CROSSING SMASH
AT LEAST THIRTY PERSONS KILLED IN OHIO MOTOR-COACH STRIKES TRAIN. ALL ON BOARD PERISH. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CUYAHOGA FALLS (Ohio), July 31. At least 30 persons were killed when a single gasoline electric-powered coach crashed head on into a Pennsylvania railway goods train drawn by two engines at a grade crossing. The police stated that all aboard the coach perished. The coach's gasoline tank exploded, splashing flaming fuel over the wreckage. Five persons were thrown from the coach, but were burned to death by the gasoline if they were not dead already. At present 29 bodies have been recovered.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1940, Page 5
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101CROSSING SMASH Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1940, Page 5
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