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Two Die After Car Plunges from Overpass Near Tama
Two Cedar Rapids residents, Charles Russell Swyers and Beverlee Ann White, were killed when their car plunged from a railroad overpass five miles east of Tama on Highway 30, landing on tracks 35 feet below. The wreckage was found about 1:45 a.m. after a Milwaukee passenger train struck the car, sweeping the vehicle off the rails before the train could stop.
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Cedar Rapids
Tama
Milwaukee
Charles Russell Swyers
Beverlee Ann White
Eighteenth Street NE