Barbara Marie Allwein daughter of Raphael E. Allwein and Sara M. Carpenter Lebanon Daily News Wednesday Evening August 12, 1942 HEBRON GIRL IS CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER COAL TRUCK CHILD KILLED IN FRONT OF HER HOME TUESDAY Barbara Allwein, 2 1/2 Years Old, Crushed To Death DRIVER CLEARED Tot Darted Underneath Rear Wheel Of Coal Truck Extremely pretty Barbara Marie Allwein, two and a half year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raphael E. Allwein, of 18 Moravian Street, Hebron, lost her life on Tuesday afternoon in a motor truck accident in front of the family home about 3:45 o'clock. The circumstances attending the tragedy were pathetic in addition to the fact that the parents lost their youngest child in March this year through an attack of pneumonia. Barbara, on Tuesday afternoon, joined a group of neighborhood children in watching several house painters at work opposite her residence. About the hour stated she returned home and asked her mother for a cracker. After she received the tidbit she disappeared so suddenly that her mother, engaged in ironing and other household duties, was curious to know what occasioned the hasty exit. Upon looking out the alleyway she saw her youngest child prostrate in the street. Mrs. Allwein rushed to the street, screaming an alarm. She carried the unconscious child into the house while neighbors telephoned for medical aid from C. Ray Weber's store almost opposite the home. An ambulance arrived shortly afterward, but the intern in charge declared the child dead. Dr. W. H. Brubaker, the county coroner, shortly afterward investigated the accident and exonerated Reuben McLaughlin, 57, of 141 Mifflin Street, from blame. McLaughlin drives a coal delivery truck for City Councilman Charles W. Rettew. Two eye witnesses definitely exonerated McLaughlin from culpability. Mrs. John Lawrence who lives half a square distant, stated to the parents that the coal truck was passing the house when the child suddenly darted out of the alley at the home and ran into the rear wheel of the truck so quickly that the driver did not even see her. A few seconds previously, according to State Motor Policeman Phillip Chulick and W. J. Zoins, driver McLaughlin, had slowed down to give right of way in to Lester Dissinger, of 36 Moravian Street, to drive his car out of a side street, and going eastward looking into the vision mirror to note McLaughlin's position. Dissinger also saw the child dart from the alley and between the wheels of the coal truck. McLaughlin, it was stated, did not know of the accident until he was stopped by Dissinger nearly a square distant, and informed of the circumstances. After returning to the Allwein home to see that the child was cared for, he hurried back to his headquarters, and Mr. Rettew personally called upon the grief-stricken mother and offered help and consolation. Mr. McLaughlin is the man who received publicity some time ago as the father of four soldiers now in the U. S. service. Mr. Allwein who is employed as a tool grinder at the Armstrong Cork Company plant at Lancaster, was notified by telephone, and a fellow employee hurried him home by automobile. His wife, the mother of the victim of the tragedy, is a daughter of former County Detective and Mrs. George H. Carpenter, who have been residing in Philadelphia for some years. Mr. Allwein is a son of Mrs. Mary Allwein, of Independent Boro. They have four surviving daughters--Romain, Patricia and Marion, and a son, Donald. Barbara was enrolled at St. Mary's Catholic Church. She was 2 years - 10 months - 6 days Lebanon Daily News Friday Evening August 14, 1942 FINAL RITES HELD FOR BARBARA ALLWEIN Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. for Barbara M. Allwein, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raphael E. Allwein, 18 Moravian Street, from the Thompson Funeral Home. The Very Rev. John J. Lawley, pastor of St. Mary's Church officiated. Barbara M. Allwein was killed at 4:15 p.m., Tuesday when she ran into a coal truck. interment in the Holy Cross cemetery followed the service. The following served as pallbearers: George Carpenter, Theodore Allwein, Andrew Allwein and Moses Arnold. P. H. Thompson's Sons were in charge of the funeral arrangements. Cousin Nancy