Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-10-11 | Page 1 | Train Hits School Bus, Seven Lose Lives

Ira Train OB e Hits Scho n Seven lose lives MEMPHIS Tenn Oct 11 IP Officials jp-Officials Officials sought Saturday to determine the cause of a train school bus crash that cost cost seven seven lives at Eads depot 20 miles east of here The sheriffs sheriff's office identified the dead as B B. H H. Priddy 55 v veteran teran Shelby county school bus driver and six pupils Jean Seward Seward Seward Sew- Sew ard 12 Guy Anderson Jr 13 Hagan Austin Williams Jr 7 Alma Sherrill 7 Melvin Finish Richmond 11 11 and Murray Kenneth Kenneth Kenneth Ken Ken- neth Bryan 9 9 Ten others were injured late Friday The bus carrying 18 children from school was struck broadside by an N N. C C. St St. L L. passenger train running 20 minutes late into Memphis Engineer Joe Darnell Paducah Ky said the train was traveling between 40 and 50 miles per hour and he didn't see thebus the thebus thebus bus until it was directly in front of himA him A witness said the bus bua came down the hill bill from the south hesitated just a second second though I couldn't say whether it stopped or not not and and then rolled out onto he track right in the path of the train rain One of the injured children year old Nancy Jenkins said Every child on the bus was screaming for the driver to stop