NINE CHILDREN KILLED
SCHOOL OMNIBUS IN FOG
STBUCK BY TIIAIN
United Press Association—By Electric Tellemph—Cnnsright. (Received December 15, I p.m.) NEW YORK, December 14. At Crescent City, Florida, nine children were killed and about thirty; others injured when a goods train, going at a'good speed, struck a crowded school omnibus in a heavy fog at a level crossing' today. Seven children, tliree belonging to a single family, were killed outright, and two others died later. Several of the more seriously injured are not expected to survive. The parents, mostly citrus farmers, Became hysterical at the scene of the tragedy. The dead were so disfigured that identification was possible only through clothing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 144, 15 December 1933, Page 9
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