Son of Rolla Ralph Ellis and Gladys Rozella Fast.
Two Brothers Meet Death At Bottom of Deep Ravine
smothered In The Mud Under Blind Horse
One of the saddest and most tragic fatal accidents ever to be recorded in Adams county occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rolla Ellis, three miles southwest of Brooks about seven o'clock last Friday evening, when two young sons, Ellis Lloyd Earl, 10 and Rolla Robert, 5 met death by suffocation when a 16 year old blind mare which they were riding in a pasture fell on them in a muddy ditch. Both boys were evidently thrown into the ditch and the old mare fell on top of them.
When the boys failed to return to the house after they were seen riding in the pasture, their father started in search of them. In a very few minutes he came upon the tragic scene. He found the blind horse floundering in the bottom of the ditch with her feet in the air, but unable to extricate herself. Mr. Ellis could see the legs of the boys sticking from beneath the horse and he could hear the oldest boy, Lloyd moaning indicating that the lad was still alive. No sound, however came from Rolla and it is believed that youngest lad died almost instantly.
Mr. Ellis made frantic efforts to remove the horse or pull the boys free, but he was unable to do either. Seeing that his efforts were in vain, he ran back to the house. Mrs. Ellis, who had been helping her husband with the chores, hearing her husband's shouts for help started toward the pasture and met her husband some distance from the house. He immediately told her what had happened and instructed her to phone the neighbors for help and also call a doctor.
Mr. Ellis immediately cranked up his tractor and started back to the scene of the accident. Before he reached the boys, Lowell Wilson and Mike Spring, nearest neighbors to the east had arrived on the scene and Wilson took charge of the tractor while Ellis and Spring opened the bar lot gates for him. Meanwhile Sam Trabride, Fred Hanzie, and son Bob, Henry Walter, all of whom had been informed of the accident by Mrs. Ellis arrived on the scene. The men fastened a cable on the hind legs of the old mare and with the power of the tractor turned her over in the ditch and removed her from on top of the boys. The men paid no further attention to the horse, but spent all their efforts getting the boys out of the mud and up onto the bank of the deep ravine. The mother was also at the scene of the tragedy and took the youngest lad in her arms as he was handed out of the ditch by Mr. Trombridge. She placed Rolla on the grass and started giving the boy artificial respiration by bending the arms and legs as is done in cases of drowning. One of the men did like wise with the older boy. Those present taking turns kept up these frantic efforts until Dr. W. F. Amdor of Carbon and Dr. J. H. Wallhan of Corning arrived. The physicians continued the artificial respiration efforts, but it was soon plain to all present that both boys were beyond help. Coroner Boyd N, Roland of Corning was notified and after arriving at the Ellis home and investigating the circumstances of the death, stated that an inquest would not be necessary. Coroner Roland stated that the bodies of the boys were not badly crushed and in his opinion both died from suffocation.
After the bodies had been removed to the house, placed in the ambulance and brought to Corning, the men then went back to the scene of the accident and completed the job of removing the horse from the ditch. The animal had been moved in such a way that she was able to get on her feet through her own efforts. An attempt was made to lead the animal from the ditch and it had reached the top of the south bank of the ravine when one foot became entangled in the cable which had been used to remove her from the boys and she again fell back into the ditch. It was then necessary to place the cable about the animal and drag her out of the ditch with the tractor. The animal was apparently not injured in any way, except for a slight burn on the left hind foot from the cable used in dragging her off the boys.
The Ellis family had spent a part of the afternoon in town and arrived home Friday evening shortly after six o'clock. Lloyd, the oldest boy visited the auditor's office at the court house in Corning late Friday afternoon and very proudly collected the bounty on several pairs of gopher feet which he had turned in. He signed the receipt for the money himself and like most boys of that age felt very proud over the fact that he was earning some spending money on his own. Lloyd was an unusually dependable boy, possibly a little larger than normal for a boy of 10 years and he was just beginning to be considerable assistance to his father about the farm. Mr. Ellis purchased a new tractor this spring and Lloyd was very proud of the fact that his father occasionally allowed him to guide the tractor under the father's supervision.
