Show ROCK ISLAND RAILROAD WRECK two killed and more than thirty in aured in collision between passenger and runaway freight train princston Prin coton ills sept 7 the kansas city fast passenger train on the chicago rock island and pacific railroad wag wrecked one halt mile cast of tonight and more than thirty persona were badly injured two of whom have since died others are penned under the pase enfer coaches and as yet have not been rescued DEAD man supposed to be named donaldson chicago unidentified italian unidentified man about 35 years old all passengers SERIOUSLY INJURED mcglure chicago tho wreck ans caused by a peculiar accident shortly before the time for boand pai train to arrive at an cast bound freight train broke in two running at a high rate 0 speed the two sections almost immediately came togher with great force up several box cars on the westbound track almost directly in front of the fast passenger train the engineer of tho latter was unable to stop and the passenger train hit the wreckage while going at an estimated speed of 60 miles an hour the passenger train collided with the rear end of a freight train that bad broken in two the engineer escaped injury but the fireman was seriously hurt halt a dozen passenger cars wrecked and the passengers thrown in every direction eight landing in a cornfield at one side of tho track many of the injured have been taken to and others to the hospital at la salle physicians and have been summoned from many of the surrounding towns the full extent of the disaster will not be known for several |