Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1937, Page 4

A4 20 DIEASBUSHITS BRIDGE, EXPLODES Only 3 Survive Crash Involv- ing Professional Roller Skating Troupe. BY the Associated Press. SALEM, Ill, March 25.—Three men remained alive today, survivors of one of the Natlon's worst motor bus acci- dents, which claimed the lives of 20 members of a professional roller- skating troupe. With two others, they were hurled through open windows by explosions following the crash of the privately owned vehicle into a bridge abutment near here yesterday. Their clothing aflame, they stood by helplessly as 18 others burned to death in the inferno of blazing wreckage. At the Salem Community Hospital, two of the survivors—Mrs. Emily ‘Thomas, Chicago, wife of the driver, and Ted Mullen, Portland, Oreg., an- nouncer—died early today. i Three Taken to St. Louis. John L. “Schoolboy” Creekmore, Miami, Fla.; Dick Thomas, Chicago, the driver, and Don Flanery, Kansas City, Mo., were transferred to a St. Louis hospital today. Creekmore’s candition was critical. 8ix bodies, one that of a 4-year-old * at Salem, Ill. injured. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, ‘Bus Wréckage in Which 18 Persons Perished N In this wreckage—that of a private bus which crashed into a bridge abutment and caught fire—18 persons died late yesterday Most of them were members of a roller skating derby troup en route from St. Louis to Cincinnati, expired early today in a hospital., Insert: Richard Thomas of Chicago, driver of the bus. He was thrown through windshield and Two more —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. child, had been tentatively identified 1937. BRITISH AIRLINER FALLS IN FRANCE Company Denies Report Three Killed in Crash on Mountain. By the Associated Press, LYON, France, March 24.—A British Imperial Airways flying boat was re- ported today to have fallen into deep snow on 8id Beaujolais Mountain, near the town of Ouroux, Rhone Depart- ment. Reports differed on the casualties. Advices from near the scene of the crash said three persons were believed killed and two injured when the plane, bound for Alexandria on its maiden trip from Southampton, fell from a height of 2,000 feet. Imperial Airways, however, said in Paris that it was informed none was dead, but that several of the crew of five and one passenger were hurt. The plane, local advices said, was discovered by a parish priest. (In London it was stated the plane’s one passenger was a Miss Betty Coates. The craft, Capricornus, left S8outhamp- ton at 11:30 a.m. for Alexandria.) Weather (Oontinued From First Page.) freezing temperatures plagued a wide expanse of the midcontinent. A 22-inch snowfall deluged Brook- ings, Watertown, Sisseton and the Black Hills territory of South Dakota. Mitchell, Huron, Pierre and Aberdeen were cut off when a 50-mile-an-hour wind and snow snapped wires. The Aberdeen American News re- ceived Associated Press news reports by short-wave radio. Schools were closed in a score of communities. Drifts in Minnesota ranged up to 10 feet. 8now plow crews rescued 20 bus passengers marooned near Faribault. The storm dipped into Wisconsin, Nebraska and Illinois. Highway traf- fic in Western Nebraska was at a standstill. Chicago got & mixture ot bad weather, including rain, sleet and snow. Tornados swept parts of Alabama and Kentucky. Two were dead at Ozark, Ala, and at least 30 persons were injured in a twister at Win- chester, Ky. A dust blizzard descended on Okla- homa, Kansas, Missouri and the Texas Panhandle, while a combination of dust, snow and rain produced ‘“red snow” at Ames, Jowa. The “duster” cut visibility to less than 100 feet at | Guymon, Okla. Schools were closed at Woodward and Boise City, Okla. Forecasters reported rainfall at Los Angeles for the season totaled 21.86 inches, highest since 1914. Rangers rescued 14 scouts stranded in a truck by mud and snow. - Glass Auto Displayed. A glass automobile revealing every detail of the construction was-shown | at this year's Berlin motor show. Jewish Home Plans Celebration. FLYER WILL MARRY Capt. Bellande to Wed Molly La- mont, Screen Actress. LOS ANGELES, March 35 (#).— Capt. Edward A. Beillande, transport pilot, and Molly Lamont, screen act- ress, announced yesterday they would be married next Tuesday, Bellande five years ago was pre- sented the airmail medal of nonor by President Roosevelt for saving the lives of passengers by successfully landing & burning plane at Bakers Field. Miss Lamont has played in “Jungle Princess,” “A Woman Rebels” and “Mary of Scotland.” She gave her name as Marjorie Edith Lamont, 25. Bellande said he was 38 years old. SPRING-TIME Always Repairing-Time / Check up now on the harm Winter weather has done; make repairs at present low price levels and save money. Free delivery at all times for ” one board or a truckload. Just call Barker! N NN Former residents of the Jewish Foster Home, 3213 Q street, will at- | tend the celebration of the Seder at | the home tomorrow night. today. The re i ShRy oda crann ey ment to relief authorities when she | ablaze and ran almost a block while .. THE STORE FOR MEN #0 badly burned that intimate friends and fellow workers found it impossible % identify them, Richard S. Kaplan, Gary, Ind, general counsel for the ‘Transcontinental Roller Derby Asso- MRS. NIKAS DENIED NEW TRIAL IN RELIEF DISPUTE Mrs. Anastasia Nikas, who was con- elation, Inc., said. The party was en route from st, | Victed last week of 10 cases of false Louis to Cincinnati when the ngedy; pretenses involving $147 in funds se- occurred on U. S. Highway No. 50, {cured from the public assistance %‘\‘;‘;:g ;:l‘;f; ;::"no: ;‘:fl“f"}-‘ T_*E | division, was denied a new trial yes- e when its | right front tire blew out. The heavy | 16748y by Judge Walter J. Casey. machine was hurled on its side across | The court agreed to defer sentence t\;e hir;hv'ay and burst into flames | until March 31, and the case will be when the gasoline tank exploded. | o Flames leaped 40 feet in the air, ‘[ investigated by the probation omc'e, turning the bus into a funeral pyre| The defendant was arrested when for its trapped victims. her husband notified authorities that “Survivors said the bus appeared to ‘ his wife had a bank account. He explode and then there was fire all | admitted on the stand that he took over and all were caught in it” |this action after his release from stated Dr. H. L. Logan of the Salem J jail, where he served a term for non- Hospital staff. | support. State’s Attorney Ward Holt said| Through an interpreter Mrs. Nikas ftoday he had “conducted a partial in- | told the court that the money in the vestigation” of the accident “which |bank was a dowry for her daughter, clearly indicated its cause to be the | established by Mrs. Nikas’' uncle in blowout of the right front tire.” He |1922 and added to from time to time said there was little to be gained by | by the uncle. Rather than touch examination of the wreckage—a small | this money, she said, the family had ugly pile of bent metal. submitted to eviction from their Coroner S. B. Carrigan of Marion | rooms upon three occasions and had County said an inquest will not be‘suflered other privations.. held for several days. “We hope by The Government contended that that time some of the injured may be ‘ since the money was in her own able to testify,” he added. name she had made a false stat failed to mention a bank account when she applied for relief. 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