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Show i SERIOUS WRECK . ON SANTA FELINE B - ' ''4 4- H . I ' H , THE DEAD. -f H ' - j W, .7. "WARD, section fore- I ' -man. H l MRS. W. J. WARD, his H 4- wife. 4- j GEORGE CROWBLL, assist- j -f ant section foreman. -f H I ', H ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., March 13 H f Three are dead, five missing and a H score or marc injured aa a result of H a rear-end collision this afternoon H 'between a westbound extra freight H and a work train on the Santa Pc coast line at McCartys, N. M., sixty miles west of here. Kivc laborers are missing and their bodies are believed to be burled in the wreckage. Tho wreck occurred on a sharp curve a mile west of McCartys in a blinding blind-ing snowstorm which obscured the view of the engineer of the extra freight train Tho work train was standing on the main line, and because be-cause of tho storm, all the laborers were aboard at the time of the accident. ac-cident. Those killed were eating diu-ner diu-ner in the rear car of the work train Though Section Foreman Ward, his wife and the assistant section foreman fore-man wore killed outright, the five children of the Wards, in the same car, woro tossed a hundred foct into a field nearby, all being injurod seriously. ser-iously. A score of Mexican laborers in the bunk cars were burled In the wreckage. wreck-age. A special train brought tho dead and injured, numbering twenty, to this city tonight |