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Show . This Wreck Cost Lives of Six Students and Driver 1 i , ' ':.':. j Xy SB AFTER SCHOOL BUS PLUNGED DOWN 75-FOOT CLIFF IN WEST VIRGINIA Broken axle blamed for accident which also left mora than 71 injured , . ' TOLL RISES TO 7 IN BUSTRAGEDY WAR. W. Va, Oct. 12 "l-Four more deaths today brought to seven sev-en the toll of dead In a school bus crash near here. Three students died soon after the crowded vehicle plunged over a 75-foot cliff after losing a front wheel yesterday. More than 70 others were injured, six of them critically. Latest victims were Hubert L. Belcher, 39, driver of the bus; Ralph Earls, 17; Charles Colvard, 16, and Lucille White, 18. The bus wss bound from nearby near-by mining communities to the Big Creek high school In this southern West Virginia coal town when its front axle broke. j |