Evening star., 1933-12-14
Severity of Injuries Expected
to Increase Death List.
Widowed Mother Loses q
in Florida Mishap.
TRAIN GREW DECLARES
DRIVER IGNORED SIGNAL
Locomotive Drives Broadside Into
Fully-Loaded Vehicle-Eye.wit-
nesses Describe Horror of Acct
dent-Seven Ambulances Garry
Hangled Victims to Hospitals.
By the Associated Press.

sy the Associated Press
CRESCENT CITY, Fla, December IA.
Six elementary school children we're
killed, another was reported to have
died en- route to hospital, and at least
IL others were injured many critically,
when a freight train crashed into a
school bus six miles south of here
this morning
The dead:
William Smith. IL; Evelyn Smith, 9,
and Frederick Smith, children of Mrs
Bennie Smith, widow. Merle Smith
is, member of the same family. was
reported to have died while en- route
to hospital.
Hazel MeGrady, 13, and Eddie Nc
Grady, 10, children of Drew McGrady
Nellie McGrady. of the same family
was reported seriously injured.
Elsie Bertha Gorton Is.
Bus Driver Injured.
D. r. Niles, an elderly man who drove
The bus, was injured, but a physician
said his condition was not critical, al
though serious.
There was said to be probability
others of the injured would die.
Most of the injured we're taken to
Palatka.
The tragedy occurred at Silver Pond
Grove crossing, six miles south of here,
just after picking up the last of the
children on its route.
Seven ambulances from Orlando,
Deland,g Palatka and Crescent City,
rushed to the scene. hurriedly loaded
and rushed away to hospitals.
The injured taken to the Palatka
Hospital were:
Joseph King, IL, numerous cuts, full
extent injuries undetermined.
Violet Hogg, 13, head wounds.
Thomas Freeman. IL, unconscious
and expected to die.
Nellie McGrady, scalp wounds and
bruises.
Phillis Owen, 13, internal injuries.
william Hogg, II, possible broken
back
=. Louise Hardy, fractured knee.
Helena Norton. Is. badly bruised.
Willard Owen. II. leg injuries. pos
sibly amputat'on. condition critical.
Henrietta King. 16. internal injuries,
possible conclusion of brain, uncon-
scious.
An unidentified boy believed to be
Harry Smith, condition critical.
Parents Rush to Scene.
None of the dead or injured vas
Immediately identified as parents and
others combed the wreckage in frantic
efforts to find their little ones or aid
in rescue work.
There was widest confusion with
cries of parents mingled with screams
of the injured children. Bodies ana
parts of bodies were strewn along the
railroad right-of-way for hundred
Three ambulances loaded with the
nangled injured reached Palatka,
where DR.. E. M. zeagler, owner OF one
of the hospitals, described their injuries
as the most horrible he had ever seen.
DR.. Zeagler indicated the death nst
probably would be much higher tnan
the Original uSulc aI oeAi~A Aoof-s
the authorities and attaches were TOO
busy to give information Names OF
the injured were of minor importance
as physicians worked to save those
badly in need of attention.
Louis Leach, automobile agency owner
at Crescent City, one of the t1rst 70
reach the scene. described II Is tne
most horrible imaginable
There could be seen at least SIX
bodies of the dead" he said. Hers
was a hand, there foot or head
or other part of some badly mangieo
child body"
Bus Capacity 40 to so.
The bus had a capacity of 40 or so
and all the occupants were either killed
outright or injured, most of them Sc
yerely as the train crashed broadside
into it, splintering it.
Engineer r. A. Howell and Conductor
w. j. Morrison reported to their head
quarters that the train approached the
crossing with the whistle wide open
and bell ringing in an effort to at
tract the attention of the bus driver,
who was described at Atlantic Coast
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