Show Bridge Crash Kills 7 On S 5 s. s F Bus Bv OOn OAKLAND AKLAND C Cal 1 Oct 29 UP Seven persons were killed and 22 others injured Sunday when a Greyhound bus struck a dislodged dislodged dis- dis lodged piece of oC concrete plowed through a guard railing and plunged 50 feet off the San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco Bay Bridge Witnesses said the bus was traveling between 50 and 60 mph I when it hit the chunk of concrete concrete concrete con con- I crete which had been knocked knocket loose only three minutes before in an nn automobile accident The bus driver Vane Edward Edwarc Elshire 37 Sacramento CaL im im- im- im mediately lost control of the speeding vehicle and it roared ahead swaying and skidding as ashe ashe ashe he fo fought o ight to regain control Smashes Railing Hailing The fhe bus smashed through the heavy guard railing rolled in a alazy alazy alazy lazy turn half-turn in the air and landed on its roof on a concrete railroad ramp The impact ruptured a gasoline tank and fuel trickled out onto the concrete Cut the motor Cut the motor a woman screamed A crowd of 1000 persons gathered gathered gathered gath gath- ered as police and firemen worked to remove the dead and injured Eleven ambulances rushed to the scene and removed the injured injured injured in in- to four cast bay hospitals Priest Gives Rites Hites During the rescue work a Catholic priest intoned the last the dead and sacraments over critically injured Two heavy trucks were brought in and worked with jacks and a crane to lift the wreckage in order that victims could be re re- moved Grant Harshbarger 14 Reno Nev was a passenger aboard the thebus bus The liThe whole thing was just rocking then the bus went up in the air and over O backwards he lie said The crash occurred only 30 minutes short of the bus' bus destination destination destination destina destina- tion at San Francisco The trip I started at t Salt Lake City The dead were identified as the driver Vernon II Sommers 21 Nashville Tenn John A A. A Magnuson Magnu- Magnu son 67 Vallejo Cal Mrs Agnes Bailey Daile 56 San Jose Cal Ca Mrs 1 Margaret 1 L L. Young 37 Silver City Nev Mrs Airs Agnes Mary Iary Main about 60 Bishop Ca Cal and Mrs E. E M. M Greenastel about 60 GO San Francisco 1 |