After returning home, the family immediately turned their attention to the task of doing the evening chores. The blind mare which was in the fatal accident, was grazing in a pasture a short distance west of the house. It had been the custom of Mr. Ellis to bring the old mare in each night and turn her in a small pasture on the hill northeast of the house. All of the Ellis children had been accustomed to riding the mare about the farm as the animal was very quiet and docile. It was never necessary for the children to use a saddle or bridle while riding the animal. Friday evening, Mr. Ellis instructed Lloyd and Rolla Jr. to bring the animal from the west pasture to the barn for her water and then as usual turn her into the east pasture. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis stood in the barn lot waiting for the two boys to come from the west pasture on the horse. They noted that Rolla, the youngest had had considerable....unable to read:
Lloyd Earl Ellis was born on a farm in Lincoln township northwest of Carbon, November 23, 1927. The family moved to the community southwest of Brooks, about nine years ago, farming one year on the Maine farm, then moving to the present location where they have lived the past eight years. Rolla Robert Ellis was born on the farm where his parents now reside, September 12, 1931. Lloyd has just completed the fifth grade work at the Oak Dale School, just east of where the family resides. Rolla had not yet get started school, but expected to begin in the fall.
They are survived by their parents, two brother and two sisters, Lola, 12, Vern LeRoy, 7, Floyd O. , 3, and Ruth Esteleen, 1; They were also preceded in death by one brother, Ralph Bradford. Also by their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Fast of Mt. Etna, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis and Mrs. Nora Ellis.
The services for Lloyd and Rolla were held from the M. E. Church at 2 o'clock, Monday afternoon with Rev. N. P. Orcutt in charge. Interment was made in the Qunicy Cemetery.
Adams County Free Press, Thursday, May 27, 1937, page 1 & 10
Two Brothers Meet Death At Bottom of Deep Ravine
smothered In The Mud Under Blind Horse
One of the saddest and most tragic fatal accidents ever to be recorded in Adams county occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rolla Ellis, three miles southwest of Brooks about seven o'clock last Friday evening, when two young sons, Ellis Lloyd Earl, 10 and Rolla Robert, 5 met death by suffocation when a 16 year old blind mare which they were riding in a pasture fell on them in a muddy ditch. Both boys were evidently thrown into the ditch and the old mare fell on top of them.
When the boys failed to return to the house after they were seen riding in the pasture, their father started in search of them. In a very few minutes he came upon the tragic scene. He found the blind horse floundering in the bottom of the ditch with her feet in the air, but unable to extricate herself. Mr. Ellis could see the legs of the boys sticking from beneath the horse and he could hear the oldest boy, Lloyd moaning indicating that the lad was still alive. No sound, however came from Rolla and it is believed that youngest lad died almost instantly.
Mr. Ellis made frantic efforts to remove the horse or pull the boys free, but he was unable to do either. Seeing that his efforts were in vain, he ran back to the house. Mrs. Ellis, who had been helping her husband with the chores, hearing her husband's shouts for help started toward the pasture and met her husband some distance from the house. He immediately told her what had happened and instructed her to phone the neighbors for help and also call a doctor.
