Rockwall Co., TX - News: Rail Wreck Kills Six ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Holli Boone Kees USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Mansfield News Journal Mansfield Ohio 14 Dec 1953 Rail Wreck Kills Six Royse City, Tex. Six persons were killed in a station wagon-passenger train crash at Royse City, Tex., Sunday night and 33 aboard the crack streamliner, the “Katy Special” were injured. The dead were identified as Victory Saufley, about 45, a wealthy Dallas real estate dealer and former football star at Southern Methodist university, his wife, their three small children, William, four, and two year old twins, James and John, and a nurse, known only as Irma. Switches Train The smashed auto was hurled into a rail switch, throwing it to split the train, part of the 14 car Missouri, Kansas, and Texas diesel streamliner enroute from St. Louis to San Antonio, Tex., was sent wheeling down a side track. Four of the passengers were hospitalized and the 29 others were treated for bruises and released. ---