YOUNG BOY CAUSES THREE DEATHS
(Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK. August 27. A 10-year-old boy admitted at Bloomfield, Indiana, to-day that he caused a train accident that killed three railwaymen. “I was just playing and didn’t mean to hurt anybody,” he said. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said the boy placed a 10-inch steel bolt on a railway line switch in the Illinois central railway yards on Saturday. The bolt diverted a goods train from the main track on to a siding where it crashed into a truck. The train driver, George Dean, aged 60, was scalded to death when the engine and 19 trucks overturned. The fireman, Wyatt Reynold, aged 43, and the brakeman. Howards Sparks, aged 24, died later of burns.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26512, 29 August 1951, Page 7
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