Investigators look into tragic parade accident

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

• Bystanders react as emergency personnel work the scene where a trailer carrying wounded veterans in a parade was struck by a train Thursday in Midland, Texas. “Show of Support” president and founder Terry Johnson says there are “multiple injuries” after a Union Pacific...

MIDLAND, Texas—Cheered on by a flag-waving crowd, a parade float filled with wounded veterans and their spouses was inching across a railroad track when the crossing gates began to lower and a freight train that seemed to come out of nowhere was suddenly bearing down on them, its horn blari...

Published: 11/17/2012