Mr. Ellis immediately cranked up his tractor and started back to the scene of the accident. Before he reached the boys, Lowell Wilson and Mike Spring, nearest neighbors to the east had arrived on the scene and Wilson took charge of the tractor while Ellis and Spring opened the bar lot gates for him. Meanwhile Sam Trabride, Fred Hanzie, and son Bob, Henry Walter, all of whom had been informed of the accident by Mrs. Ellis arrived on the scene. The men fastened a cable on the hind legs of the old mare and with the power of the tractor turned her over in the ditch and removed her from on top of the boys. The men paid no further attention to the horse, but spent all their efforts getting the boys out of the mud and up onto the bank of the deep ravine. The mother was also at the scene of the tragedy and took the youngest lad in her arms as he was handed out of the ditch by Mr. Trombridge. She placed Rolla on the grass and started giving the boy artificial respiration by bending the arms and legs as is done in cases of drowning. One of the men did like wise with the older boy. Those present taking turns kept up these frantic efforts until Dr. W. F. Amdor of Carbon and Dr. J. H. Wallhan of Corning arrived. The physicians continued the artificial respiration efforts, but it was soon plain to all present that both boys were beyond help. Coroner Boyd N, Roland of Corning was notified and after arriving at the Ellis home and investigating the circumstances of the death, stated that an inquest would not be necessary. Coroner Roland stated that the bodies of the boys were not badly crushed and in his opinion both died from suffocation.
After the bodies had been removed to the house, placed in the ambulance and brought to Corning, the men then went back to the scene of the accident and completed the job of removing the horse from the ditch. The animal had been moved in such a way that she was able to get on her feet through her own efforts. An attempt was made to lead the animal from the ditch and it had reached the top of the south bank of the ravine when one foot became entangled in the cable which had been used to remove her from the boys and she again fell back into the ditch. It was then necessary to place the cable about the animal and drag her out of the ditch with the tractor. The animal was apparently not injured in any way, except for a slight burn on the left hind foot from the cable used in dragging her off the boys.
The Ellis family had spent a part of the afternoon in town and arrived home Friday evening shortly after six o'clock. Lloyd, the oldest boy visited the auditor's office at the court house in Corning late Friday afternoon and very proudly collected the bounty on several pairs of gopher feet which he had turned in. He signed the receipt for the money himself and like most boys of that age felt very proud over the fact that he was earning some spending money on his own. Lloyd was an unusually dependable boy, possibly a little larger than normal for a boy of 10 years and he was just beginning to be considerable assistance to his father about the farm. Mr. Ellis purchased a new tractor this spring and Lloyd was very proud of the fact that his father occasionally allowed him to guide the tractor under the father's supervision.
After returning home, the family immediately turned their attention to the task of doing the evening chores. The blind mare which was in the fatal accident, was grazing in a pasture a short distance west of the house. It had been the custom of Mr. Ellis to bring the old mare in each night and turn her in a small pasture on the hill northeast of the house. All of the Ellis children had been accustomed to riding the mare about the farm as the animal was very quiet and docile. It was never necessary for the children to use a saddle or bridle while riding the animal. Friday evening, Mr. Ellis instructed Lloyd and Rolla Jr. to bring the animal from the west pasture to the barn for her water and then as usual turn her into the east pasture. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis stood in the barn lot waiting for the two boys to come from the west pasture on the horse. They noted that Rolla, the youngest had had considerable....unable to read:
Lloyd Earl Ellis was born on a farm in Lincoln township northwest of Carbon, November 23, 1927. The family moved to the community southwest of Brooks, about nine years ago, farming one year on the Maine farm, then moving to the present location where they have lived the past eight years. Rolla Robert Ellis was born on the farm where his parents now reside, September 12, 1931. Lloyd has just completed the fifth grade work at the Oak Dale School, just east of where the family resides. Rolla had not yet get started school, but expected to begin in the fall.
They are survived by their parents, two brother and two sisters, Lola, 12, Vern LeRoy, 7, Floyd O. , 3, and Ruth Esteleen, 1; They were also preceded in death by one brother, Ralph Bradford. Also by their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Fast of Mt. Etna, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis and Mrs. Nora Ellis.
The services for Lloyd and Rolla were held from the M. E. Church at 2 o'clock, Monday afternoon with Rev. N. P. Orcutt in charge. Interment was made in the Qunicy Cemetery.
Adams County Free Press, Thursday, May 27, 1937, page 1 & 10
Son of Rolla Ralph Ellis and Gladys Rozella Fast.
