Selma, California Train Wreck
May
6, 1923
SEVEN FRESNANS DAY AUTOS’ TOLL
Fresno, May 7--Sunday’s toll in automobile
accidents here numbers seven dead, two reported
dying in hospitals and another seriously
injured.
Six met death near Selma when a Southern Pacific
train struck an automobile on the Saginaw avenue
crossing. All were relatives. The machine was
thrown one hundred feet by the impact, while
death to the six passengers is said to have been
instantaneous.
The dead are JOHN
DEMOTS, MRS. JOHN DEMOTS, EDWARD DEMOTS,
all of Orange Cove,
MRS. CONRAD JONGEWAARD of Merced, and
DR. and MRS. JAMES W.
OGGE of Orange City, Ia.
Mrs. FRANK DELANA,
of Gregg, Madera county, died soon after the
automobile accident on a Southern Pacific
railway crossing near here.
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno, NV 6 May 1923
Transcribed by Audrey. Thank you,
Audrey!
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