BURNED TO DEATH
SIX PASSENGERS IN A MOTOR BUS. United Press Assn —By Electrio Telegraph—Copy right. VANCOUVER, August 20. ’ Minneapolis reports state that _ six were burned to- death when a hignipoed bus. bound for Chicago, with ten passengerv plunged into ditch and took fire. The big motor-car was turning a corner 1 when it collided with a truck, and fed by the 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, saved two of the passengers, pulling them through a; window, though he himself had a broken aim. Several of the victims were knocked unconscious by the collision because 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 the chained remains wore removed.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10921, 23 August 1928, Page 2
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