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The Key West Citizen
Key West, Monroe County, Florida
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A Grand Trunk Western passenger train collided with a Detroit street railway motor bus at Caniff Avenue crossing, killing 16 people including several school pupils. The bus was cut in half, with bodies strewn along tracks for two blocks.
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DETROIT, Oct. 28.-Sixteen persons, including several school pupils, were killed this morning as a passenger train sliced through a crowded Detroit street railway's motor bus.
The bodies were strewn along the tracks for two blocks and some were mangled against the front of the locomotive as the train, a Grand Trunk Western passenger train arriving from Chicago, pulled to a stop a quarter of a mile away.
The bus, driven by William F. Clos of Detroit. had stopped at the Caniff Avenue crossing while the north-bound freight train passed. Eye-witnesses said the electric flasher signals were operating, but after the freight train passed. the bus started across the tracks into the path of the south-bound passenger train.
The front of the bus cleared the tracks. but the locomotive smashed through the vehicle at the middle doors, cutting it in half. Most of the dead passengers were in the rear end of the bus.
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Detroit
Event Date
Oct. 28.
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sixteen persons, including several school pupils, were killed; bodies strewn along tracks for two blocks; some mangled against locomotive.
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A Grand Trunk Western passenger train from Chicago sliced through a crowded Detroit street railway motor bus at Caniff Avenue crossing after the bus started across tracks following a north-bound freight train, despite operating electric flasher signals. The locomotive smashed the bus at the middle doors, cutting it in half; most dead were in the rear.