LEVEL CROSSING TRAGEDY

Evening Star, Issue 23130, 2 December 1938, Page 12

LEVEL CROSSING TRAGEDY

TRAIN CRASHES INTO BUS TWENTY-SIX SCHOOL CHILDREN KILLED Press Association—B.y Telegraph—Coypright SALT LAKE CITY, December 1. (Received December 2, at 1.25 p.m.) Twenty-six students, aged 12 to 16, were killed and at least 12 were seriously injured when a bigh school bus was struck by a fast goods train during a snowstorm. A number of those injured are not expected to survive. Hysterical, screaming parents jammed the local hospital, where 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, books, band' instruments, luncheon boxes, and wreckage of the bus. . TRAIN AN HOUR LATE WASHINGTON, December 1. (Received December 2, at 2 p.m.) The dead include the driver of the bus. - (Railways, officials said the train was an hour late due to the weather, and was travelling fast, probably in excess of 60 m.ip.h. It appears that the engineer was on the right side of the driver’s cab of the locomotive and the bus came from the left. The fireman screamed to him to stop. The entire floor of the hospital is filled with crash victims, and a special room had to bo provided for parents who had fainted.