On the morning of Sunday April 22, 1934, a bread van carrying eight people, the driver and seven children, was struck by a Missouri-Kansas-Texas train at a grade crossing on Probandt Street in San Antonio. Four of the children were killed. The driver and three children survived with varying degrees of injury. The driver was a deacon at the church where he was taking the children to Sunday school. It was only short drive between the last house and the church. The grade crossing had no gates or safety signals. The train was significantly late and the driver was probably not expecting any rail activity. He applied the brakes when he saw the train but could not stop in time and the rear of the van, where the four children who were killed were riding, was struck by the train.

The grade crossing on Probandt, between Fest Street and Lachappelle Street, no longer exists. The tracks were pulled up after the Missouri-Kansas-Texas was purchased by the Union Pacific and both its large and small freight terminals in that the tracks served were closed. The former GH&SA tracks just a block or so further south are still in use. Since the MKT tracks were removed, new developments - mainly apartments - have been built. Fest Street no longer connects with Probandt and Lachappelle is no longer continuous.