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Six die as bus crashes through bridge hole in Lake Pontchartrain
A Continental Trailways bus plummeted through a 240 foot hole ripped in the world’s longest bridge by a gravel barge and sank in 15 feet of water. Six of the eight aboard died, including five men and one woman. The bus driver Ernest Vaughn and a passenger survived. Survivors were rescued by passersby. divers recovered the remaining bodies. Police identified five victims by name and origin. the sixth victim was described only as a middle aged Negro woman. The barge was one of two towed by the Rebel Junior. rescuers included Jackie Church and Bernard Gautreau.
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New Orleans
UPI
Continental Trailways
Lake Pontchartrain
Jackson
Miss
Charles Perrone
Chicago
William Ellis Wilson
Prentiss
Michael Clayton Schultz
Manchester
N.H
George W. Groa
Cleveland
Ohio
Willie Crosley Matthews
Bogalusa
Ernest Vaughn
Army
William Cockerham
Halon Rouge
Vaughn
Ochsner Foundation
Cockerham
U.S. Public Health Service
Bridge
Rebel Junior
Jackie Church
Mandeville
Bernard Gautreau
Abita Springs