Chicago Tour Bus Crashes, Killing 14

By Rachelle Bowden in News on Oct 9, 2004 2:55PM

Early this morning, a tour bus full of Chicagoans headed down to a Mississippi casino overturned on Interstate 55 in north-eastern Arkansas, near Memphis, Tennessee. At least 14 of the 30 people onboard were killed and it's unknown how many others were sent to the hospital for treatment.

The bus was the only vehicle in the crash. Some of the dead were found crushed beneath the bus after a wrecker crew arrived and pulled it upright. Witnesses and survivors of the crash said that the trip was uneventful then “the next thing we knew, we were off the road.” The cause of the accident is unknown.