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HALF ACRE CASTLE
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Six Killed When
2-Deck Bns~Kanis
Truck in Dark
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Of)—A
two-decker Greyhound bus, carry
ing 25 passengers, crashed into the
rear of a parked semi-trailer truck
early Saturday, killing six persons
and injuring 21 others.
The bus driver and six passen
gers remained in hospitals, some
reported in critical condition.
The dead were identified by
state police as four women and
two men.
Most of the passengers on the
bus, on an express run from Chi
cago to New York, were believed
asleep at the time of the crash,
about 12:40 a.m., state police said.
Harry Williams, 43, the truck
driver, said he flashed a flare as a
warning to the oncoming bus on
U,S. 20, a four-lane highway about
six miles east of Michigan City
but the driver apparently did not
see it.
Williams said he had halted his
truck, loaded with 15,0(H) pounds
of freight, to repair a broken air
line and had set out four flares.
“After repairing the air line,”
Williams said, “I went to the rear
of the truck to pick up the last
lighted pot when I saw the bus
approaching.
“I kept waving it so the driver
would see it.
“I kept thinking, ‘My God, isn’t
he going to turn! Isn’t he going to
turn!
“Then I knew the bus was going
to hit the truck and I started run
ning. I got about 20 feet from the
truck when the bus hit. I was
knocked down by the debris.”
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