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Note: Newspaper article(AP): Five youths, 4 of them brothers were killed early today when thir car slammed into the side of a speeding freight train at a crossing in Toledo's South Side. Police said the twisted wreckage of the car had been dragged at at least one mile by the train before it could be stopped. Four of the victims were dead at the scene. The fifth died on the way to the hospital. Dead are the driver, David Myles, 17; his girlfriend Marilyn Donbrowsky, 16; and 3 of David's brothers: Dean, 16, Dwight, 9, and Dennis, 13. Police said the youngsters were on their way home from a church youth meeting when the accident occured.
Dec 15, 71: An article in the Columbus Dispatch by David Cain added: Scores of youth crowded the Calvary Assembly of God Church in southern Toledo Tuesday Afternoon. 30 of them were pallbearers for the 5 youngsters killed when a train hit their car early Saturday. "I don't understand it but its God's will. And God doesn't make mistakes" said Mrs Lawrence Myles. The kids had come to the same church Friday night to play basketball in the church gymnasium. Shortly after midnight they began the short trip to Temperance Mich. where Marilyn lived. But they took a new route when the driver, David saw two pals wolking along the road and offered them a ride home. After letting them out, he drove northbound on a road which relatives said was unfamiliar to him. The road rounds a curve just before crossing a set of railroad tracks which are partially blocked from view by green houses. A high Speed freight train struck the auto broadside and dragged it for almost a mile. At the funeral, the Rev. J Donald McManness said ti was not unusual for the youths to come to the church four nights a week for services and recreation. David rode in the hearse that carried the boys to the cemetery. He said he had often dealt with fatal accidents but none affected him like this one since the boys were his cousins.
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