library (ROSE AND JOHN) on 8/1/94 From the Allentown Morning Call
Sunday, October 28, 1928 Page 5 10 YEAR OLD EMAUS GIRL DIES AFTER BEING STRUCK BY TRAIN Little Florence Roberts, Selling Candies for Her Sunday School, Found on
Railroad Tracks Near Her Home --- Discovered by Trainmen --- Child
Dies From Skull Fracture
Struck by a train and fatally injured Saturday afternoon while engaged
in selling candy for her Sunday school class fund, was the sad fate of
ten-year-old Florence Roberts, of near Emaus Junction, who was found
lying along the P. & R. Railway tracks, not far from her home. A train crew saw the little girl between the east and west bound tracks at 4:30
o'clock. She died two hours later in the Allentown hospital from a
fractured skull.
Florence left her home only a few minutes before she was presumably
struck by a westbound freight train. The crew of the train, however,
when informed of the accident, made an examination of their train but
could find no marks that would indicate the engine or any of the cars had struck anyone.
She was on her way to Emaus with a basket of candies on her arm and
was taking a short cut along the tracks to reach the borough where she
hoped to dispose of her ware and add her mite to a fund being raised by
her Sunday school classmates.
When found by an east bound train crew she was lying close to the westbound track and her sweetmeats were scattered for a distance
along the rails. She was unconscious and bleeding from the nose and
ears.
The station agent at Emaus was notified and he called for the city
ambulance, which was in charge of Patrolman Thomas, who sped to
Emaus. In the meantime, however, the injured girl was placed in a machine and she was taken to the hospital by Ralph Cristman, of Topton,
and Harvey Heiser, of this city.
On her arrival at the hospital it was seen she was severely hurt. Her parents were notified and they were at her bedside when she passed
away. She remained unconscious to the end. MORNING CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1928 ROBERTS-In this city, October 27, 1928, Gladys J., daughter of Walter A.
and Blanche S. Stephen Roberts, aged 10 years, 7 months, 3 days. Funeral
services at the home of the parents at Keck's School House near Emaus
on Wednesday at 2 P.M. Relatives, friends, members of Keck's Union
Sunday School are respectively invited without further notice.
Interment in Jordan Reformed Cemetary.
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