Leland lived with his grandfather David Freeman and died at age 16, died in school bus fire coming from youth activity in West Union.
Story listed in paper
10 Perish on Flaming Bus
Machine Carrying NYA Youths Catches Fire After Overturning on Illinois Highway
Robinson, Ill., Dec. 18.-(AP)-Ten youths perished last night in the burning wreckage of a national youth administration bus that overturned near West Union.
At first only seven were believed trapped in the charred bus, but, today the bodies of 10 were found. All were burned beyond casual identification.
The bodies were moved to a vacant store building at Marshall, Ill., and behind curtained windows grief-stricken relatives today viewed them in an attempt to establish their identities.
Victims Listed
Clark County Coroner Howard E. Swinford said the dead were Richard McClure, Bernard Shonk, Earl Melton, Leland Johnson, Tom Ollinger, James Hoback and Henry Walters all of Marshall, and Winfred Andrews and Victor Turner, of Casey.
The bus was driven by Ferris Williams, of Casey, 35, who is in a critical condition from burns at a Robinson hospital.
The youths were returning to Marshall from Oblong where they had engaged in NYA project work.
Daily Chronicle, Centralia, WA 18 Dec 1941
Source:
http://www3.gendisasters.com/illinois/12421/west-union-il-youths-die-in-bus-fire-dec-1941
Story listed in paper
10 Perish on Flaming Bus
Machine Carrying NYA Youths Catches Fire After Overturning on Illinois Highway
Robinson, Ill., Dec. 18.-(AP)-Ten youths perished last night in the burning wreckage of a national youth administration bus that overturned near West Union.
At first only seven were believed trapped in the charred bus, but, today the bodies of 10 were found. All were burned beyond casual identification.
The bodies were moved to a vacant store building at Marshall, Ill., and behind curtained windows grief-stricken relatives today viewed them in an attempt to establish their identities.
Victims Listed
Clark County Coroner Howard E. Swinford said the dead were Richard McClure, Bernard Shonk, Earl Melton, Leland Johnson, Tom Ollinger, James Hoback and Henry Walters all of Marshall, and Winfred Andrews and Victor Turner, of Casey.
The bus was driven by Ferris Williams, of Casey, 35, who is in a critical condition from burns at a Robinson hospital.
The youths were returning to Marshall from Oblong where they had engaged in NYA project work.
Daily Chronicle, Centralia, WA 18 Dec 1941
Source:
http://www3.gendisasters.com/illinois/12421/west-union-il-youths-die-in-bus-fire-dec-1941
Leland lived with his grandfather David Freeman and died at age 16, died in school bus fire coming from youth activity in West Union.
Story listed in paper
10 Perish on Flaming Bus
Machine Carrying NYA Youths Catches Fire After Overturning on Illinois Highway
Robinson, Ill., Dec. 18.-(AP)-Ten youths perished last night in the burning wreckage of a national youth administration bus that overturned near West Union.
At first only seven were believed trapped in the charred bus, but, today the bodies of 10 were found. All were burned beyond casual identification.
The bodies were moved to a vacant store building at Marshall, Ill., and behind curtained windows grief-stricken relatives today viewed them in an attempt to establish their identities.
Victims Listed
Clark County Coroner Howard E. Swinford said the dead were Richard McClure, Bernard Shonk, Earl Melton, Leland Johnson, Tom Ollinger, James Hoback and Henry Walters all of Marshall, and Winfred Andrews and Victor Turner, of Casey.
The bus was driven by Ferris Williams, of Casey, 35, who is in a critical condition from burns at a Robinson hospital.
The youths were returning to Marshall from Oblong where they had engaged in NYA project work.
Daily Chronicle, Centralia, WA 18 Dec 1941
Source:
http://www3.gendisasters.com/illinois/12421/west-union-il-youths-die-in-bus-fire-dec-1941
Story listed in paper
10 Perish on Flaming Bus
Machine Carrying NYA Youths Catches Fire After Overturning on Illinois Highway
Robinson, Ill., Dec. 18.-(AP)-Ten youths perished last night in the burning wreckage of a national youth administration bus that overturned near West Union.
At first only seven were believed trapped in the charred bus, but, today the bodies of 10 were found. All were burned beyond casual identification.
The bodies were moved to a vacant store building at Marshall, Ill., and behind curtained windows grief-stricken relatives today viewed them in an attempt to establish their identities.
Victims Listed
Clark County Coroner Howard E. Swinford said the dead were Richard McClure, Bernard Shonk, Earl Melton, Leland Johnson, Tom Ollinger, James Hoback and Henry Walters all of Marshall, and Winfred Andrews and Victor Turner, of Casey.
The bus was driven by Ferris Williams, of Casey, 35, who is in a critical condition from burns at a Robinson hospital.
The youths were returning to Marshall from Oblong where they had engaged in NYA project work.
Daily Chronicle, Centralia, WA 18 Dec 1941
Source:
http://www3.gendisasters.com/illinois/12421/west-union-il-youths-die-in-bus-fire-dec-1941
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