Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1949 — Page 2
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12 nisred as Vehicle Hits Abutment ; Cath Victims | By WILFRED LETTRELL as Told to the United Press © _(Continued From Page One): ~ Pending Identification BLOOMINGTON; Aug. 10—I was riding the bus driver said, “It swerved and I tried to.straighten it up.| Bloomington | home to Evansville from Indianapolis. The bus was nearly : "The big bus smashed into the forth end of the bridge, (""" Still other limbs had, Just before the crash, 1 saw What was going to hap
Six bodies were first removed, But I thought the driver would cut back into the traffic
Feo tinted about, n a LNG rem rtdded
. a eo Bee ANI Kwa tou ete-to-do-amything~ flew foot before overturning onto its left side on the at side of| | wae and the abtn a hid; | | through the air’and went out through the windshield. the road. | Another body of a child was re-|
{peared tobe about 8B or 9 years
engers, their bodies wreathed in fire, tried to fight their|,, | went out the windshield with me. : way out of windows of the upturned side. he bodies were placed on I landed on the concrete highway on on of some
An eyewitness description of the tragic after-events \itretuhars covessd by off clo uy glass from the windshield. T was cut and bruised from
came from Mr. and Mrs. Everett Miles, living on a farm| Belongings of the victims that, skimming along the road on top of that glass.
about 100 yards from the scene of the crash. | could be recovered were placed be- By the time I got feet, the b fr “We heard the crash,” Mrs. Dorothy Miles related. [sii® the bodies so as to facilitate; Y the time 1 got on ny eet, the Us Wa 3 mass 0 “Everett and 1 looked out and saw three men come ouf of. On the melted top jof the bus fire. I saw one man with his clothes on fire. He threw
“the end window. t lay a Schick razor, its yellow himself down on the road and rolled over a couple of
by. ‘firk. “The bus was burning and there was a streak of flames!) pair Da | times. and put the fire out. I don't think he was hurt
down the highway in back of it, clear back to the north end to the Jast thread were beside Hib py hi : Clothing Found e » Sf the bridge. | Clothing found included a half. People were screaming and jumping out the back “By that time one of the men got to the barnyard burned yellow T-shirt, & ladies’| and heisked us to call for help. | white blouse with the laundry Window. I don't think anyone got out through the wind-
“Everett ran to the scene to help. I called the sheriff, ‘eras * FPAUER as 3. and Othe shield but me and Shute and the bus driver. 1 think one
“then the hospital and Day Funeral Home to send out ambu- ably were too burned to help in passenger climbed out of a side window, -
By 7 a.-m. a large crowd of
" White-Hot Skeleton of Steel |aurioaity Seekers had. fosked Xo! make it, -1 ran to a farmhouse nearby and had them call u 8 With the rescue vehicles came a fire_pumper with 500, "00 appeared to b be relatives, an ambulance. Then ] went back and tried to do what I
gallons of water. The flames were extinguished but the sr the viertms. : ; : . : whitoot skeleton of steel kept: wether Ftp I All wete © oing ordered bask to could for the people that were hurt worse than I was.
‘Huge volleys of flame shot forth and screaming pas-moved later. Both children ap:| Luke Shute of Bloomington was sitting by me and he’, » k
sultry southerly winds.
« "I never saw anything ike ‘this before."
of 70 for tonight.
"TF Fields FW For B-36 Listed
WASHINGTON, ‘Aug. 10 (UP) .pelled, it was learned, by develop-| ~The Air Force has listed 57, ‘ment of a new landing gear. fields in North America trom| | which its controversial B-36 could, need for extra long runways, reTearry ‘atomic bombs, it was dis- portedly played a big part in the’
lances.” identification. |} : I saw 1 trying to-get out. S of tl lidn't |
It once was feared the bomber tinue - buying B-36's — decisions | {was so big it would need special | that are under investigation by to only 80 by midnight.” Its. “coolbases. The fears: have-hoen-die-t je House Serviess Committee. ‘est was 73 at §a mm.
