"Doodlebug"
"Doodlebug" July 31, 1940. On an average summer day, a passenger shuttle that ran from Hudson, Ohio to Akron, Ohio collided head on with a 73 car freight train. There were 46 passengers aboard. It was the worst crash in Cuyahoga Falls history. Survivors: Thomas L. Murtaugh, Engineer; Harry B. Shafer, Conductor; Tod E. Wonn. Victims of Cuyahoga Falls: Earl C. Clifford, Elmer E. Davis, Betty Fahrney, Lois Helmick, Loren C. Morris, Mary Fahrney, Joan Schreiber, Charles T. Squires, Jr., Fred H. Palmer, Cleon H. Wills, Nelson Vaughn. Victims of Other Cities: Louis Fountain, Cleveland, OH; A.J. Bailiff, Akron, OH; L.C. Letzkus, Pittsburgh, PA; Charles W. Frank, Akron, OH; Adam Ellenbrook, Akron, OH; Margaret Lagani, Bayonne, NJ; Wilbur Harpley, Akron, OH; William Schmitz, Mecken, WV; W.P. McKee, Akron, OH; Bruce Kelly, Akron, OH; E.W. Gibbons, Endicoff, NY; Ernest C. Durbin, New Castle, PA; Lois A. Perry, Akron, OH; Lillian Gilbo, Akron, OH; Albert Johns, Akron, OH; C.E. Tarleton, Akron, OH; Otto Bedarf, Akron, OH; Albert Burke, Akron, OH; Sophie Ellis, Akron, OH; Russell Way, Akron, OH; Leonard Kirchner, Akron, OH; Nina Kirchner, Akron, OH; Fred Howard Duve, Akron, OH; Nina J. Morley, Akron, OH; Jacob Henry Peters, Akron, OH; Charles Bilderdeck, Crew; Mary Badonsky, Akron, OH; Anastasia Miksa, Pittsburgh, PA; W.H. Rice, Pittsburgh, PA; Dolores Simpson, Charleston, WV; Harry B. Smock, Cambridge, OH; Robert Orem, Unknown.