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Show HOW ACCIDENT HAPPENED. Claimed Passenger Ignored Orders to Pass Accommodation. PORTLAND, Sept. 23.-A special from' Weiser. Ida, says: A wreck on the Short Line railroad occurred oc-curred early today at Eaton station, about eight miles below Weiser. Tho westbound passenger was running In two sections, having orders to pass the Bolsc-Huntlngton accommodation train, known as tho Cannon Bail, at Eaton station. When tho passenger train arrived at tho Eaton stntion. tho Cannon Ball wns not on tho siding. Instead of waiting, the passenger continued on towards to-wards Huntington, running at a high rate of speed. Didn't Sco Cannon Ball. Tho Cannon Ball saw tho passenger train comlntr nnd strmnirl TT..frlnHv y,n engineer of the passengor did not see the Cannon Ball, which was on a curve, until he was less than ono hundred feet of It, when ho applied the emergency brakes, but too lato to, stop tho train. Crash Was Terrific. It crashed Into tho Cannon Ball with terrific forco, demolishing both engines and throwing them into the ditch, grinding grind-ing the mall car into kindling wood and demolishing four cars of tho Cannon Ball, scattering their contents for fifty feet on each sldo of qic track. Rovolsteadt. fireman of tho passenger, was pinned down by tho engine and it required four or five hours to dig him out Passengers Got Off. The crew and passengers of tho Cannon Ball, who saw the passonger train bearing bear-ing down on them, had gotten off. A passenger, pas-senger, C. M, Harper of Demar, Kan., was thrown through tho window of ono of the coaches and was badly cut about the head and body. An unknown woman had an arm broken and several others wero considerably bruised and shaken. Ran Back to Wcisor. Tho train was run back to Woiscr and tho passengers nro now here. Engineer Laroso will bo taken to a hospital at Boise for treatment It will probably take all night to clear tho debris from tho track In order that trains can pass over tho road. |