TRAIN HITS BUS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 3 December 1938, Page 9

TRAIN HITS BUS

TWENTY-SIX DEAD

FEARS FOR OTHER LIVES TWELVE HURT SERIOUSLY SALT LAKE CITY SMASH DISASTER IN SNOWSTORM (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Dec. 2, 3 p.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 1. A message from Salt Lake City states that 26 students aged from 12 to 18 years were killed and at least 12 seriously injured when a high school bus was struck by a fast goods train during a snowstorm. A number of those injured are not expected to survive. Parents jammed the local hospital whence the victims were taken, and there was the greatest difficulty in

identifying the victims. 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 the wreckage of the bus. Tlie dead include the driver. A railway official said the train was an hour behind schedule due to ■the bad weather and was travelling fast, probably in excess of 60 miles an hour. 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 the engineer. An entire floor of the hospital was filled with victims of the crash, and 'attendants had to provide attention in a special room for parents wiho fainted.