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Show ' SOLDIERS IN A WRECK. Troops Saiaih.d Tp White natural! From Pins KlUc. Topera, Jan. 87. The particulars of a collision between a passenger train and a special bearing United States troops from l'ine Ridge, whion occurred last evening on the Union Pacillo railroad rail-road at Florence, near Irvine, Kansas, has beou received here. The special train consisted of seven passenger cars and twenty-four freight cars, and had on board 400 soldiers, part of the seventh sev-enth cavalry and a battery of light artillery artil-lery bound for Fort Riley. Many of the soldiers were seriously and at least two fatally injured. The dead so far as can be ascertained are Sergeant Schartbat, artillery K, cut all to peices, Private Neil, troop (J, seventh caalry, left leg cut off and head smashed. None of the passengers on the other train were injured. The brakeman is hurt. The conductor of the military train is held responsible for the accident acci-dent is he was ruuning on express train's time. He has disappeared. A large number of cavalry dorses wero killed. |