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Show ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH. And An Express Dashes Into a Freight With Fatal Results. Bells Are Ringing, For Gladstone's Daughter Is n Bride To-Day. Re Noses and Tingling Ears in Chicago - This Jtfornlag. Fatal Railroad Collision in Vlr- Staunton, .Va., February 2. A disastrous collision occurred on the.Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad here at 1. o'clock this morning. The night express ran into the freight train on a siding and v . ' . v . . , ! COSTPLETELi WBBCKXD BOTH ENGINES, Fireman Gittingsof Eichmond, was killed, his bodybeing terribly-scalded and muti- lated.- -E. Lowry, engineer, - had, hia throat out and hia arm scalded. ' Hia condition' is dangerous. '.-Charles Sm&ils, engineer of the freight train, had his back- badly sprained and his body bruised. The only passenger hurt was Dr. Lafferty. of Eichmond, who was-standing in a sleeping car and was knooked down and bruised, but not seriously. serious-ly. The accident was CAUSED BT CHIMIN AL NEGLIGENCE. The freight train was on the side track waiting wait-ing the arrival of the express. The conductor conduct-or told the brakeman, Samuel Vie, that when the express passed he should turn the switch. Vie went to sleep and was aroused by the passing freight train. HE CHANGED THE SWITCH Just as the express came insight, and before the fatal error was discovered the train dashed on - the siding and the - engines locked, the two boilers being jammed together. |