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Show DEATH ON Till- HAIL. Two Hundred Peoplo Zilled or Injured iu the Collision at St, M&nda Yesterday. MANY ABE BURNED TO A CINDER. Masfi of CLarred Litubi and Human Ashes Piled h the Town Hall Othur Accidonts on the Bail. I'ai:is, July 27. It is now reported that 20D peoplo wero killed or injured as the result of the St. Mamie collision yesterday. Many of the unfortunate peoplo imprisoned beneath tho wreck wero drowned by the firemen who poured torrents of water upon the wreck, and seemed to be utterly unaware una-ware that they were drowning the people peo-ple they wore attempting to save. Today the town ball of St. Mamie presents a fearful spectacle. The blackened black-ened bodies lie in rows upon the Door and tables. In somo cases the remains are little more than a heap of cinders inlermived with portions of limbs. One pile of charred limbs and human cinders cin-ders is especially conspicuous, consisting consist-ing of a mass unidentilied aud unconnected uncon-nected bodies placed in a heap. l.i' l'ii,r,s states that the investigation into tho St. Maude accident disclosed the faet that the disaster wim caused hy an unknown miscreant, who deliberately deliber-ately altered tile signals so s to bring tho trains into collision. He will be 1 m hed if caught. Another Ohio Iiitntter. Davton, Ohio, Juiy 27. Tho awful disaster on tho Cincinnati, Hamilton & Daytou excursion at Middletown Saturday Sat-urday night has cast a gloom over this city. Three persons were killed out-nul't: out-nul't: William Matthews, aged IH; Li-dia Li-dia Freer, aged 22, and Frank Simoner. aiied 17. '1 he following are in a critical criti-cal condition: Josepn If. Clvveal.Franit l'atlerson, Jotcph H. Sweverly. The following were seriously, but not it is thought iatally. hurl: Warren Thompson, Thomp-son, Fred Werdner, Mark Kmerick, Ekiih Tuttlo. Kate Schlein, Fdeu M. Keason and wife, Frank Ilelgcr, William Wil-liam Oman, Mary Gram, Annie Ve nard, Samuel Lohi, Charles Myers, Maggio Frost, Ar.tiio Ilrenuan, 1'earl Shorthill, Mary Kesse aud R. S. Tuttle. Abrut twenty more received painful bruises aud cuts. William G. Douglass, one of the committeemen com-mitteemen iu charge of the Cincinnati, Hamilton ov: Dayton excursion to Woodsdale, tells this story of Saturday nigiit'a wreck: "A drawbar about the middle of the excursion train broke, and they stepped at Middleton hulf an hour to patch it up. Ked lights were not promptly placed on lha rear car, aud just as the train was pulling out a heavy freight came iu at Miigh rate of speed. It was too lato ,i stop the freight aud in an instant irtho crash came. The two rear cars of theeexcursion train were hurled into tho ditch. The next, coach was struck fairly in the end and the locomotivo uushimr under, elo- vated it to an angle of torty-tive degrees, de-grees, and there it stood filled with shrieking people. This car caught lire, but Engineer Sehwind and the lireman were aide to axtinguish the blaze by using a hose from the locomotives. Two cars lay crushed in the ditch with a mass of maimed aud mingled people tiioiiuing in agony, pleading for help. Legs, arms aud heads could have been seen through the broken windows, or penned under the wreck. Moans of helpless sufferers, mingick with frantic cries of mothers seeking husbands and children, many of them being by glass and timbers in the rush to escape, and bloody faces ami hands bore ghastly testimony to tho gruat number of iu- jured. |