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Auto crash kills Army private and three girls near Hartwell
An Army private Pvt. James Batson aged 20 from Greenville and three young girls died when two cars collided seven miles south of Hartwell in Northeast Georgia. A 70-year-old woman also died and two others were injured as a car flipped on a curve in the path of the second vehicle. Sheriff C Inman Whitaker called it the worst wreck in 20 years.
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Hartwell, Ga
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Hartwell
C. Inman Whitaker
Hart County
Georgia
Pvt
James Perry Bat
Greenville
Eloise
Jane
Joyce Wright
Brewnanl
Athens
Royston
Brown
Waymon Fleming
Hart
Sheriff