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Seven Drown in Runaway Car
SABINE PASS, Tex. (AP) -- Seven persons drowned when their runaway car plunged into Texas Bayou near here on the Upper Texas Coast. Jim Bohler Sr., one of three survivors in a family party of 10, said, "I dived in once but the water was swift."
Killed in the Sunday night accident were Bohler's parents-in-law, Benson Cloud, 58, and Merkle Cloud, 49; the couple's daughter-in-law, Frances G. Cloiu, and her children, Scotty, 7, and Todd, 5, and two of Buhler's children, Tisha, 2, and Jim Jr., 3, and his brother- in-law Benson Cloud Jr., who had been driving, stepped from their parked car and left the engine idling. Suddenly the automobile lurched forward and gained speed as if someone inside hit the accelerator by accident while reaching for the brake, witnesses said. It then ran onto a boat ramp and plunged into the water. It floated briefly and Bohler's wife Dorothy, 25, escaped before the car sank with the others trapped inside.
The Daily Record, Mexico (MO) Ledger, p. 5, Monday, May 20, 1974
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1967 - 1974 (7 years)