Two Brothers Meet Death At Bottom of Deep Ravine
smothered In The Mud Under Blind Horse
One of the saddest and most tragic fatal accidents ever to be recorded in Adams county occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rolla Ellis, three miles southwest of Brooks about seven o'clock last Friday evening, when two young sons, Ellis Lloyd Earl, 10 and Rolla Robert, 5 met death by suffocation when a 16 year old blind mare which they were riding in a pasture fell on them in a muddy ditch. Both boys were evidently thrown into the ditch and the old mare fell on top of them.
When the boys failed to return to the house after they were seen riding in the pasture, their father started in search of them. In a very few minutes he came upon the tragic scene. He found the blind horse floundering in the bottom of the ditch with her feet in the air, but unable to extricate herself. Mr. Ellis could see the legs of the boys sticking from beneath the horse and he could hear the oldest boy, Lloyd moaning indicating that the lad was still alive. No sound, however came from Rolla and it is believed that youngest lad died almost instantly.
Mr. Ellis made frantic efforts to remove the horse or pull the boys free, but he was unable to do either. Seeing that his efforts were in vain, he ran back to the house. Mrs. Ellis, who had been helping her husband with the chores, hearing her husband's shouts for help started toward the pasture and met her husband some distance from the house. He immediately told her what had happened and instructed her to phone the neighbors for help and also call a doctor.
Mr. Ellis immediately cranked up his tractor and started back to the scene of the accident. Before he reached the boys, Lowell Wilson and Mike Spring, nearest neighbors to the east had arrived on the scene and Wilson took charge of the tractor while Ellis and Spring opened the bar lot gates for him. Meanwhile Sam Trabride, Fred Hanzie, and son Bob, Henry Walter, all of whom had been informed of the accident by Mrs. Ellis arrived on the scene. The men fastened a cable on the hind legs of the old mare and with the power of the tractor turned her over in the ditch and removed her from on top of the boys. The men paid no further attention to the horse, but spent all their efforts getting the boys out of the mud and up onto the bank of the deep ravine. The mother was also at the scene of the tragedy and took the youngest lad in her arms as he was handed out of the ditch by Mr. Trombridge. She placed Rolla on the grass and started giving the boy artificial respiration by bending the arms and legs as is done in cases of drowning. One of the men did like wise with the older boy. Those present taking turns kept up these frantic efforts until Dr. W. F. Amdor of Carbon and Dr. J. H. Wallhan of Corning arrived. The physicians continued the artificial respiration efforts, but it was soon plain to all present that both boys were beyond help. Coroner Boyd N, Roland of Corning was notified and after arriving at the Ellis home and investigating the circumstances of the death, stated that an inquest would not be necessary. Coroner Roland stated that the bodies of the boys were not badly crushed and in his opinion both died from suffocation.
After the bodies had been removed to the house, placed in the ambulance and brought to Corning, the men then went back to the scene of the accident and completed the job of removing the horse from the ditch. The animal had been moved in such a way that she was able to get on her feet through her own efforts. An attempt was made to lead the animal from the ditch and it had reached the top of the south bank of the ravine when one foot became entangled in the cable which had been used to remove her from the boys and she again fell back into the ditch. It was then necessary to place the cable about the animal and drag her out of the ditch with the tractor. The animal was apparently not injured in any way, except for a slight burn on the left hind foot from the cable used in dragging her off the boys.
The Ellis family had spent a part of the afternoon in town and arrived home Friday evening shortly after six o'clock. Lloyd, the oldest boy visited the auditor's office at the court house in Corning late Friday afternoon and very proudly collected the bounty on several pairs of gopher feet which he had turned in. He signed the receipt for the money himself and like most boys of that age felt very proud over the fact that he was earning some spending money on his own. Lloyd was an unusually dependable boy, possibly a little larger than normal for a boy of 10 years and he was just beginning to be considerable assistance to his father about the farm. Mr. Ellis purchased a new tractor this spring and Lloyd was very proud of the fact that his father occasionally allowed him to guide the tractor under the father's supervision.
