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Show CRASHED TOCTHEIL TWO TRAINS ON THE HOT SPRINCS ROAD COLLIDE. One Conductor Considerably Shaken X'p and Bruised, but no One Els Injured The Accident due to Carelessness and tha Lack of Precaution. There was a collision on the Hot S'--ings railroad, in the cut near Ninth North street, at ti o'clock last night, in which the conductor conduc-tor of one of the trains received a good shaking up and some slight bruises, but no one else was injured. There were several passengers on each train, and that none of them was hurt was a singular peice of good fortune. The accident could have been avoided had either of the conductors exercised ordinary precautions and been guided by common sense, but as neither of them did, they were tired for their carelessness. The place of meeting and passing of the trains, is at a switch on Superior addition, about 100 yards from where the accident occurred. When the; down train did not find the up train there, the conductor should have waited a few minutes, but as he had the right of w ay he jogged along thinking to rei to the terminus before the up train started. The conductor of the tip train ciaimcd to have been delayed in starting, and when he found he could not reach the passing point on time was running slow. His care in that respect prevented what might have been a very serious catastrophe, and and the two trains ran into each other with no very great violence. The total damage did not exceed |