+high command's decision to con-, no
“Asphalt Plant. worker Was overcome shortly before noon today as ~thopes for relief from the torrid heat WAV over the ‘Week-and ‘waned:
George Dulin, ot 1808 Martin |dale Ave, was operating a steam i lrolier at 30th St. and Forest % Manor in near 90-degree temperature Nias be soilapaed. he was
Hopes tor cooling air from the Northwest faded as cities in the larea reported higher temperatures. - Previously, the weatherman held out a chance that slightly cooler air “from. Northwest would move Into Te |diana sometime Saturday. | But now, the Weather Bureau !sajd, there was no relief. in sight from scorching summer sun and
See Low of 70
Mostly fair skies were expected —wecompanied by = high of {93 late today ahd a ‘maximum {reading of 92 to 94 tomorrow. The weatherman forecast a low
Scattered showers late today and tomorrow afternoon were expected to do little more than lay the dust in sun-scorched Indian-
A broiling summer sun through The new gear, which eliminates {thinly veiled skies sent the Jer re-|[cury zooming to 93 by 4 Showers in 3s {parts of the ¢ity later in the day relief;
Sticky super-heated alr cooled
ke room for ambulances. [7 Tve been driving a truck for 15 years over most of ing persons trapped inside. | or 1 h ER ; i — Bloomington firemen Jamon 13 i ed J Om the. oof the country. But I never saw anything like this befcre. urphy a George am 1 “{Ind. 37. the west side of the road; “Wha ‘never: . a rescue crews io assist Jj {was kept open. Traffic was oi: t's more, F hope ¥ do again.
the injured and lay out the dead, dered to drive slow past the
said he repeatedly went back Int!
Accidents Here =: just like cobwebs,” one the Baming loioay holocaust to 18 drag oud i sald. i —Phasengors-nraugh
after they manned the pumper ol wreckage, then to speed up. No extinguish the fire, I rl ic fears were allowed to stop, . ", The driver of the bus played ol Witnerass Said the bus Jack: + s se a herole part in rescuing passen- age which ha come a funera : gers, state patrolmen said. "They! | pyre was tangled and molten. “It LL J Eyied * The Men’ s Store, Street F Joa, South Building. d
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Jast trip Mrs. Jains 3 Melton, Mt. in"¢ight separate traffi 4
“Vernon. rr Driver C Ann, In the bus. er Taner) i and 5 round Todanapas Te is fo Seon |
she had left her i “Judith fought his way back in, found the rd d today, child and tossed her into the erday An ; arms of her mother. The little] Seven-year-old David Flack, | Charred Wreckage girl suffered a broken nose, 3437 N. Illinois 8t., was in serious) (Continued From Page One) | ee a window frame as ‘the condition in General Hospital to-| sor a1) stops along the winding driver threw her out. 'day after police said he ran inlo| Road 37, one of the state's dead- | Wells W. Richardson, 18, Ev-ithe side of a car driven hy Char. | jjest, ansville, was en route home after jotte E, Griener, of 7210 N. Penn- | State police sald troopers regattending a tennis tournament at, |sylvania at yesterday in the 3300 ularly watched busses for comBRRARL ing wean all of ajPT OLX; Meridlag BL. {tianion with the S0-mile-anhour | was 8 imit in Indiana. In 1948 " t Los sudden-1- heard a le. crash.” he o gp ick autouitle coltson at 20 bus. drivers. were arrested anda. was oa Y oy zn An broke truck driver Charles Delello of | 24 warned ‘by 'patrolmen for
{ out a back window and I dived R- R. 11 and automobile passen-: "yo ot bus crash on record in it. |ger Albert Hackney of 706 E. |Indiana before ‘today happened “By that time the whole’ od pp St. to General Hospital: Igo. 17, 1947, when 13 railroad - was on fire, ts of bodies Mr possible se orkers were killed near just before out the win-| fracture AB yon a hip! Mi City When tHelF bus dow, but there wihisn't time to|injury. Wi gley of was struck by an “electric train. them. I had th dive through Muncie, pid of the the @lifomobile, Another Great lakes und
