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Show IJkiink.Juiio 15. A bornblo accident occurred on the Mocuchcn. Stein A liasle rn'lroad yesteidny through tho collapse of a bridge beneath n heavily loaded excursion train crowded with pcopio on uiair way 10 aucuu me inut-leal inut-leal (etc. Over 100 persons wcro killed outright, while hundreds wcro injured. Two engines and first car plunged into the river and all tho passengers in the car wcro drowned. Two cars remained re-mained suspended from tho bridge. All tho trainmen wcro killed. Thirteen cars were saved. Tlio bridge was nn iron skeleton structure, whicli was considered well built nnd substantial. The only apparent appar-ent reason for tho collapso of the bridgo is that the train left tho rails and threw its cntlro weight Qu one sldo of tho bridge. Thp scenes witnessed, (n Bailo to-vay were heartrending when tho bodies of a large number of tlio victims wero taken thero by tho sorrowing lelatlves for representatives of tho majority of tlio best families of Halo were among tho killed mid injured. Sovcral fnuiilios woro practically ttiptil entirely out of existence by the disaster the full extent of which is not known oven nt this hour. Halo is now the scene of bitter desolation deso-lation nnd mourning. Nearly every family in tho city may bo said to havo i been touched by Iho calamity, for thoso i families who havo not actually lost ono ol their members have deni friends or ' acquaintances cither among the dead , or among those who are mourning the loss of relatives. |