Louis Lookofsky, Paducah, Is
Killed In Bus-Train Accident
____
Mishap Occurs At
Johnston City, Ill.
____
Louis Lookofsky, widely known merchant who had been in business here since 1909 was instantly killed early Sunday when a Greyhound bus on which he was riding collided with a two-car Diesel-powered Missouri Pacific Railroad passenger train, at a crossing near Johnston City, Ill., about 10 miles north of Marion.
Mr. Lookofsky was on a business trip to Chicago.
The bus carried 54 passengers. Six persons, besides Mr. Lookofsky, died. About 50 others were injured.
The brakes on the bus apparently failed on a slight down grade and the heavy vehicle crashed into the first car of the small train. The engine overturned and caught fire.
Flames were extinguished by the engineer while his foot was caught in the wreckage. He escaped with minor injuries, it was reported.
J. R. Hart, about 45, driver of the bus died on his way to a hospital shortly after the crash. He lived in Memphis and was known in Paducah through his association with the local Greyhound office. He is survived by his widow and two children.
The front part of the bus which was Chicago bound from Memphis, via Paducah, was torn away. One woman, still unidentified Monday morning, was thrown clear of the wreckage and decapitated. Some of the passengers were standing in the aisle, according to a news report from the United Press.
Only three passengers were aboard the train and none was seriously hurt. The three crewmen also escaped with minor injuries.
The bus was reportedly moving about 40 miles an hours. Investigators are exploring the possibility the driver's foot slipped from the brake pedal on the grade, to United Press said.
Hospitals at West Frankfort, Herrin and Marion and an emergency center established by the Red Cross and Civilian Defense cared for the injured.
Mr. Lookofsky was evidently sitting near the front of the bus. Nature of his injuries were not disclosed.
Mr. Lookofsky came to New York from Russia at the age of 15. He later lived in St. Louis for three years with his parents.
He came to Paducah in 1909 and established a shoe store at Eleventh street and Broadway. Mr. Lookofsky moved his business to 206 Broadway in 1911. The concern operated under the name of the Boston Shoe Store.
In 1923, Mr. Lookofsky opened a general clothing store at 131 South 2nd street. He became widely known throughout this section.
Mr. Lookofsky was a member of Temple Israel, the Masonic organization and was a Shriner. He was 50 years old.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rose Lookofsky; two sons, Leo Lookofsky, seaman second class in the Navy, stationed in California, and Ben Lookofsky, operator of Look's Children Shop here; two daughters, Miss Dorothy Lookofsky and Mrs. Bernard Michaelson, Paducah; two brothers, Mike Lookofsky, Nashville, and Ben Lookofsky, California; three sisters, Mrs. Molly Marcus, Mrs. Sylvia Lacks and Mrs. Ida Bernstein, St. Louis, and three grandchildren, Simon J. Michaelson, Marcia and Freddie Lookofsky, Paducah.
Funeral services probably will be held Wednesday or Thursday at Roth funeral home. Burial will be in the Temple Israel cemetery.
Mr. Lookofsky's sailor son will arrive home Wednesday.
Others dead in the crash included Georgia Hawkins, Milwaukee; Eddie Lewis Marshall, Hutting, Ark.; Dorothy Jane Pate, 41, Memphis and Ed, White, 62, Johnston City.
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Johnston City, Ill., Sept. 20—(U.P.) – A Greyhound Bus Company official said today that a "complete" investigation would be made "shortly" of a bus-train collision near here yesterday in which seven persons were killed and 53 were injured.
The official expressed the belief that failure of the crowded bus' brakes to hold caused it to crash into a two-car Diesel powered Missouri Pacific passenger train at a crossing two miles from here early yesterday.
He also said that injured bus passengers told him they called to Driver J. R. Hard, 38, Memphis, as the bus rolled down a grade toward the crossing when he failed to slow the vehicle for the approaching train. The official said Hard "might have had a heart attack at the time, as passengers said they saw him slump over the wheel before the crash."
