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Show TWO WRICKS ON RAILROADS. A Collision on the Chicago & Northwestern North-western Results Fatally, THREE . MILES WEST OF MAR. SHALLSTOWN, IA., AT NOON. The "Worst Wreck in the State in Many Year3. FOUR MEN STILL BURIED UNDER THE DEBRIS. Several Employes Seriously Injured Physicians Summoned to the Scene of Disaster Another Collision Colli-sion Occurs on the Pennsylvania Railroad Between Two Freight Trains in Xew Jersey. New Bbdjtswick, N. J., Dec. 15. A col-lision col-lision occarredat midnight last night between two freight trains on the Pennsylvania railroad, rail-road, near Plattsborough. About a doicn freight cars were wrecked and the road was blocked about three hours. No one is reported re-ported seriously injured. Marshalltowx, la., Sept. 15. A bad head-end collision occurred at noo n on the Chicago & Northwestern road about three miles west of Marshalltown, between a freight and accommodation train, both , running at a high speed on a curve. Sev- eral train men were seriously injured, some probably fatally. Physicians hastily summoned sum-moned from here have gone to the scene. Particulars are not yet obtainable. Four men are reported under the wreckage, all probably dead. Engineers Ashton and Howes, one fireman and an emigrant whose names were not learned, are dead and still buried under the wreck, and one other fireman is fatally Injured. In-jured. It is the worst wreck known in this part of the state for many years. Both engines are completely demolished and the cers piied into a rigged mass near by twenty feet deep. |