Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-07-08 | Page 6 | Indians Safe as Bus Tips Over

Indians Safe As Bus Tips Over Telegram State Sarviea RICHFIELD; July 3 A party of 29 Indians Friday were nursing cute and bruises suffered Thursday Thurs-day at 3:30 p.m. when a bus in which they were riding struck a bridge abutment and overturned 14 miles south of bars near Joseph, Sevier county. "It wsa a lucky accident," related re-lated Sheriff Clarence Smith. "The Indians, their bus driver aad a relief driver could have all bean killed." he added. The bus, driven by Ivaa D. Olsea, 43, Preston, Ins , blowout a front tire aa It approached tha bridge, causing the machine to go out of control and bit tha east abutment. Force of tha Impact tore tha front wheels and axle from tha machine, and tha bus careened across the bridge and overturned. Moat seriously injured included a 3-month-old baby, a 13-year-old boy and an old man, about 70, all of whom auffered cots and bruisee. Tha rest were oaly shaken up. aaid Sheriff Smith. The Indiana, who had been working for the Franklin Sugar Co, at Preston, were being returned re-turned to their homes in northern Arizona by Mr. Olsea and his relief driver, B. H. Valentine.