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Show FiVE ARE KILLED SS SLIOE HITS 01 U. TRAIN Storm Causes a Huge Shale Mountain to Overrun Track In Colorado THREE BROTHERS IN ACCIDENT MEET DEATH Fireman and Engineer Perish At Post of Duty When Crash Comes on AND JUNCTION, Colo.. Sept. 13. Five men were killed early v ester-day ester-day when westbound Klo Grande passenger pass-enger train No. 1 was struck by a landslide near Debeque, Colo Reports yesterday pave the death list as two. The d- ad: rge L Harden burg, engineer, and Charles v Schwermann, fireman, Grand Junction; Floyd 17. Kalph. la and Law rem e Brundje, 21, hrothe-rs, QlenWOOd Springs. Colo. The engine, lender, baggage and mall cars and two coaches left the track The mall clerk, express iikss- enger and several passengers were In-1 In-1 jured but not seriously. The dead arc: . urge I lardc-nburg, engineer, ami Charles Schwendenman, fireman, both of this city. linger was brought to a local hospital hos-pital whero physicians say he will die. He la about 21 years old. The accident happened at Nigger . Hill, a great oil shale mountain I about 42 miles east of here. It starl- cd to slide Just as the train was pass-Ing pass-Ing early Sunday morning and hundreds hun-dreds of tons of rock and dirt are plied -on. Oia track. The mbuntaln-lide mbuntaln-lide v is still sliding last night. Koul- lers weighing many tonj are reported to be erushlng down the hillside, bringing much loose dirt with them. Railroad officials here said that If the mountain stops sliding todav, workmen will start clearing the track at once, but that at least a week or ii ii days win be required to complete the task. |