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1942 Train Wreck
Railroad Park, Crystal Springs,
MS,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
31° 59' 16.5516",
-90° 21' 29.4156"
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Mississippi State
Historical Marker |
Actual marker text not yet available.
Last updated: 6/17/2009 10:15:00
| StoppingPoints.com Editorial on 1942 Train Wreck: | | August 5, 1942 bus-train collision that killed 15 people. Witnesses were quoted as saying that the driver of the bus had been to the bus station in town at Thaxton's Drug Store and was headed W. on Marion Ave. back to Hwy 51 when the crash happened. The bus driver stopped the bus at the intersection, waited for a freight train to pass, and then pulled onto the crossing. At that time, an unnoticed southbound special troop train struck the rear of the bus. The engines at the rear of the bus were torn out, the top ripped off, and the 52 passengers strewn along the ditch beside the railroad tracks for a number of yards below the crossing. The bus was turned over several times and came to rest upside down with the front of it facing back toward the tracks. The bus was carrying 26 Air Force cadets and another 26 civilians. Casualties included a few individuals who had been standing nearby the tracks waiting to cross after the train passed. |
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1942 Train Wreck Historical Marker Location Map, Crystal Springs, Mississippi
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