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Show WENT OVEt i EBAIH! Bad I reck Occurs m ' Rock IslST Seven Persons Are Injured, Several of Them Seriously. Engine and Four Cars Leave the Bails and Are Destroyed or Badly Damaged. DES MOINES, la., March 21. The Rocky Mountain Limited, westbound, on the Rock Island railroad, was wrecked near Homestead, la., early today, to-day, and seven persons were Injured. According to the railway officials the wreck was caused by train wreckers, who escaped ln the darkness. Soriously Injured. MRS. L. CROSSWH1TE, Sergeant. Colo., cut and bruised. C. J, POM"EROY. mall clerk, Newton, New-ton, Kan., head cut. A. C. HOTCHKISS. engineer, Rock Island, 111., hands and feet scalded. WILLIAM SMITH, fireman, Rock Island, 111., head and shoulders bruised. TV. H. 'VALLOCK, porter, Chicago, hjad cut. L. A. WEBBER, mail clerk, Council Bluffs, la., head cut. The wreck occurred on a high embankment em-bankment where the roadbed had been made soft by recent heavy rains. The roadmaster reported the wreck to 1 he Chicago headquarters ln the fol-Jowl.ng fol-Jowl.ng message: "The wreck was caused by an unknown un-known party removing- spikes, bars and ingle bars, and misplacing the rail. Spikes were removed from two rails. Th engine and first four ears were thrown down a forty-five foot embankment. em-bankment. The engine was completely atrlpped, the mall car destroyed, tho buffet car on Its side and two sleepers sleep-ers badly damaged." |