Thirteen persons were killed at a crossing on the Texas and Pacific track about three miles west of Forney when the truck in which they were riding was struck by the fast Sunshine Special passenger train. The party of fourteen had spent the afternoon in Dallas at a zoo and had just left the Dallas-Forney highway to go to the Badgett home which is only a short distance from the scene of the disaster. According to reports the truck stopped a few feet from the track and then moved forward into the path of the oncoming train which demolished the truck and scattered the bodies of the occupants for several hundred yards down the track, eleven of them apparently being killed instantly and two others mortally wounded. The dead are:

MRS. IVA BADGETT, 55
VERA and ERA BADGETT, twins, 22
EMMA BADGETT, 19
TEXAS BADGETT, 16
BIRDY BADGETT, 9
JESSIE BADGETT, 7
MARY JO BADGETT, 3
E.F. McHENRY, 53
MRS. ANNIE McHENRY, 43
BEULAH McHENRY, 14
EMMA McHENRY, 10
BILLIE McHENRY, 4

Mary Lee McHenry, 7 years, was the only surviving member of the party. She was carried to a sanitarium in Dallas where it was said that her injuries likely would not prove fatal.

Funeral services for eight members of the Badgett family were held Tuesday at 9 a.m. at the First Baptist church at Mesquite, the Rev. L.B. Jenkins, pastor, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Robert Curl, Methodist minister.

The eight bodies were buried in a single grave in the Badgett family cemetery at Long Creek, eight miles east of Mesquite.

The bodies of the five members of the McHenry family were also buried in the Long Creek cemetery in one grave. The original plans of sending these bodies to Oklahoma for burial were changed Tuesday morning and interment was made Tuesday afternoon.

The following are the surviving members of the Badgett family: Sherwood P. Badgett, 48, the father; Bennie, 13; Rufus, 25; William, 21; Wilson, 23; Alex, 28; and John, 18.

Survivors of the McHenry family are Charles, only married son, and two married daughters, Mrs. Viola Welch of Seminole, Oklahoma, and Mrs. Lillie May Cleghorn of Allan, Arkansas, and Mary Lee McHenry.

J.T. Vawter, engineer and G.F. Martin, conductor, of the Sunshine Special are both residents of Fort Worth. Engineer Vawter brought the train on to Forney where he was relieved.

The Badgett and McHenry families were well and favorably known in this section and had numerous relatives and friends here. The annihilation of this happy picnic party has cast the shadow of gloom and sorrow over our city, and every heart is filled with sympathy for the surviving members of the once happy families. Everything has been done for them that loving hands and hearts could accomplish and in this as on other occasions, the kind hearted people of Forney and Mesquite have demonstrated their willingness to reach out a loving hand to all who are in distress, and by their friendship to make life's pathway easier for those in sorrow.