The wrecked bus, meanwhile, its front demolished, was taken to the fairgrounds at Marion where bus and railroad company officials will conduct the inquiry, the official said, adding that the driver's foot may have slipped from the brake pedal as the bus neared the crossing.
A coroner's inquest into the accident will be held today at Marion, Williamson County Coroner L. W. Gassawy said.
Paducah Sun-Democrat,
Paducah, Ky
Monday, September 20, 1943, p. 1 and 5
∼
GREYHOUND BUS
AND PASSENGER
TRAIN COLLIDE.
7 KILLED, 53 HURT
IN ILLINOIS IN
GRADE CROSSING
TRAGEDY.
Johnson City, Ill. -- (AP) -- Collision of a crowded Greyhound bus and a two-car Missouri Pacific railroad passenger train killed seven persons and injured at least 53 yesterday.
In the accident at a crossing two miles south of here the cab and one side of the bus were smashed and the engine-baggage car of the Diesel powered train was overturned.
All but five of the casualties were passengers on the bus bound from Memphis, Tenn., for Chicago. Among the slightly injured were DR. LUCIANO MILLA CISNEROS, 53, Honduran minister to Guatemala, and his daughter, SOFIA MILLA, 22. They were en route to Rochester, Minn.
Hospitals at West Frankfort, Herrin and Marion and an emergency center established by the Red Cross and civilian defense in Herrin cared for the injured.
Coroner Lon W. Gasaway of Williamson county identified the dead as:
J. R. HARD, 38, Memphis, the bus driver.
LOUIS LOOKOFSKY, Paducah, Ky.
ED WHITE, Johnson City.
DOROTHY PATE, Memphis.
EDDIE LOUIS MARSHALL, one year old Negro, Hutting, Ark.
GEORGIA HAWKINS, Negro, Milwaukee.
An Unidentified Woman who was decapitated. [sic: Mrs. Blanche Bostic, of Memphis, Tennessee]
The Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas
Monday, September 20, 1943, p. 8
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Killed In Bus-Train Accident
____
Mishap Occurs At
Johnston City, Ill.
____
Louis Lookofsky, widely known merchant who had been in business here since 1909 was instantly killed early Sunday when a Greyhound bus on which he was riding collided with a two-car Diesel-powered Missouri Pacific Railroad passenger train, at a crossing near Johnston City, Ill., about 10 miles north of Marion.
Mr. Lookofsky was on a business trip to Chicago.
The bus carried 54 passengers. Six persons, besides Mr. Lookofsky, died. About 50 others were injured.
The brakes on the bus apparently failed on a slight down grade and the heavy vehicle crashed into the first car of the small train. The engine overturned and caught fire.
Flames were extinguished by the engineer while his foot was caught in the wreckage. He escaped with minor injuries, it was reported.
J. R. Hart, about 45, driver of the bus died on his way to a hospital shortly after the crash. He lived in Memphis and was known in Paducah through his association with the local Greyhound office. He is survived by his widow and two children.
The front part of the bus which was Chicago bound from Memphis, via Paducah, was torn away. One woman, still unidentified Monday morning, was thrown clear of the wreckage and decapitated. Some of the passengers were standing in the aisle, according to a news report from the United Press.
Only three passengers were aboard the train and none was seriously hurt. The three crewmen also escaped with minor injuries.
The bus was reportedly moving about 40 miles an hours. Investigators are exploring the possibility the driver's foot slipped from the brake pedal on the grade, to United Press said.
Hospitals at West Frankfort, Herrin and Marion and an emergency center established by the Red Cross and Civilian Defense cared for the injured.
Mr. Lookofsky was evidently sitting near the front of the bus. Nature of his injuries were not disclosed.
Mr. Lookofsky came to New York from Russia at the age of 15. He later lived in St. Louis for three years with his parents.
He came to Paducah in 1909 and established a shoe store at Eleventh street and Broadway. Mr. Lookofsky moved his business to 206 Broadway in 1911. The concern operated under the name of the Boston Shoe Store.
