Extracted from The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (Walla Walla, WA)
Truck Crash Kills Four
KOUNTZE, Tex. (AP) -- Four persons were burned to death Wednesday in a fiery explosion when three big trucks collided two and one-half miles south of this Southeast Texas town.
Three men and a woman died when two of the trucks crashed at high speed, exploding their gasoline tanks. One man, in a third truck, was the sole survivor.
The dead:
Englebert Bob Lightfoot, 48, of Liberty, Tex.
Edward J. Cruze, also believed a resident of Liberty.
Roscoe Grayson, 45, of Muskogee, Okla.
Dolores Ione Kline, address unknown. Her mother is Mrs. A. M. Kline of Tacoma.
Surviving the accident was John Russels of Kountze, driver of a truck loaded with logs.
“Most terrible accident I ever saw,” said Sheriff A. D. Lindsey of Kountz, Hardin county. “All four of those people were burned alive.”
Lightfoot and Cruze were in a construction company truck and trailer. Grayson and Dolores Kline were in a truck from a dairy of Muskogee.
Thursday, April 13, 1950