Flaming Bus-Auto Crash Near Claude, TX; The Amarillo Glove, Thursday, May 21, 1942
"Three persons died and 10 were hurt in a car-bus crash near Claude this morning. A stolen car plowed into the 29-passenger bus and both machines burst into flames.
....."Mrs. Clyde Holtzclaw of Amarillo was critically injured. She was severely burned and suffered leg fractures and cuts. Mrs. Holtzclaw and Miss Holbert were enroute home from a credit convention in Galveston."
......"Mrs Holtzclaw was saved by the heroism of James Johnson of Groom, who was enroute home from Camp Shelby, Miss. where he is stationed with the 85th Signal Company.
......."Johnson noticed Mrs. Holtzclaw on the floor. He and another passenger pulled her from the flames and lifted her through a window. By that time the front of the bus was in flames. Johnson said he knew there was another woman and man in the front of the bus, but that they were enveloped in flames.
“I saw the driver dim his lights a time or two,” Johnson said. “I thought nothing of this. I glanced out the window. There was a flash; it burned my face. For a moment the whole of the inside of the bus seemed to be in flames; then fire broke out in the front of the bus. When the car hit the bus the car and the front of the bus seemed to explode like a shell. Everyone was thrown from the seats. The soldiers were calm. They helped the others get out.”
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Bettie Bee (Haile) Holtzclaw was the daughter of William Burder Haile and Minnie Virginia Fisher. She was born on a ranch in Hutchinson Co., TX.
Interment: April 2, 1951
"Three persons died and 10 were hurt in a car-bus crash near Claude this morning. A stolen car plowed into the 29-passenger bus and both machines burst into flames.
....."Mrs. Clyde Holtzclaw of Amarillo was critically injured. She was severely burned and suffered leg fractures and cuts. Mrs. Holtzclaw and Miss Holbert were enroute home from a credit convention in Galveston."
......"Mrs Holtzclaw was saved by the heroism of James Johnson of Groom, who was enroute home from Camp Shelby, Miss. where he is stationed with the 85th Signal Company.
......."Johnson noticed Mrs. Holtzclaw on the floor. He and another passenger pulled her from the flames and lifted her through a window. By that time the front of the bus was in flames. Johnson said he knew there was another woman and man in the front of the bus, but that they were enveloped in flames.
“I saw the driver dim his lights a time or two,” Johnson said. “I thought nothing of this. I glanced out the window. There was a flash; it burned my face. For a moment the whole of the inside of the bus seemed to be in flames; then fire broke out in the front of the bus. When the car hit the bus the car and the front of the bus seemed to explode like a shell. Everyone was thrown from the seats. The soldiers were calm. They helped the others get out.”
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Bettie Bee (Haile) Holtzclaw was the daughter of William Burder Haile and Minnie Virginia Fisher. She was born on a ranch in Hutchinson Co., TX.
Interment: April 2, 1951
Flaming Bus-Auto Crash Near Claude, TX; The Amarillo Glove, Thursday, May 21, 1942
"Three persons died and 10 were hurt in a car-bus crash near Claude this morning. A stolen car plowed into the 29-passenger bus and both machines burst into flames.
....."Mrs. Clyde Holtzclaw of Amarillo was critically injured. She was severely burned and suffered leg fractures and cuts. Mrs. Holtzclaw and Miss Holbert were enroute home from a credit convention in Galveston."
......"Mrs Holtzclaw was saved by the heroism of James Johnson of Groom, who was enroute home from Camp Shelby, Miss. where he is stationed with the 85th Signal Company.
......."Johnson noticed Mrs. Holtzclaw on the floor. He and another passenger pulled her from the flames and lifted her through a window. By that time the front of the bus was in flames. Johnson said he knew there was another woman and man in the front of the bus, but that they were enveloped in flames.
“I saw the driver dim his lights a time or two,” Johnson said. “I thought nothing of this. I glanced out the window. There was a flash; it burned my face. For a moment the whole of the inside of the bus seemed to be in flames; then fire broke out in the front of the bus. When the car hit the bus the car and the front of the bus seemed to explode like a shell. Everyone was thrown from the seats. The soldiers were calm. They helped the others get out.”
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Bettie Bee (Haile) Holtzclaw was the daughter of William Burder Haile and Minnie Virginia Fisher. She was born on a ranch in Hutchinson Co., TX.
Interment: April 2, 1951
"Three persons died and 10 were hurt in a car-bus crash near Claude this morning. A stolen car plowed into the 29-passenger bus and both machines burst into flames.
....."Mrs. Clyde Holtzclaw of Amarillo was critically injured. She was severely burned and suffered leg fractures and cuts. Mrs. Holtzclaw and Miss Holbert were enroute home from a credit convention in Galveston."
......"Mrs Holtzclaw was saved by the heroism of James Johnson of Groom, who was enroute home from Camp Shelby, Miss. where he is stationed with the 85th Signal Company.
......."Johnson noticed Mrs. Holtzclaw on the floor. He and another passenger pulled her from the flames and lifted her through a window. By that time the front of the bus was in flames. Johnson said he knew there was another woman and man in the front of the bus, but that they were enveloped in flames.
“I saw the driver dim his lights a time or two,” Johnson said. “I thought nothing of this. I glanced out the window. There was a flash; it burned my face. For a moment the whole of the inside of the bus seemed to be in flames; then fire broke out in the front of the bus. When the car hit the bus the car and the front of the bus seemed to explode like a shell. Everyone was thrown from the seats. The soldiers were calm. They helped the others get out.”
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Bettie Bee (Haile) Holtzclaw was the daughter of William Burder Haile and Minnie Virginia Fisher. She was born on a ranch in Hutchinson Co., TX.
Interment: April 2, 1951
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