Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-05-14 | Page 13 | 8 Meet Death as 2 Autos and Train Collide

B MEET DAl DEATH I AS 2 A AUTOS m A AND f ESPYVILLE Pa May 14 United Press Press Press-An An impromptu race be between between between be- be tween two automobiles which ended ended end end- ed when both machines crash crashed d into I a Pennsylvania passenger train to today today to to- day cau caused ed the he deaths eathl of p pe PL so sons ns Three of the five who were injured may die hospital physicians said today The Tho d dead ad are Clare Clara B. B Hays Jays 31 hi hane- hane nago Pa Pa farmer hi his wife Mrs Marie Marle Hayes 38 their four sons Everett 10 Melvin 8 S Garry 5 and Delbert 3 3 William Thomas 32 22 Al AlbIon Albion Albion Al- Al bion Pa brakeman and his father fattier Ward Thomas 60 also of Albion The injured Mrs William Thomas 28 Mrs I Ward Thomas 60 Donald Hayes 10 months Virginia Thomas 8 S Betty Thomas 6 The two women and tire th-e b baby by were not expected to live The race began almost two miles 1 from the railroad crossing According to Monte Thomas the only occupant of the two cars who escaped injury the Ha Hayes es car passed the Thomas car and Wt William lIam Thomas began the chase which ended ended ended end end- ed in the collision Thomas said the cars raced to together to- to gether over the last mile to the tracks Neither Keither driver apparently saw the approaching train The Hayes car struck the front of the tIle locomotive Simultaneously the I Thomas car crashed into the tIm tender Bodies of the occupants of the i machines were strewn along the way right for more than yards ards I