The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-23
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inferno. Those who had crawled out of the wreckage were unable to go back for their loved ones. Screams of the dying and walls of spectators echoed above, the roar of the flames.
 Fire apparatus from several Westchester communities fought the blaze more than an hour be- fore 1t was brought under control. Total damage to property was es- timated at more than s225,000. Driver Feared Accident Berdard Campisi, Is, one of those who leaped from the bus, said he heard the driver remark that well be lucky is we reach Ossining in this boat He said he was seated directly behind Im- peratore and observed the difficult ty he was having with the brakes. q said to myself something is going to happen and I jumped" ]" Bernard said describing the trag- edy. Just before it went over could see the faces of the people in that bus. Everyone was trying to get the doors open. I wasn't hurt bad when I landed and I ran to the railing. The screams of the women and children was terrible. knew most of the wids in that bus and I'll remember their cries until ] die. said my prayers then went down as near as l could to the fire"
 Official investigation along sev- eral lines was opened today. Au- tomobile experts were summoned to inspect the wreckago and at- tempt to ascertain from photo- graphs whether the bus was me- chanically at fault.
 List of The Dead
 Ossining, N. r., July 23-UP)- A tentative list of dead in yes terday's bus crash follows. All were of Brooklyn, N. Y:
 Miss Rose Thompson, Joseph Mcdonald, his wife, Catherine, their daughter, Bernadette, 12; Arthur Luff, Joseph Meaney, his sister, name unknown; Frank Inn peratore (driver), James Murray. his wife, Mrs. James Murray; Mrs. Abe Geller, Abe Geller, Mrs. Will liam Hayes, John McNicholas, an unidentified man, and John Reit- meyer of Brooklyn.
 The last three died in hosiptals a few hours after the crash. Bodies of the 15 in morgues were burned so badly that in some instance au- thorities were uncertain whether a pile of bones represented one or two corpses.
 Local People There
 "It was horrible, shuddered Nicholas A. Maiorano, local under taker, who, with his two daughters, saw bus, filled with happy pas sengers, go up in flames as it plunged down a 25-foot embank- ment at Ossining, N. Y., yesterday afternon. The tragedy visibly af- fected the three local people, who were directly behind the bus as it brought death to at least dozen persons.
 The Maiorano car, behind the bus, was proceeding up a grade leading to an overhead bridge of the New York Central lines when the Waterbury people saw four men leap out the window of the bus. Before they could discover what had happened, the bus had plunged over the embankment.
 The local people stopped their car, and they saw, 25 feet mellow. IHe IQHtIdl pyIC tAdt Ildd pcSH just moment before filled with laughing crowd. Terrible screams rang out from those trapped in side; other passengers, their clothes abloze, ran toward the waters of the Hudson river; still others rolled about the ground trying to extin- guish the flames in their clothing.
 MT Maiorano and his daughters were bound for Sing Sing to see a baseball game. also the destination of the bus load of passengers; twelve of them died in the flames and more than score painfully hurt or burned.