TRAIN HITS BUS
26 STUDENTS KILLED
TRAGEDY IN SNOWSTORM '
(Received December 2, 2.20 p.m.) ]
SALT LAKE CITY, December 1.
Twenty-six students between 12 and 18 years of age were killed and at least twelve were seriously injured when a high school bus was struck by a fast goods train during a snowstorm. Many of the injured are not expected to survive. Hysterical, screaming parents jammed the local hospital to which the victims were taken. There was the greatest difficulty in identification.
The bus was hit in the middle and bent into a narrow horseshoe. The train continued for a quarter of a mile, strewing the track with dismembered bodies, books, band instruments, luncheon boxes, and bus wreckage.
The dead include the driver. Railway officials said that the tfein wa3 an hour late because of the weather and travelling fast, probably in excess of 60 m.p.h. It appears that the engineer was on the right side of the driver's cab of the locomotive and that the bus came from the left. The fireman screamed to him to stop.
An entire floor of the hospital wal filled with victims of the crash and there was a special room for parent* who fainted.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 153, 2 December 1938, Page 12
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200TRAIN HITS BUS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 153, 2 December 1938, Page 12
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