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Race Horse Van in Five-Truck Collision; Two Lose Their Lives CICERO, 111., May 21.— Four race horses, en route to Hawthorne where the Lincoln Fields meeting is in progress, narrowly escaped injury in a spectacular five-truck pile-up on the Lincoln Highway US30, near Chicago Heights, early this morning. Two truck drivers were killed in the mishap which was attributed to the dense fog that enveloped the area. The chain reaction started, according to reports from observers, when Edward Brown, of East St. Louis, who was driving the horse van, slowed down his trailer because of the fog near the intersection one block east of State Street. As he came almost to a complete stop, a second truck driven by Richard Bower, 27, of Orville, Ohio, crashed into the rear of the van. A few seconds later a third trailer truck piled into the wreckage and as the driver of the latter vehicle, Clarence Wade. 30, got out of his cab to place a warning flare behind his vehicle, a fourth truck approached. The driver of the latter, Edward Tull, of Matoon, HI., swerved in an attempt to avoid hitting Wades truck. He knocked down Wade, who was killed outright. Tull, himself, was killed when a fifth truck smashed into the wreckage. The impact jolted a load of steel sheets into Tulls cab, crushing him to death. The driver of the fifth truck, James Cropp, 64, of Louisville, Ky., wasnt injured and neither were Brown nor Bower. All five trucks were west bound on Lincoln Highway.- The four horses were consigned to trainer Del Holeman at Hawthorne, and were Conquerant, Wild Fox, the crack sprinter Roman Sandal, a candidate for Saturdays Fleming Memorial, and a two-year-old.