In 1923, Mr. Lookofsky opened a general clothing store at 131 South 2nd street. He became widely known throughout this section.
Mr. Lookofsky was a member of Temple Israel, the Masonic organization and was a Shriner. He was 50 years old.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rose Lookofsky; two sons, Leo Lookofsky, seaman second class in the Navy, stationed in California, and Ben Lookofsky, operator of Look's Children Shop here; two daughters, Miss Dorothy Lookofsky and Mrs. Bernard Michaelson, Paducah; two brothers, Mike Lookofsky, Nashville, and Ben Lookofsky, California; three sisters, Mrs. Molly Marcus, Mrs. Sylvia Lacks and Mrs. Ida Bernstein, St. Louis, and three grandchildren, Simon J. Michaelson, Marcia and Freddie Lookofsky, Paducah.
Funeral services probably will be held Wednesday or Thursday at Roth funeral home. Burial will be in the Temple Israel cemetery.
Mr. Lookofsky's sailor son will arrive home Wednesday.
Others dead in the crash included Georgia Hawkins, Milwaukee; Eddie Lewis Marshall, Hutting, Ark.; Dorothy Jane Pate, 41, Memphis and Ed, White, 62, Johnston City.
._______ ∼
Johnston City, Ill., Sept. 20—(U.P.) – A Greyhound Bus Company official said today that a "complete" investigation would be made "shortly" of a bus-train collision near here yesterday in which seven persons were killed and 53 were injured.
The official expressed the belief that failure of the crowded bus' brakes to hold caused it to crash into a two-car Diesel powered Missouri Pacific passenger train at a crossing two miles from here early yesterday.
He also said that injured bus passengers told him they called to Driver J. R. Hard, 38, Memphis, as the bus rolled down a grade toward the crossing when he failed to slow the vehicle for the approaching train. The official said Hard "might have had a heart attack at the time, as passengers said they saw him slump over the wheel before the crash."
The wrecked bus, meanwhile, its front demolished, was taken to the fairgrounds at Marion where bus and railroad company officials will conduct the inquiry, the official said, adding that the driver's foot may have slipped from the brake pedal as the bus neared the crossing.
A coroner's inquest into the accident will be held today at Marion, Williamson County Coroner L. W. Gassawy said.
Paducah Sun-Democrat,
Paducah, Ky
Monday, September 20, 1943, p. 1 and 5
∼
GREYHOUND BUS
AND PASSENGER
TRAIN COLLIDE.
7 KILLED, 53 HURT
IN ILLINOIS IN
GRADE CROSSING
TRAGEDY.
Johnson City, Ill. -- (AP) -- Collision of a crowded Greyhound bus and a two-car Missouri Pacific railroad passenger train killed seven persons and injured at least 53 yesterday.
In the accident at a crossing two miles south of here the cab and one side of the bus were smashed and the engine-baggage car of the Diesel powered train was overturned.
All but five of the casualties were passengers on the bus bound from Memphis, Tenn., for Chicago. Among the slightly injured were DR. LUCIANO MILLA CISNEROS, 53, Honduran minister to Guatemala, and his daughter, SOFIA MILLA, 22. They were en route to Rochester, Minn.
Hospitals at West Frankfort, Herrin and Marion and an emergency center established by the Red Cross and civilian defense in Herrin cared for the injured.
Coroner Lon W. Gasaway of Williamson county identified the dead as:
J. R. HARD, 38, Memphis, the bus driver.
LOUIS LOOKOFSKY, Paducah, Ky.
ED WHITE, Johnson City.
DOROTHY PATE, Memphis.
EDDIE LOUIS MARSHALL, one year old Negro, Hutting, Ark.
GEORGIA HAWKINS, Negro, Milwaukee.
An Unidentified Woman who was decapitated. [sic: Mrs. Blanche Bostic, of Memphis, Tennessee]
The Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas
Monday, September 20, 1943, p. 8
.
