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Show INTO TIIEJM Mill An Express Train Plunges Into the Kay , iug Waters and Five Faesetigers Aro Killed. 0TEEU3 EE2I0USLY IN J PEED, The Disaster Causad by Havy Kaini - Other Disasters from Every Eeo-tiou Eeo-tiou of the Country. Boone, Iowa.June 17. Tho Chicago. Milwaukee & .St. 1'aul express train, going ea,t, plunged into Cook river last, night in a storm, killing tivo or six pur sous, fatally injuring three ami seriously ser-iously wounding from twelre to fifteen. fif-teen. The disaster was caused by the heavy rains undermining tho approach to tho bridge. Tho train consisted f au engine anil seven cars, all of which,, went into tho river except two of tha sleepers iu tho rear. Tbo engineer ot the. train was killed, No deliuito par.,' ticulars ran be procured, and tbo rail-, road people are reticout about tho. affair. Later advices from tho scene of the wreck on tho St. 1'aul railway at Coon) Kapids, Iowa, state but one lifo was lost outright, ono victim will probably dio, and tweuty-one aro injured, aomo, of them seerely. Among tbo injured' ore William Lougendorfer.Watsonville,, Cala., and M. Bust, of lioulder, Colo, j The express iiiesseurcr. Addroidt. ia missing. Tho bridge is a total wreck, and It' will bo impassiblo for at least twelve, hours. Superintendent Goodnow arrived ar-rived at daybreak from Omaha, and if doing all in bis power to care for tho wounded. Physicians are on tho ground busy caring for the injured, preparator' to semilog thcui to their homes. |