Show fIRE FOllOWS COLLISION Terrible Accident on the Katy Line in Which Several Lives Are Lost Muskogee I T May lay 13 Southbound Missouri Kansas I ansas Texas passenger train No 5 ii known as the Flyer FIer which left St Louis I last night for tor Texas points collided headon near Muskogee at noon today with a freight train Several cars were badly badh wrecked and caught fire Six or seven persons pers ns are reported killed and several others injured The Dead Engineer Hotchkiss Parsons Ian Han Dudle West Yest Parsons Kan Han express messenger on flyer James Lanahan Parsons Kan Han freight engineer Two express messengers names un unknown unknown unknown known The injured Include two mall maIL clerks and arid several se ral passengers among among them Samuel of Muskogee The mail clerks were seriously hurt but it Is believed none of or the passengers were dangerously injured Trains Met on a Hill Hili The Time passenger train left Kansas City CIt thirty minutes late and met the freight t train on a 1 hill bill two miles north of here Four passenger coaches and several freight cars were demolished The four fo r coaches caught fire and burned being b practically destroyed Engineer Hotchkis vho was killed outright was one of the engineers engineer on the road was in the thes smoker and nd was thrown through a window He lie sustained only slight hurt 0 U |