Eldena, IL Train And Truck Collision, Sept 1966
Posted March 27th, 2009 by Stu Beitler
TRAIN AND TRUCK COLLIDE; 6 DEAD.
Eldena, Ill. (AP) -- A tragic train-truck accident in the northwestern Illinois community of Eldena has taken the lives of five schoolboys and the elderly man drving them home.
The victims were killed Tuesday in a collision of an Illinois Central freight train and an open pickup truck driven by EVERETT MULLINS, 73, the school janitor. One of the boys was riding in the cab of the truck, the others were riding in the open bed.
The boys helped MULLINS load a grader on the truck and then jumped on the rear to steady the equipment. The grader was being hauled across the tracks which are approximately 75 feet from the elementary school. All the boys were students at the school.
The victims were: JAMES SHOEMAKER, 12, Eldena; WILLIAM BOTHE, 13, Amboy; REID MILLER, 12, Amboy; ROBERT MICHAEL ENLOW, 14, Amboy, and MARTIN A CRUZE, 13, Dixon.
Muscatine Journal Iowa 1966-09-21
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Researched and Transcribed by Stu Beitler. Thank you, Stu!
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wreck.
i can remember that. happening my dad and i where at the feed store getting cattle feed . when it happen I remember my dad and the guys from the store and the grain company running over to help.and my dad telling me to stay the !@# their. and i did .they all came back crying .he didnt say a work all the way home. not theirs no traintracks and no school. i was seven at the time..
That day in Eldena.
I was in the school that day and my life has never been the same. I now live in South Carolina and would like to reconnect with some of the people from back then. I was a 7th grader and the boys were all 8th graders.