Hamburg, PA Bus Accident, Sep 1933

2 KILLED AND 22 INJURED IN BUS ACCIDENT.

PITTSBURGH MAN AND WOMAN VICTIMS IN MISHAP NEAR HAMBURG, PA.

EIGHT PASSENGERS TAKEN TO HOSPITALS.

Hamburg, Pa., Sept. 24. -- Two persons were killed and 22 others injured as a New York - to - Harrisburg bus upset on the William Penn Highway, three miles west of Hamburg, today.
The dead:
P. G. McGANN, 50, of Pittsburgh.
MISS ROSE REGENSTEIN, 25, of Pittsburgh.
Eight other passengers are in Reading hospitals and 12 persons, not injured so seriously, were treated by a physician and continued their journeys.
The more seriously injured:
MRS. EDITH SMITH, 44, of Grand Rapids, Mich., broken ankle, cuts and bruises of the right hand and scalp cuts.
ROBERT HENDERSON, 23, of East Newark, N.J., forehead cuts, severe bruises of the right shoulder, which may turn out to be a fracture.
MRS. CATHARINE McGANN, 49, wife of P. G. McGANN, Pittsburgh, right arm and left leg bruised and may be broken.
CHARLES A. KRUM, 38, of New York, right shoulder blade bruised and may be broken.
DONALD McCORMACK, 28, of Detroit, Mich., dislocated right shoulder.
FRANK FAGANANO, 37, of Woodcliff, N.J., broken ankle.
J. THOMAS BARRETT, 58, of New York, dislocated shoulder.
MRS. ELLA FUNKHOUSER, Newark, N.J., back injuries.
State highway patrolmen report the bus turned over as JOSEPH WALSH of New York and Harrisburg, the driver, attempted to swerve it to avoid an aged man walking on the highway. The rear wheels of the bus, police said, slipped off the wet roadway, swinging the heavy machine so violently that it turned upside down.
McGANN and MISS REGENSTEIN were crushed to death. State highway patrolmen reported WALSH, driving westbound, had passed another machine within the range of the bus headlights.

Titusville Herald Pennsylvania 1933-09-25
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Researched and Transcribed by Stu Beitler. Thank you, Stu!