Train Kills McKenna Man
Newspaper Clipping
August 23, 1960

MCKENNA, (Special) - Edwin E. Ellingson, 68, a retired electrician of the
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, was killed instantly just before
8:30 this morning when the car he was driving was struck by a south bound
Northern Pacific freight train.

Ellingson's body was pinned in his car by the force of the oncoming train in the
crash at the Purcell Road crossing, a mile north of here. He was alone in the car.

According to investigating officers, the Longview-bound train had left Tacoma
shortly before the accident, and was engineered by a Tacoman, B.E. Miller, 59,
of 641 So. Fife St.

The Ellingsons have lived for the past year on a 12½ acre farm at
Rt 1, Box 35, Roy, where they moved from Lakebay. Previously they had lived
in Port Orchard.

Besides his wife, Ellingson leaves a daughter in Bothell, a son in Kelso and
another son in Montana.


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