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mIDRIVER OF CAR INJURED FATALLY IN GRADE CROSSING CRASHImpact reduces 1959 sedan of Lewis Tierney to crumpled wreckageRepSenParDENY Barrv (•W'stoodonRepublichere forfuturecparty.About of the lt;Bv SAM BLACKBURN .Hall, Coahoma city marshal,Wr I wLewis Tierney, 54. died at and Walter Grice, justice of the 10:20 a.m. Thursday, two and;peace, said that Tierney was a half hours after his car wasjtravelling south, rammed by an eastbound Texas Pacific passenger trainN. 0. Decker was engineer and T. A. Underhill conductor The accident occurred on the!of passenger train No. 26,merits of the body for several hundred feet down the track.The front-end wreckage caught fire and Tierney was burned about the hands, head and shoulder. Henry said.engine. The train came halt at the accident butviewpoin hand insion of sGov. Tir tana. Abefore tvent ion. tion aft( the GO!during tlProgreeluding Ito a laterconvergi sion thachallengseemedproceeded on its way.impetus Chair mapassengerSalem Road Crossing of the TPl which they had taken over on tracks adjacent to the Reef its trip to Fort Worth. NeitherCorporation loading terminaland just north of San Springs.thev nor anyone else aboard the train was hurt.Tierney was removed to theHoward County Foundation Hospital by the liig Spring Ambu-|The impact tore the car apartlance Service after his 1959 se- hurling the front section about dan had been virtually demol-|^ anc* stringing the frag-ished.Henry said the train struck Tierney’s car in the right rear.TRAIN CONTINUESAmbulance drivers said thevictim was on the ground just in front of the wreckage of the car front-end in a semi-conscious condition when they reached the scene.Henry said he was told the impact caused about $25 damage to the front of the DieselThe Coahoma Fire Department was called and extinguished what fire there was in the wreckage. Two Rig Spring fire trucks also answered the call but their services were not needed.The most recent traffic death before today’s tragedy was that of E. P. Foley, 40. a Lurnber-ton, N. C, trucker. He was killed on IS 20 a few' miles east of today’s accident, on Sept 7.He had suffered severehead injuries, burns and shock.A musician by trade, he had played with various small bands and combos. At the time of his death, he was working with the Dale White Music Co. as a piano tunerSolidlywater. 1 0()0-a-yelt; vote insessionHoff aOusterMoveArvin Henry, highway patrol officer, who investigated the accident. said that Tierney’s death was the eighth road fatality charged to the county this year The body of the victim is at the Nalley-Pickle Funeral Homewhere arrangements are pending. He was born July 3. 1910. A sister. Mrs. Thelma Compton, Tulsa, Okla., was advised of her brother’s death Friends of the dead man said he has awife, Mrs. Georgia Tierney, who lives in Sunnvvale, Calif. NO OTHER INJURIESHenry, who was joined at the scene of the crash by Aubrey Standard, deputy sheriff, J. BRumorParleyACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) -\mid rumors from the United States of a move to oust Teamsters Union President James R. Hoffa, the union’s Executive Board is meeting in Acapulco with Hoffa presiding.Hoffa but it was considered (content in his labor empire doubtful such action would beisince his conviction on charges taken liecause of his popularity of federal jury tampering and with the rank and file. fraud, and for the use of an esti-Hoffa has aroused some dis-imated million dollars in unionGov. I elected seat tha in the nthat he the mee F. Cli one of Goldwat hotel re: would n Goldwat But th posed nominatUnion sources in this resort city and in Mexico City denied1that Hof fa’s ouster was the pur-of the conference. ThevUnit Pursuesposealso said there was no sigmfi-i cance to the meeting — being! held for the first time in Mexico It usually takes place inFlorida or California.Congo Rebelsmoney to pay his legal fees.Hoffa. underfrompressurethe board, has agreed to quit drawing on the union treasury for his legal costs.The Teamsters lawyers an-LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo (AP) — A mercenary-led gov-Sources in the United States have said no ouster move would be made until Hoffa’s appeals against his convictions are decided.arrive i Rockefe did notpresider] bringing water c01 Includ Winthro in his b ernorshi feller, it'___primarii grams, also inv of Main Volpe o in his p Signif bringing A Hinr
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Big Spring Daily Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Thu, Dec 03, 1964
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