Salem, OH Train - Auto Wreck, Aug 1920

Submitted by Linda Horton

DEATH TOLL OF SIX

Taken When Passenger Train Crashes Into Auto Near Ohio Town.

EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, Aug. 8.----Five men were killed instantly and another died while being taken to a hospital when a Pennsylvania passenger train struck an automobile in which they were riding at a grade crossing in Salem, Ohio, near here, late this evening.

The dead men were all residents of Salem. They were said to be Rumanians and to have disregarded a watchman's order not to drive over the crossing.

The Lexington Herald, Lexington, KY 9 Aug 1920