Louis Lookofsky, Paducah, Is
Killed In Bus-Train Accident
____
Mishap Occurs At
Johnston City, Ill.
____
Louis Lookofsky, widely known merchant who had been in business here since 1909 was instantly killed early Sunday when a Greyhound bus on which he was riding collided with a two-car Diesel-powered Missouri Pacific Railroad passenger train, at a crossing near Johnston City, Ill., about 10 miles north of Marion.
Mr. Lookofsky was on a business trip to Chicago.
The bus carried 54 passengers. Six persons, besides Mr. Lookofsky, died. About 50 others were injured.
The brakes on the bus apparently failed on a slight down grade and the heavy vehicle crashed into the first car of the small train. The engine overturned and caught fire.
Flames were extinguished by the engineer while his foot was caught in the wreckage. He escaped with minor injuries, it was reported.
J. R. Hart, about 45, driver of the bus died on his way to a hospital shortly after the crash. He lived in Memphis and was known in Paducah through his association with the local Greyhound office. He is survived by his widow and two children.
The front part of the bus which was Chicago bound from Memphis, via Paducah, was torn away. One woman, still unidentified Monday morning, was thrown clear of the wreckage and decapitated. Some of the passengers were standing in the aisle, according to a news report from the United Press.
Only three passengers were aboard the train and none was seriously hurt. The three crewmen also escaped with minor injuries.
The bus was reportedly moving about 40 miles an hours. Investigators are exploring the possibility the driver's foot slipped from the brake pedal on the grade, to United Press said.
Hospitals at West Frankfort, Herrin and Marion and an emergency center established by the Red Cross and Civilian Defense cared for the injured.
Mr. Lookofsky was evidently sitting near the front of the bus. Nature of his injuries were not disclosed.
Mr. Lookofsky came to New York from Russia at the age of 15. He later lived in St. Louis for three years with his parents.
He came to Paducah in 1909 and established a shoe store at Eleventh street and Broadway. Mr. Lookofsky moved his business to 206 Broadway in 1911. The concern operated under the name of the Boston Shoe Store.
In 1923, Mr. Lookofsky opened a general clothing store at 131 South 2nd street. He became widely known throughout this section.
Mr. Lookofsky was a member of Temple Israel, the Masonic organization and was a Shriner. He was 50 years old.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rose Lookofsky; two sons, Leo Lookofsky, seaman second class in the Navy, stationed in California, and Ben Lookofsky, operator of Look's Children Shop here; two daughters, Miss Dorothy Lookofsky and Mrs. Bernard Michaelson, Paducah; two brothers, Mike Lookofsky, Nashville, and Ben Lookofsky, California; three sisters, Mrs. Molly Marcus, Mrs. Sylvia Lacks and Mrs. Ida Bernstein, St. Louis, and three grandchildren, Simon J. Michaelson, Marcia and Freddie Lookofsky, Paducah.
Funeral services probably will be held Wednesday or Thursday at Roth funeral home. Burial will be in the Temple Israel cemetery.
Mr. Lookofsky's sailor son will arrive home Wednesday.
Others dead in the crash included Georgia Hawkins, Milwaukee; Eddie Lewis Marshall, Hutting, Ark.; Dorothy Jane Pate, 41, Memphis and Ed, White, 62, Johnston City.
._______ ∼
Johnston City, Ill., Sept. 20—(U.P.) – A Greyhound Bus Company official said today that a "complete" investigation would be made "shortly" of a bus-train collision near here yesterday in which seven persons were killed and 53 were injured.
The official expressed the belief that failure of the crowded bus' brakes to hold caused it to crash into a two-car Diesel powered Missouri Pacific passenger train at a crossing two miles from here early yesterday.
He also said that injured bus passengers told him they called to Driver J. R. Hard, 38, Memphis, as the bus rolled down a grade toward the crossing when he failed to slow the vehicle for the approaching train. The official said Hard "might have had a heart attack at the time, as passengers said they saw him slump over the wheel before the crash."
