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Show A MIRACULOUS LSCAI'i:. A Horse Car FilIol with I'assengers Kollcri Over by a Sn itcli Kiiijine. CniCAGO, Nov. "7. Thirteen horse-car passengers pas-sengers and a hot stove rolled head over heels in front of a switching engine yesterday yester-day afternoon and, though the cur was reduced re-duced almost to kindling and took tire from the . etovc, the people escaped with their lives. The accident occurred nt A-hiand avenue and Fortieth street. The engine, which was at a standstill, suddenly started, jvist as the car was in front of it. The car was sent sliding slong the rails and turned over and over again, while the people scrambled out the best they could through the doors and windows, burned by the stove and live coals and cut by splintered glass, but miraculously escaped, having no bones broken. It is said that the engineer and lire-man lire-man were under the influence of liquor, but they are not yet arrested. |