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Show THREE TRAINS ROLL DOWN EMBANKMENT YII.l-dSCA. Iowa. Dec. 0. Three trains were d pi ailed and rolled down a 6"- foot enii-ankmeTtt in the Hurlinuion railroad yards here tins afternoon when the airbrakes air-brakes on the fust mf-at train No. 70. eastbound. failed to hold and it ran Into slow freight No. ill' from behind, ..and. with a buckling movement, threw it side-wise side-wise onto fast freiiiht No. 77, westbound, which was .just leaving the station. Hut one man was hurt, a fireman, who bad his hip broken when he jumped. Of the .twenty-three cars in tbe three trains, seventeen rolled down the bank onto the tracks of thp Villisca-Pt. Joseph line below, and three burned on the tracks above. The cars carried meat and mixed merchandise. Had the wreck occurred oc-curred a few yards further west, the cars wou-'d have rolled into the Nodaway river. |