The wrecked bus, meanwhile, its front demolished, was taken to the fairgrounds at Marion where bus and railroad company officials will conduct the inquiry, the official said, adding that the driver's foot may have slipped from the brake pedal as the bus neared the crossing.
A coroner's inquest into the accident will be held today at Marion, Williamson County Coroner L. W. Gassawy said.
Paducah Sun-Democrat,
Paducah, Ky
Monday, September 20, 1943, p. 1 and 5
∼
GREYHOUND BUS
AND PASSENGER
TRAIN COLLIDE.
7 KILLED, 53 HURT
IN ILLINOIS IN
GRADE CROSSING
TRAGEDY.
Johnson City, Ill. -- (AP) -- Collision of a crowded Greyhound bus and a two-car Missouri Pacific railroad passenger train killed seven persons and injured at least 53 yesterday.
In the accident at a crossing two miles south of here the cab and one side of the bus were smashed and the engine-baggage car of the Diesel powered train was overturned.
All but five of the casualties were passengers on the bus bound from Memphis, Tenn., for Chicago. Among the slightly injured were DR. LUCIANO MILLA CISNEROS, 53, Honduran minister to Guatemala, and his daughter, SOFIA MILLA, 22. They were en route to Rochester, Minn.
Hospitals at West Frankfort, Herrin and Marion and an emergency center established by the Red Cross and civilian defense in Herrin cared for the injured.
Coroner Lon W. Gasaway of Williamson county identified the dead as:
J. R. HARD, 38, Memphis, the bus driver.
LOUIS LOOKOFSKY, Paducah, Ky.
ED WHITE, Johnson City.
DOROTHY PATE, Memphis.
EDDIE LOUIS MARSHALL, one year old Negro, Hutting, Ark.
GEORGIA HAWKINS, Negro, Milwaukee.
An Unidentified Woman who was decapitated. [sic: Mrs. Blanche Bostic, of Memphis, Tennessee]
The Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas
Monday, September 20, 1943, p. 8
.
Killed In Bus-Train Accident
____
Mishap Occurs At
Johnston City, Ill.
____
Louis Lookofsky, widely known merchant who had been in business here since 1909 was instantly killed early Sunday when a Greyhound bus on which he was riding collided with a two-car Diesel-powered Missouri Pacific Railroad passenger train, at a crossing near Johnston City, Ill., about 10 miles north of Marion.
Mr. Lookofsky was on a business trip to Chicago.
The bus carried 54 passengers. Six persons, besides Mr. Lookofsky, died. About 50 others were injured.
The brakes on the bus apparently failed on a slight down grade and the heavy vehicle crashed into the first car of the small train. The engine overturned and caught fire.
Flames were extinguished by the engineer while his foot was caught in the wreckage. He escaped with minor injuries, it was reported.
J. R. Hart, about 45, driver of the bus died on his way to a hospital shortly after the crash. He lived in Memphis and was known in Paducah through his association with the local Greyhound office. He is survived by his widow and two children.
The front part of the bus which was Chicago bound from Memphis, via Paducah, was torn away. One woman, still unidentified Monday morning, was thrown clear of the wreckage and decapitated. Some of the passengers were standing in the aisle, according to a news report from the United Press.
Only three passengers were aboard the train and none was seriously hurt. The three crewmen also escaped with minor injuries.
The bus was reportedly moving about 40 miles an hours. Investigators are exploring the possibility the driver's foot slipped from the brake pedal on the grade, to United Press said.
Hospitals at West Frankfort, Herrin and Marion and an emergency center established by the Red Cross and Civilian Defense cared for the injured.
Mr. Lookofsky was evidently sitting near the front of the bus. Nature of his injuries were not disclosed.
Mr. Lookofsky came to New York from Russia at the age of 15. He later lived in St. Louis for three years with his parents.
He came to Paducah in 1909 and established a shoe store at Eleventh street and Broadway. Mr. Lookofsky moved his business to 206 Broadway in 1911. The concern operated under the name of the Boston Shoe Store.