rms hd S—— drs : roman Ronnie on, 5 5s years old, crash which killed three occuwas in good condition in. Meth- | pants ‘of -& CAr near Glenns Val- : x Hospital today after Ne telly on Road 37, i | got out!from the back of a truck in the of the bus through a hole in the goo
; block N. Oxford St. yesterday. windshield directly in front of|Truck driver Wilbur Saltz, of + Robbers Miss the steering wheel. Others fled | Eastern Ave, was arrested on a through the hole kicked in the|charge of failure to have a rear window by Edgar Davis, 43, |artver's license. ; of Indianapolis. |e Willlam M. Spiegal, 58. of T48 in Pocket Mayor Thomas L. Lemon of Union St. was treated and sent 15 Bloomington hurried fo the scene home from General Hospital last : to help direct rescue work, inight after he was struck by a An Evansville produce buyer Bloomington Hospital called out truck at Meridian and South Sts who said he was robbed of $2900
{ts personnel and set up emer- He suffered cuts on his hand, knee
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which winds and curves through Police sald he uprooted six rows ’ the hills of Southern Indiana.|of corn with his motorcycle yes- S's ales "at. the "go hed ake However, the accident: happened [terday at 3750. Prospect St. after pur an 3:3 "yo on a straightaway, fairly level he collided with a car at Sherman 2 stretchy that. dips. into a. shallow Drive And Prospect St. ye do the_trdei dere) valley, "crosses the 35-foot-long| - Terry. was Arrested on a charge approached. him. “One held a bridge and then rises over a low! {of operating a vehicle while under pistol, Mr. ¢ Mayberry said, and hill ithe influence of alcohol; He was pi other took the bilifold from The driver. of the bus was & 22. treated in General HospRal. (his pocket. After removing the Yearwold Navy veteran who had TH —r | money, Mr. Mayberry stated, the beer employed with Greyhound Harry Davenport Dies “man returned the purse, and left the past six months. He resides the scéne in the ‘car: at 1112 Hoyt Ave. with his wire Al 83, Veteran Actor { iene ei of 15 months, Louise Cranmer “HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 10 (UP) THREE QUAKES IN JAPAN His wife, informed of the trag-' White-haired ¢tharacter a ctor] NAGOYA, Japan, Aug. 10 (UP) edy this morning. said the Grey- Harry Davenport, 83, who died|— Three slight earthquake, shoeks hound compihy had told her only after the longest acting career in were felt. here today. but no damthat her husband was detainéd In! American history, will be buriedage was reported. Center of the Bloomington because of an accl in Kensich .Cemetery near New quakes was placed about 20 miles dent. He had been on the Bloom-, (York, his family said today. 'north of Kyoto. ington run the past three months, — —— Sip she sald.
RT GET ‘Parents Killed in Tragedy Report Hunt Got bans
$86,000 Hotel Fee "iy i
WASHINGTON, Aug.~10 (UP) ~-Senpte Investigators reported today that ¥Five Per Center” James V. Hunt got an $86,000 fee for helping former owners buy back for $635.000 a Long Island hotel they had sold to the Nayy Hor $1,300,000, Mr. Hunt was put onto the deal 3 by Albert W. Lewitt, secretary of thien Sen. Albert W. Hawkes (R N. J.J, but under sharp questioning Mr. Lewitt steadfastly denied _ suggestions that he got a £5000 — fee of his own. The story, told by a Senate in vestigating committee official,’ disclosed that - the purchasers sent Mr. Hunt a $5000 - down payment for his services while ; he was a $50-a-day consultant to the War Assets Administration. WAA is the federal agency which, disposes of surplus government property.
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