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Show ELEVEN MEET DEATH I IH CROSSING HORROR i Freight Train Crashes Into j a Street Car Loaded With i ! . Passengers. j " i ! JIEMPHTS, Tenn., Sept. 17 Eleven ! ! persons are known to have been lulled j and more than fifteen injured early to- night ivheti an Illinois Central freight train crashed into a street ear containing contain-ing about thirty-five passengers near Binghampton, a suburb of Memphis. The wrecked car, a trailer, was hurled over an embankment and the foremost freight cars toppled over on it. Kecovery of the bodies of the victims vic-tims from tho tangled heap ot wreckage wreck-age was attended by gTcat difficulty, but two hours after the tragedy nine dead had beon found and fifteen injured in-jured taken to hospitals. According to an eye-witness the accident ac-cident occurred at a time when two ' freight trains were switching over the j : street railway crossing. The street car j conductor, it is said, gave his motor- j man the signal to go ahead after the first train passed, and the car and its i trailer were passing the cross-over I when struck by the seeond train cbm- ; ing from the opposite direction. The identified dead, all residents of Memphis, are: DR. L. H. PITTMAN, dentist. i I. C. DOUGLAS, aged 43, salesman. j HENRY HODGES, 18, carpenter. i R. A. ROPER. i W. H. OWENS, 25. H. S. PEGG, 22, lineman. ! J. R. BEUGGER, contractor. At midnight a search was being made for several persons unaccounted for. |