Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-22
1ODEAD, 3 injured
AS TRAIN WRECKS
OHIO SCHOOL BUS
Nine Children and Driver Are
Victims of Grade Cross
ing Tragedy.
VEHICLE is DRIVEN
INFO ENGINES PATH
Mother Sees Two of Family Hurled
to Death by Force of
Impact.
BY the Associated Press.

| by the ASSOClaLeQ EfeSS.
CLEVELAND, January 22.-The
worst railroad crossing accident in Ohio
in year today killed nine small chill
dren and the driver of the bus in which
they were riding, at Sheldron road. near
Berea, Ohio, is miles from Cleveland.
One other child was seriously injured.
Rushing toward Chicago As miles an
hour. New York Central mail train
struck the bus squarely In the middle.
Wreckage and bodies were strewn along
the tracks for 500 feet before the train
could be stopped.
The bus driver had halted at the edge
OF the crossing and waited for a freight
train to pass. A moment later he drove
into the path of the mail train. There
was crash, a grinding Of ripping metal
and wood, and then the screams Of
dying and injured children.
The identified dead-Don Taylor,
driver; William Davidson. 10; Rita Ze-
linski, 8; Dorothy Zelinski, II; Vincent
lelinski, 6, brother and sister Of Rita
william Pastorik, 10; Vernon Davidson.
7; Evelyn Kaltenback. z: Jacob Walters,
IL. and his sister, Juanita Walters, 9.
Ethel Davidson, 10, who was injured,
has a chance to live.
Train Crew Aids Sufferers.
AS quickly as the train could be
stopped the crew and others aboard
Jumped on and rendered to the surviv-
ing children all possible aid.
Trucks and automobiles were COM
Wandered and took the injured to
Boca Hospital and the dead to two
morgues.
The crossing was considered danger
Gus because there were four tracks, but
the weather was bright and visibility
was good.
The scene Of the accident was In a
sparsely settled section, however. which.
with long, straight, level right of way.
gives the trains chance to make high
speed.
J. H. Beck, a section foreman work.
ing on the tracks 1000 feet west of
the crossing, said he saw the bus stop
Just before 1t was driven in the path
Of the rushing locomotive.
A moment later, he said, he saw
wreckage and bodies hurled into the
air.
Mother Sees Children Killed.
according to Rudolph. Urspruna. =
conductor, OF Berea, who was one Of
the hrst to arrive at the scene, there
was q freight train passing east over
the crossing as the bus approached. It
was believed Taylor waited for the
freight train to pass and then drove his
1us IN front CT the fast mail, which the
freight train probably had hidden.
MRS. Rosie Davidson Of Brook Park
village was a witness Of the accident
IN which two Of the children killed
were her own. She was about quarter
OF mile away when the crash oc-
CURED. Rushing to the crossing she
found the bodies Of her children In the
wreckage. Screaming in grief, she was
taken home in state Of COLLAPSE.
Hand, the engineer, said, st didn't
see the bus until we hit it,
Trainmaster A. II. Hancock of Elyria.
who questioned Hand when the train
later arrived at Elyria, said Hand told
him the fireman was putting In coal
just before the crash, which prevented
the fireman from seeing the bus.
Hand said the train was travelling
IS miles an hour. It consisted Of one
passenger coach and several mail and
express cars.
PathoS was added to tragedy when
mothers and fathers Of the dead and
injured children commenced to arrive,
Cries of anguish were heard as parents
found their loved ones dead or learned
they had been taken to hospitals seri-
ously injured.