Two die in bus accident in Poplar Bluff

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Two Joplin, Mo., residents died Sunday afternoon when a trailer being pulled by a pickup truck unhitched and crossed U.S. 60 and collided with a charter bus near here.

Richard Olsen, 66, and Sharon Dejager were killed.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said Olsen was driving the bus, and Dejager was a passenger. Also in the charter bus were 40 teen-agers and advisers returning to Joplin from a conference in Nashville, Tenn. Also injured were Linda Johnson, 54, of Monett, Mo., who was flown to St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau and listed in serious condition, and Cathleen Lucke, 14, of Verona, Mo., received minor injuries.