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TRAIN-CAR 1-1-1
A 42-year-old Denton carpenter is killed in a train- car crash at a grade crossing on state highway 157, one-half mile south of Euless. The highway patrol identifies the dead man as Sidney A. Morse. Morse's car struck the side of a Fort Worth and Denver freight about four o'clock this afternoon. After the impact, the vehicle was hurled into a ditch. Morse, apparently, was killed instantly. MED. MAN TALKING TO COPS A witness, Ted Williams of Arlington, says he pulled his car off the road when the death car, traveling north, passed several cars at a high rate of speed. LONG CROWD AND CROSSING SIGNALS The crossing signals were operating at the time of the accident says B. Paris of Arlington. Paris, : driving south, says he saw the train and tried to warn Morse of the danger. CAR PULLED UP EMBANKMENT Witnesses say Morse's auto hit the seventh car of the eastbound freight. The train, its
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Denton carpenter dying in an accident between a car and a train.
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