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Show ELECTRIC TRI$ COLLIDE HEAD-ON NEAR SPOKANE Twelve Lives Sacrificed as Result of Carelessness of Train Crew Which Failed to Obey Orders. Sokane, Twelve are known to be dead and nearly fifty injured in a collision on the Coeur d'Alene & Spokane electric railway, twenty five miles east of Spokane. Saturday afternoon. aft-ernoon. Passenger traffic on the line was particularly heavy on account of the tnousands passing between Spokane Spok-ane and Coeur d'Alene to register for reservation lands. The two trains collided head-on. The one coming from Coeur d'Alene, crowded to overflowing, was complet-ly complet-ly wrecked the cars being ground to splinters. The moans and cries of the injured filled the air and the whole scene was one of indescribable confusion. Officials of the line have as yet made no statement as to the responsibility respon-sibility for the wreck. It is said the eastbound train did not take a sidetrack side-track as it was ordered to. The moborman of the westbound train is among the dead. Both trains were running at high speed, especially the westbound train, and were presumably pre-sumably beyond control. |