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Show ALL-STEEL TRAIN LEAVES THE TRACK Two Hundred and Fifty Passengers, However, and Members of Crew Escape Injury. MUSKOGEE, Okla., Jan. 7. Two hundred and fifty passengers on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad's fast tram, the Texas special from St. Louis to Galveston, escaped injury between be-tween Oktaha and Bentiesville Okla., early today when the all-steel train, malting up" lost time, left the rails arm six coaches, stripped of their trucks, plunged into the ditch beside the right of way. Xot a member of the crew nor a passenger was seriously injured, although those in the overturned coaches coach-es were badly frightened and shaken up. The four Pullmans and two combination combina-tion coaches v.-hich were derailed plowed a ditch four feet deep in the roadbed before capsizing and displaced 3000 ties. |