TWO WOMEN DEAD AFTER CAR ACCIDENT

MARBLE HILL -- Two women are dead following a two-vehicle accident on Highway 34 East near the Hahn Chapel Tuesday morning.

Dead are Arlene Seiler, 45, of Leopold and Anna Adams, 68, of Jackson.

Seiler was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which occurred about half a mile east of Marble Hill, said the Missouri Highway Patrol.

Adams was flown by helicopter to Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau where she died.

No one else was injured in the accident, said the patrol.

The accident occurred when Seiler's westbound car crossed the centerline and struck Adams' vehicle, the patrol said.

"I was in my living room when it happened," said Gerald Huff, pastor of Hahn Chapel. "It sounded like a bomb going off and the house shook."

Traffic was blocked on Highway 34 for more than an hour while crews tried to clear the wreckage.

Marble Hill police, Bollinger County sheriff's deputies, Civil Defense workers, Missouri Highway Patrol and Missouri Department of Transportation employees all responded to the accident scene.

Southeast Missouri News Service contributed information to this report.