FATAL BUS ACCIDENT
SIX PEOPLE BURNT TO DEATH Press Association-—By Telegraph—Copyright VANCOUVER, August 20. Minneapolis reports that six people were burned to death when a highspeed bus, bound for Chicago, with ten passengers, plunged into a ditch and took fire. _ Tho bus was turning a corner when it collided with a truck. Eed by fuel from the broken gasoline tank, the flames enveloped the victims. Even chemical extinguishers operated by firemen failed against the gas-fed flames. Walter Pickard, a pugilist, caved two of the passengers by pulling them through a window, though he himself had a broken arm. Several victims were knocked unconscious by the collision, and they could be seen through the flames sitting upright in their seats with their heads merely slumped over. It was two hours after the collision that their charred remains were removed. —United Service.
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Evening Star, Issue 19951, 22 August 1928, Page 5
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140FATAL BUS ACCIDENT Evening Star, Issue 19951, 22 August 1928, Page 5
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