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Newspaper clipping from Grandma's scrapbook:
1933
"TWO DIE ON MORAN RAILWAY CROSSING
Floyd Hines, 19, and Lloyd Laslie, 20, of Bronson, Are Crash Victims.
HOME FROM A THEATER
The Missouri Pacific's Sunflower Strikes with Motor Car and Youths Are Killed Almost Instantly.
(Special to The Tribune)
Bronson, Oct. 25. - Two Bronson farm youths were instantly killed at Moran, Kan., when their motor car was struck by an east-bound Missouri Pacific passenger train on a crossing at the edge of the Moran business district.
The dead:
Floyd Hines, 19 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Hines.
Lloyd Laslie, 20 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Laslie.
Both families live just north of Bronson.
Riding in the Hines car, a Chevrolet sedan, the boys came to Bronson last evening and apparently decided to drive on to Moran.
They went to a theater in Moran and evidently started immediately for Bronson after the show was over.
The crossing where the accident took place is right at the south edge of the Moran business district, where the Missouri Pacific tracks cross U. S. Highway 54. A large grain elevator is situated close to the crossing in Moran where the crash occurred.
The Missouri Pacific's crack passenger train, running from Wichita to St. Louis, is due in Moran at 9:25 o'clock. It makes no stop between Iola and Fort Scott and does not stop at Moran. The boys evidently did not see the approaching passenger train, or thought they could get across the tracks before it reached them.
The passenger train struck the sedan and virtually demolished it. Both boys were thrown from the car and when nearby persons had reached the scene both youths were lying at the foot of a telephone pole near the crossing.
Laslie is believed to have died almost instantly. Hines lived only a few minutes. Physicians were summoned and the bodies of the two victims were removed to the Ralston Funeral Home at Moran. The bodies were not badly mangled by the crash, the fact that the boys were thrown clear of the wreckage of their car saving them from being run over by the train.
Laslie has been making his home with the Hines family recently. Members of the family said the two boys left the house about 7:30 o'clock last night to go to the show at Moran.
Funeral services for young Hines will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Bronson Methodist church. Funeral arrangements for Laslie had not been completed early this afternoon.
The passenger train was in charge of Engineer Ollie Towe and Conductor Hill, both of Nevada."
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