The  Kokomo  Tribune
January 3, 1953
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          Two employees of the U.S. Naval Ordinance plant at Indianapolis were killed as Pennsylvania Railroad mail train struck their automobile at the Post Road crossing, east of Indianapolis.  The victims were  Frederick A. Bird,  30, Shelbyville, and Walker Bedwell,  24, Madison.  Fellow workers in another car said Bird and Bedwell waited fro a passenger train to clear the crossing and then drove into the path of the mail train.
Contributed by Janet McColley Franklin

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