In 1923, Mr. Lookofsky opened a general clothing store at 131 South 2nd street. He became widely known throughout this section.
Mr. Lookofsky was a member of Temple Israel, the Masonic organization and was a Shriner. He was 50 years old.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rose Lookofsky; two sons, Leo Lookofsky, seaman second class in the Navy, stationed in California, and Ben Lookofsky, operator of Look's Children Shop here; two daughters, Miss Dorothy Lookofsky and Mrs. Bernard Michaelson, Paducah; two brothers, Mike Lookofsky, Nashville, and Ben Lookofsky, California; three sisters, Mrs. Molly Marcus, Mrs. Sylvia Lacks and Mrs. Ida Bernstein, St. Louis, and three grandchildren, Simon J. Michaelson, Marcia and Freddie Lookofsky, Paducah.
Funeral services probably will be held Wednesday or Thursday at Roth funeral home. Burial will be in the Temple Israel cemetery.
Mr. Lookofsky's sailor son will arrive home Wednesday.
Others dead in the crash included Georgia Hawkins, Milwaukee; Eddie Lewis Marshall, Hutting, Ark.; Dorothy Jane Pate, 41, Memphis and Ed, White, 62, Johnston City.
._______ ∼
Johnston City, Ill., Sept. 20—(U.P.) – A Greyhound Bus Company official said today that a "complete" investigation would be made "shortly" of a bus-train collision near here yesterday in which seven persons were killed and 53 were injured.
The official expressed the belief that failure of the crowded bus' brakes to hold caused it to crash into a two-car Diesel powered Missouri Pacific passenger train at a crossing two miles from here early yesterday.
He also said that injured bus passengers told him they called to Driver J. R. Hard, 38, Memphis, as the bus rolled down a grade toward the crossing when he failed to slow the vehicle for the approaching train. The official said Hard "might have had a heart attack at the time, as passengers said they saw him slump over the wheel before the crash."
The wrecked bus, meanwhile, its front demolished, was taken to the fairgrounds at Marion where bus and railroad company officials will conduct the inquiry, the official said, adding that the driver's foot may have slipped from the brake pedal as the bus neared the crossing.
A coroner's inquest into the accident will be held today at Marion, Williamson County Coroner L. W. Gassawy said.
Paducah Sun-Democrat,
Paducah, Ky
Monday, September 20, 1943, p. 1 and 5
∼
GREYHOUND BUS
AND PASSENGER
TRAIN COLLIDE.
7 KILLED, 53 HURT
IN ILLINOIS IN
GRADE CROSSING
TRAGEDY.
Johnson City, Ill. -- (AP) -- Collision of a crowded Greyhound bus and a two-car Missouri Pacific railroad passenger train killed seven persons and injured at least 53 yesterday.
In the accident at a crossing two miles south of here the cab and one side of the bus were smashed and the engine-baggage car of the Diesel powered train was overturned.
All but five of the casualties were passengers on the bus bound from Memphis, Tenn., for Chicago. Among the slightly injured were DR. LUCIANO MILLA CISNEROS, 53, Honduran minister to Guatemala, and his daughter, SOFIA MILLA, 22. They were en route to Rochester, Minn.
Hospitals at West Frankfort, Herrin and Marion and an emergency center established by the Red Cross and civilian defense in Herrin cared for the injured.
Coroner Lon W. Gasaway of Williamson county identified the dead as:
J. R. HARD, 38, Memphis, the bus driver.
LOUIS LOOKOFSKY, Paducah, Ky.
ED WHITE, Johnson City.
DOROTHY PATE, Memphis.
EDDIE LOUIS MARSHALL, one year old Negro, Hutting, Ark.
GEORGIA HAWKINS, Negro, Milwaukee.
An Unidentified Woman who was decapitated. [sic: Mrs. Blanche Bostic, of Memphis, Tennessee]
The Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas
Monday, September 20, 1943, p. 8
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