After returning home, the family immediately turned their attention to the task of doing the evening chores. The blind mare which was in the fatal accident, was grazing in a pasture a short distance west of the house. It had been the custom of Mr. Ellis to bring the old mare in each night and turn her in a small pasture on the hill northeast of the house. All of the Ellis children had been accustomed to riding the mare about the farm as the animal was very quiet and docile. It was never necessary for the children to use a saddle or bridle while riding the animal. Friday evening, Mr. Ellis instructed Lloyd and Rolla Jr. to bring the animal from the west pasture to the barn for her water and then as usual turn her into the east pasture. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis stood in the barn lot waiting for the two boys to come from the west pasture on the horse. They noted that Rolla, the youngest had had considerable....unable to read:
Lloyd Earl Ellis was born on a farm in Lincoln township northwest of Carbon, November 23, 1927. The family moved to the community southwest of Brooks, about nine years ago, farming one year on the Maine farm, then moving to the present location where they have lived the past eight years. Rolla Robert Ellis was born on the farm where his parents now reside, September 12, 1931. Lloyd has just completed the fifth grade work at the Oak Dale School, just east of where the family resides. Rolla had not yet get started school, but expected to begin in the fall.
They are survived by their parents, two brother and two sisters, Lola, 12, Vern LeRoy, 7, Floyd O. , 3, and Ruth Esteleen, 1; They were also preceded in death by one brother, Ralph Bradford. Also by their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Fast of Mt. Etna, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis and Mrs. Nora Ellis.
The services for Lloyd and Rolla were held from the M. E. Church at 2 o'clock, Monday afternoon with Rev. N. P. Orcutt in charge. Interment was made in the Qunicy Cemetery.
Adams County Free Press, Thursday, May 27, 1937, page 1 & 10
Two Brothers Meet Death At Bottom of Deep Ravine
smothered In The Mud Under Blind Horse
One of the saddest and most tragic fatal accidents ever to be recorded in Adams county occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rolla Ellis, three miles southwest of Brooks about seven o'clock last Friday evening, when two young sons, Ellis Lloyd Earl, 10 and Rolla Robert, 5 met death by suffocation when a 16 year old blind mare which they were riding in a pasture fell on them in a muddy ditch. Both boys were evidently thrown into the ditch and the old mare fell on top of them.
When the boys failed to return to the house after they were seen riding in the pasture, their father started in search of them. In a very few minutes he came upon the tragic scene. He found the blind horse floundering in the bottom of the ditch with her feet in the air, but unable to extricate herself. Mr. Ellis could see the legs of the boys sticking from beneath the horse and he could hear the oldest boy, Lloyd moaning indicating that the lad was still alive. No sound, however came from Rolla and it is believed that youngest lad died almost instantly.
Mr. Ellis made frantic efforts to remove the horse or pull the boys free, but he was unable to do either. Seeing that his efforts were in vain, he ran back to the house. Mrs. Ellis, who had been helping her husband with the chores, hearing her husband's shouts for help started toward the pasture and met her husband some distance from the house. He immediately told her what had happened and instructed her to phone the neighbors for help and also call a doctor.
