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Show I MEET DEATH IN I ROARING FLAMES H Blunder of Railway Employe H Sends Scores of Immi- H grants to Death. H Passenger Train Loaded With Refu- H gees From Revolution-Stricken H Russia Is Wrecked and Passen- H gers Caught Like Rats In a m Trap. H Chicago. More tlian ono-hnlf the H passengers on nn Immigrant train on H the Itnltlmoro nml Ohio railroad were H fc lllod or Injured In n collision Mon- H day between the passenger train and H u freight near Woodvlllo, Ind. H Ono hundred nml slxty-rivo passen- H cerB wore on tho train, and ot theso H forty-seven were elthor killed out- H right or were burned to death In tho H flro which broke out In tho wreckage H immediately after tho collision. Tho H names or nil of tho dead will probably H never bo known, ob forty-dvo ot tho H bodies woro consumed in tho llnmes H or wero bo badly burned that idontl- H Mention la fmpoBslble. H Thirty-eight peoplo wero Injured, H nnd sevornl or theso will dlo. Klghty H others escaped unhurt, hut lost near- H )y nil their bnggngo nnd clothing. H Tho dlsnHtcr was caused by a blun- H dcr of sonio employo or tho railroad H company, but Just where tho hlnmo Ilea has not as yet been determined H The passenger train, which wns load- H ed with Russian Jows, Servians and H Poles, all or thorn recent nrrlvals In H this country, nnd bound for Chicago H or places In tho northwest, was tho H second section of a through train H from naltlmorc, which collided with Q n freight train, which bad left tho H side track after tho first section h passed and started down tho main H linn at full speed. Tho two trains H came togothor with unslnckoned r speed nnd In tho crash six passcngor H coaches nnd several freight cars wero H i knocked Into kindling wood nnd to- H gethpr with tho locomotives went toll- H Ing down tho ten-foot embankment. |