TERRIBLE SMASH
TWENTY-SIX STUDENTS KILLED.
TWELVE OTHERS SERIOUSLY HURT. ’BITS STRUCK BY A TRAIN. (United Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 1.30 p.m.) SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 1. Twenty-six students, aged from 12 to 16, were killed, and at least 32' seriously injured, when a High School ’bus was struck by a fast goods train during a snowstorm. A number of those injured arc 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 in the form of a narrow horseshoe.
After the collision the train continued for a quarter of a mile, strewing the track with dismembered bodies, boxes and the wreckage of the ’bus.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 45, 2 December 1938, Page 5
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