The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-23
LAY Sc RAIL
CRASH DEATHS
TO BILLIARDS.
Series of Wrecks, Crossing
Accidents in ~ Hours
Cause Many Injuries.
PROBE BUS DISASTER
Passenger ConfeSSeS Part
in $4,000 Robbery
and Dies.
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BY United Press


By United Press
Driving snow storms in various
parts of the United tSates were
partly responsible for a series of
railroad accidents which in the past
twenty-four hours have taken toll
of at least thirty-six lives and
caused many injuries.
The most serious was at Bellevue,
o., where an Interstate bus bound
for Pittsburgh was struck by swift
interurban car.
Although cause of the accident
has not been officially recided, driv-
ing snow is believed to have blinded
operators of the train and the bus.
Nineteen persons have died as re-
suit of the accident. -Four official
Investigations are under way.
At Torrington, Conn, this morn
ing two-car commuter train was
derailed on the New York, New
sons were killed and five injured,
Haven & Hartford line. Three per-
one perhaps fatally. Although
there was some snow on the track,
railroad officials did not believe the
accident was caused by the snow.
Many are Killed
At Depue, Ill, near Peoria, three
men were killed today when their
motor car was struck by a Rock
Island train.
A western Pacific passenger train
collided with a freight train on a
siding near Elko, New. Meager re-
ports said one member of the pas
senger trains crew was injured
seriously and one passenger injured
slightly.
Three young people, returning
from marathon dance, were killed
early today when their motor car
was struck by a Big -Four passenger
train near Dayton, o. A fourth
member of the party was so seri-
ously injured she probably will die.
Two brothers, Charles, is, and
William Crawford, 26, were killed
late Tuesday at Chrisrnan, Ill,
when their automobile was hit
by the B. and O. capitol limited.
Both lived in wellington, Ill.
Two Die In Indiana
Another Big Four passenger train
struck the automobile of Frank M.
Davidson near Farmland, Ind, to-
day, killing Davidson and his wife.
The couple was speeding to the
bedside of Mrs. DavidSon's mother,
who is seriously i'll.
The Floridan, crack Chicago to
Florida train o fthe Illinois Central
lines, collided with freight train
at Mounds, Ill. Two trainmen were
killed.
Teddy BrawsE1i, one of the victims
OF the tragic bus accident that wiped
out nineteen lives near Bellevue, o.,
Tuesday, admitted to G. E. North,
chief of police, shortly before he
died today that he was one of three
men who robbed a Detroit bank of
$4,000.
The dying man would not reveal
the date of the robbery or the bank
involved. He said that his two COM
panions were shot trying to escape.
List Of Believer Dead
Obrawski of Brooklyn and Rich
ard Freeman, who succunbed to
their injuries today, brought the
Bellevue death toll to nineteen.
Other identified dead are:
D. @. Coughanour, Cleveland.
William j. Cook, Cleveland.
Mrs. William ]. Cook, Cleveland.
Mrs. A. Robinson, Cleveland.
j. S. Davenport, Negro, Cleveland.
Louis Flynn, Steubenville, o.
Elmer Almond, Youngstown, o.
Bella TheiSz, Detroit.
r. Rawnay, Chicago.
Peter Kingsley, Wakeman, o.
Harry Glickman, Detroit.
Mrs. j. H. Harmon, Akron, o.
Mrs. Susan Deister.
The huge Greyhound bus, bound
from Detroit to Pittsburg, carried
thirty passengers as it left Toledo
Ed Butler, Cleveland, driver of the
bus, had piloted the big machine
safely through snow, sleet and a
driving blizzard, to spot near here.
BY constantly wiping the wind
shield he had been able to see
ahead.
Looked Both Ways
Approaching triangular crossing
where two roads and the inter1Tban
line intersect, Butler stopped his
bus, passengers said.
81 stopped at the crossing, got out
to wipe of the windshield, which
was caked with snow and ice, looked
both ways up and down the track,
and saw nothing" Butler said from
his hospital bed.
Getting back into the bus
started across the tracks and the
next thing / knew we were hit
broadside and everything was
smashed"