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Show 8 Die, 11 Hurt In Collision GILA BEND, ArUt, Nor. 11 ! (IN8) Nine persons wers killed snd 11 others seriously injured early Friday when ths truck In whlfh Ih.y were rtrtlny rrm,ht into a semitrailer IT miles west of Gila Bend. , Six were killed Instantly. The other three died in Maricopa County hospital in Phoenix Police said ths truck which waa struck belonged to J. H. Roes of Houston, Tex. It waa loaded with 25 ton of airplane motor parts. Ths dead and Injure were cotton cot-ton picker so route from Los Angeles to Tucson, Aria. Ths truck in which they were riding apparently slid and crashed into the rear of another truck. Police reported lt left the road and overturned several time. Driver of the overturned truck, Charles Davis, 39, of Los Angelea, was reported in critical condition. Most of the Injured were taken to ths county hospital in Buckeye. Neither the driver nor the truck which wss struck was reported damaged. ; Ponce searched ths wreckage for more possible casualtiee, after removing re-moving the dead and injured, '. v |