TRUCK HITS TRAILER
EIGHT DEAD; 15 HURT
(Rec. 9.30) NEW YORK, Nov. 11.
A truck carrying cotton pickers collided with a heavy tractor trailer near Gila Bend, Arizona, killing eight men and injuring 15 others to-day, Twenty-thee pickers were riding in the truck, the police said. When the driver attempted to pass a slow moving trailer the truck swerved on the rainsoaked highway and smashed into the trailer’s side. The truck overturned four times, hurling the dead and injured over 200 yards,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 28, 12 November 1949, Page 5
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