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Show OPEN SWITCH CAUSES WRECK Seven Killed ad Several Injured as Result of Accident. Erie, Pa. Seven persons were killed and twenty injured, three probably prob-ably fatally, when New York Central train No. GO, eastbound, sideswiped train No. 23, westbound, 200 feet west of the Union depot here at noon Wednesday. A switch, thought to have been thrown by members of a section gang, working at the scene of the wreck, is believed to have caused the accident. Police and firemen were forced to use ladders in taking the dead and injured in-jured from the wreckage. All of the dead were badly mangled and it Is almost al-most impossible to identify three of the dead until the Pullman list can be chocked up. |