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Show BOS CRASH KILLS FIVE PASSENGERS 27 Injured When New York Bus Turns Over In a Ditch GOSHEN, Intl., Aug. 31 (U.R) Five passengers were killed and at least 27 others injured today when a Chicago-New York bus overturned in a ditch north of here. The bus, a Greyhound lines vehicle, carried 36 passengers and a driver when it left Chicago at 6:10 a. m., for New York, via Toledo and Cleveland, O. Rescue crews searched the wreckage for possible additional fatalities. The known dead were: Allisi.n Bishoprie, 55, Cinciniuiti. O., believed to have been driver of a car which collided with the bus. John Htinsohn, 50, Buffalo, N. Y. Mrs. James Kelleher, Albany, N. Y. Raymond Buskin, St. Louis. Joseph Szos7., Cleveland, O., was reported dead in the confusion following the crash but was found later in the city hospital here. Alice Carpentier, daughter of one of the men -killed, was reported report-ed dead when she was mistaken for another girl taken unconscious uncons-cious to the Elkhart hospital. She was found injured later. Most serious of the in lured were Mrs. Andrew Statelia, 33, Omaha, Neb., and her daughter, Anna 7. Survivors' said the accident occurred when a sedan ran through a stop sign, sideswiping the bus. The bus rolled over and came to rest on its top in a ditch. Firemen tore open sides of the bus to liberate the victims. It did not catch fire. . . . WICHITA, Kan., Aug. 31 (U.R) A Santa Fe trails bus turned over and burned near here today. to-day. Twenty-four passengers and the driver were burned and cut. The big interstate bus was damaged badly, and W.. O. Sanders, Sand-ers, the driver, was burned on the hands and arms when he broke windows and dragged men and women to safety. f. |