Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-10-03 | Page 2 | Bus Collision Kills Eleven

BUS COLLISION KILLS ELEVEN LUMBERTON N. N C. C Oct 3 UP 11 p I Eleven persons were reported i killed and 18 others injured some som e seriously in a way three-way collision ri involving a Queen City 5 bus a gasoline tanker and a wagon 16 miles north of Lumberton Lumber Lumber- ton Saturday Robert Taylor a correspondent t for th the local newspaper newspaper news news- paper said the crash occurred d when the oil IiI tanker sideswiped a wagon swerved sharply a and n d crashed into a heavily loaded bade d bus Taylor who saw the crash sal said d the bodies of the 11 persons r removed removed re re- i moved from the blazing bus we were C so badly burned burne J that they we were C beyond recognition The 18 in ir injured in- in 1 w we were e r e not immediately y known The driver of ot the gasoline tanker tank tank- er was listed as Tinson Branch Branc h hof of Lumberton He was seriously y burned The bus driver who was burned burne d to death listed was as Lawrence Lawrenc e R. R Barbee of ot Greensboro R. R J. J Mitchell a negro driver drive r of the wagon was injured oni only slightly