Mr. Ellis immediately cranked up his tractor and started back to the scene of the accident. Before he reached the boys, Lowell Wilson and Mike Spring, nearest neighbors to the east had arrived on the scene and Wilson took charge of the tractor while Ellis and Spring opened the bar lot gates for him. Meanwhile Sam Trabride, Fred Hanzie, and son Bob, Henry Walter, all of whom had been informed of the accident by Mrs. Ellis arrived on the scene. The men fastened a cable on the hind legs of the old mare and with the power of the tractor turned her over in the ditch and removed her from on top of the boys. The men paid no further attention to the horse, but spent all their efforts getting the boys out of the mud and up onto the bank of the deep ravine. The mother was also at the scene of the tragedy and took the youngest lad in her arms as he was handed out of the ditch by Mr. Trombridge. She placed Rolla on the grass and started giving the boy artificial respiration by bending the arms and legs as is done in cases of drowning. One of the men did like wise with the older boy. Those present taking turns kept up these frantic efforts until Dr. W. F. Amdor of Carbon and Dr. J. H. Wallhan of Corning arrived. The physicians continued the artificial respiration efforts, but it was soon plain to all present that both boys were beyond help. Coroner Boyd N, Roland of Corning was notified and after arriving at the Ellis home and investigating the circumstances of the death, stated that an inquest would not be necessary. Coroner Roland stated that the bodies of the boys were not badly crushed and in his opinion both died from suffocation.
After the bodies had been removed to the house, placed in the ambulance and brought to Corning, the men then went back to the scene of the accident and completed the job of removing the horse from the ditch. The animal had been moved in such a way that she was able to get on her feet through her own efforts. An attempt was made to lead the animal from the ditch and it had reached the top of the south bank of the ravine when one foot became entangled in the cable which had been used to remove her from the boys and she again fell back into the ditch. It was then necessary to place the cable about the animal and drag her out of the ditch with the tractor. The animal was apparently not injured in any way, except for a slight burn on the left hind foot from the cable used in dragging her off the boys.
The Ellis family had spent a part of the afternoon in town and arrived home Friday evening shortly after six o'clock. Lloyd, the oldest boy visited the auditor's office at the court house in Corning late Friday afternoon and very proudly collected the bounty on several pairs of gopher feet which he had turned in. He signed the receipt for the money himself and like most boys of that age felt very proud over the fact that he was earning some spending money on his own. Lloyd was an unusually dependable boy, possibly a little larger than normal for a boy of 10 years and he was just beginning to be considerable assistance to his father about the farm. Mr. Ellis purchased a new tractor this spring and Lloyd was very proud of the fact that his father occasionally allowed him to guide the tractor under the father's supervision.
After returning home, the family immediately turned their attention to the task of doing the evening chores. The blind mare which was in the fatal accident, was grazing in a pasture a short distance west of the house. It had been the custom of Mr. Ellis to bring the old mare in each night and turn her in a small pasture on the hill northeast of the house. All of the Ellis children had been accustomed to riding the mare about the farm as the animal was very quiet and docile. It was never necessary for the children to use a saddle or bridle while riding the animal. Friday evening, Mr. Ellis instructed Lloyd and Rolla Jr. to bring the animal from the west pasture to the barn for her water and then as usual turn her into the east pasture. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis stood in the barn lot waiting for the two boys to come from the west pasture on the horse. They noted that Rolla, the youngest had had considerable....unable to read:
Lloyd Earl Ellis was born on a farm in Lincoln township northwest of Carbon, November 23, 1927. The family moved to the community southwest of Brooks, about nine years ago, farming one year on the Maine farm, then moving to the present location where they have lived the past eight years. Rolla Robert Ellis was born on the farm where his parents now reside, September 12, 1931. Lloyd has just completed the fifth grade work at the Oak Dale School, just east of where the family resides. Rolla had not yet get started school, but expected to begin in the fall.
They are survived by their parents, two brother and two sisters, Lola, 12, Vern LeRoy, 7, Floyd O. , 3, and Ruth Esteleen, 1; They were also preceded in death by one brother, Ralph Bradford. Also by their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Fast of Mt. Etna, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis and Mrs. Nora Ellis.
The services for Lloyd and Rolla were held from the M. E. Church at 2 o'clock, Monday afternoon with Rev. N. P. Orcutt in charge. Interment was made in the Qunicy Cemetery.
Adams County Free Press, Thursday, May 27, 1937, page 1 & 10
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