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Show MANY KILLED I IN TRAIN WRECK I Texas Limited Crashes Through Bridge Near Lebanon, Mis- 1 souri, in Early 1 Morning. I Lines Down, Heavy Rains Cause Stream to Rise and j Weaken Structure. Springfield, Mo, Sept. 16. Be-tween Be-tween thlrt y-f i e and forty-five persons per-sons were killed and a score of others oth-ers Injured early today when the lo comotive, baggage car and forward J chair car of St Louis and San Fran-Cisco Fran-Cisco train No. 6 plunged through a trestle over Brush Creek, near Lebanon. Le-banon. Mo , and were submerged in the swollen stream. tfost of the dead were drowned m the chair car and a great number ot these were women and children H Those who were able to escape from j their watery prison fought their way j out by breaking windows and swim ming to shore. It is estimated there were Sixty-five passengers In the i hair car Owing to poor communication communi-cation with the scene of the wreck it is impossible to give a definite estimate es-timate of how many escaped. None of the sleeping cars left the track and the passengers in these quickly formed themselves into rescue par- Man Loses Whole Family One man In the chair car lost his wife and five children. When the accident occurred he was thrown clear of the descending chair car and swam to shore. In the submerged car his wife and children met their deaths, while he stood nearby unable to save them. Heavy rains last week caused all the small streams In the vicinity to rise. The train was late because of the flooded conditions. As it passed Lebanon, according to reports reaching reach-ing here. Its speed was increased to make up lost time Railroad officials announced the in. j UI d would be brought to Sprimfleld this afternoon. The dead are being placed in hastily arranged morgues at Lebanon St. Louis, Mo. Sept 16. Thirty five or forty are estimated to be dead In the Frisco wreck near Le banon, Mo. Two cars went into a j gully and are submerged Both CMS H m re well tilled with passengers. Four cars and the locomotive were overturned into the gully, swollen to the temporary lake, which runs beside be-side the track. The chair and the smoker were submerged At 9:30 :iorntng seven bodies had been taki i from the chair car but it Is thought that every person in the two cars was drowned This estimate tased on statements of trainmen as to the number of passengers In the cars. From reports thus far obtained U appears that the locomotive plunged off the track Into the gull), dragging along a mail car. a baggage car, the smoker and a chair car. Four sleeping sleep-ing cars did not leave the track. Most of those caught in the wreck were In the chair car. The train was passing over a Ires tie when it left the track The bridge was intact, but a tew yards beyond the bridge the track had been washed wash-ed awav bv water from the gully. The names of the Identified dead were given out at the 'Frisco offices here today as follows: Names of Dead. HENRI WAGONER. Harrison. Ark. MRS ELIZABETH ROSTETEK. Alliance. Ohio. W H CHILDERS, Billings. Mo JOHN MEYERS. WIFE AND DAUGHTER, Thayer. Mo. I VERNON IND ELSIE CALVIN, 1 Rumler Ark H DAISY PERRY. j Bj noon twenty-six bodies bad been recovered. Vhe engineer, describing his experl encefl, said the train was running slowly whon the cloudburst occurred A wall of water swept across the track and appeared to be rushing to-waflds to-waflds the train. The engineer clos ed (he throttle, but Just then the em-bankment em-bankment beneath gave way. |