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Show Four People Perish in a Collision. Four perauTrS-TW. u MHod Aoteti. I ,ty-nine injured, several of them Dossi- I Ibly fatally, in a collision on the Chicago Chi-cago & Northwest ern railroad Sunday at Malta, 111., sixt y miles west of Chicago. Chi-cago. The trains in collision were the Omaha Flyer and an eastbound freight train. The wrecU caught fire and two passenger coaches, one sleeping car and eight freigh cars were burned, and another sleeping car was partly burned. The freight train had taken a siding at Malta, but the train was longer than the siding and the fieight loco- motive protruded upon the main track beyond the sidetrack. The incoming passenger train frm the west was not stopped until the two locomotives cornered at the switch, the passenger engine being thrown into the ditch and several coaches piling on top of the wreck. The cars caught fire from the j locomotives. ! |