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Show WRECK KILLS ONE H INJURES EIGHT Three Cars of Missouri Pacific Passenger Leave Track at Union, Nebraska. OAIA1TA , Neb., Fob. 1-1. One passenger pas-senger was killed and eight others injured, in-jured, sonio of them seriously, when three coaches of tho Missouri Pacific, -Kansas City passenger train No. 3 01, left the Tails at Union, a small station forty miles south of hero today. A list of Iho casualties follows: Killed. TOM G. BA'RN'UM, stockman, Union, skull fractured against watertank, killed instantly. Injured. Frank Heavriu. teamster. South Omaha, bond hurt find skull fractured above Iho eye. Amos McNainec, rural mail carrier, headquarters at Omaha, head cut, hand, back and leg injured. M. IS. Thomas, agent Twentieth Century Farmur, Omaha, head cut and right forearm fractured. Osio Huston, Plattsmouth, back injured. in-jured. C. Massy, Unadilla, serious cuts and bruises. (!us King. South Omaha, serious cuts. .T. E. Goldsmith, Omaha, head cut and aria hurt, slight. V. .1. V. Ifoc, Omaha, knee and arm hurl, slight. All tho injured persons and Thomas Barnuni, tho dead stockman, woro in tho smoker, which turned on its sido. Tho watertank crushed Bnrnum's skull and ho was dead when found. Amos McNnmce, with whom JSarnum was conversing, con-versing, narrowly escaped a liko fate. Although the weather was intensely cold, tho injured did not suffer greatly, being cared for iu warm coachos, which did not leave tho track. Seven ph-si-ciaus wero hurried to tho scene and cared for tho injured, none of whom, it is beliovod, will die. Tho wreck is said to havo resulted from spreading rails. Tho engine and baggage car passed over tho bud rails hr saleiy. but tho threo coaches following fol-lowing left the track. |