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Seven Negro children killed in bus truck crash near Cross Roads
On a rural highway near Cross Roads Madisonville region seven black students died and twelve were injured when a Cobbs Manufacturing truck collided with a school bus. Harold Neaves of Fort Worth, driving from Houston to Fort Worth, could not stop the heavily loaded truck. The bus driver Miss Narvis Spencer survived. several injured were hospitalized in Huntsville with varied outcomes.
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Madisonville
Ben Waldrip
Cross-Roads
Here
James Lee Johnson
Grant Clay
Katie
Memorial Hospital
Huntsville
Katie Clay
Waldrip
Harold Neaves
Fort Worth
Cobbs Manufacturing Company
Houston
Neaves
Floyd Green
Centerville
Narvis Spencer
Green
Spencer
Huntsville Hospital
O. C. Brown
Joe Elmer McDaniels
Bessie Brown
Ollie Clay
Napoleon Allen
Otho Baker
Georgia Clay
Ruby Johnson
Jewell Johnson
David Brown
Elizabeth Williams