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Show EMPLOYEES ON TRIAL FOR MANSLAUGHTER MINEOLA, N. Y., March 11. Fivei-ployees Fivei-ployees of the Brooklyn Rapid Trv company testified ho re ;od;iy at the u of Thomas F. Kiewitt, superintendrRi the company, who is on trial churned manslaughter in connection with ihtlf. bone street wreck last November In w: ninety-eight persona wero killnd, ;, they were drafted to oper.itc imfcr. trains the day of the disamcr, alihu . they never had previous experience .n i work. The company prcstd them ; service, they declared, to tnke th pb . of men who struck that day, The.' ferences between the company and it; ployees were adjusted a few hour a!-the a!-the tragedy. Three of the witnc-Hsen wr-n crew c-catchers, c-catchers, one was a froipht conductor. ; one an instructor of motor-men, A i foreman testified Blewitt lad direr j him to ask his shop workers to uke . I trains in order to maintain the ru in spite of the strike. |