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Show iIET DEATH III 1 ROlNCjlMS I Blunder 'Of Railway Employe Wu Sends Scores of Immi- mm grants to Death. Mj Hol Passenger Train Loaded With Refu- SJ gees From Revolution-Stricken -J&B1 Russia Is Wrecked and Patten- 7HJ gers Caught Like Rats In a mS Trap. M V) Chicago. More than ono-half tho KJ passengers on r.n Immigrant train on B! tho Baltimore and Ohio railroad woro V killed or Injured In n collision Mon- W day between tho passenger train and Ad a freight near Woodvlllo, Intl. HI Ono hundred nnd slxty-Ilvo passon; Hi gers wero on tho train, nnd of thoso S9 forty-soven were either killed out- jHJ right or wero burned to death In tho 1H flro which broke out In tho wrcckngo HJ Immediately after tho collision. Tho HJ names of all of iho dead will probably JHJ never bo known, as forty-flvo or the pB bodies wero consumed In tho flainca HJ or wero so badly burned that Idcntl- BJ flcntlon Is Impossible. SB Thirty-eight people- wero Injured, HJ nnd sovcrnl of them) will dlo. Eighty HE? others escaped unhurt, hut lost near- HI ly nil their baggage nnd clothing. HJ' Tho dlsnstcr wns caused by n blun- ju dor ot somo employe or tho railroad HR company, but Just whoro tho blnmo 'Hli lies has not ns yet been determined. Hk Tho pnssnngur train, which wns load- HJ cd with lltisslan Jows, Servians and HJ Poles, nil ot thorn recent arrivals In Hf thla country, nnd bound ror Chicago HJ or plnccs In thn northwest, wns tho HE second section nt n through train HJ rrom llnltlmore, which collided with HJ n freight train, which hnd left tho HJ sldo trnck after tho first section HJ passed nnd started down tho rnnln BJ lino Jt full speed. Tho two trnlim IK enmo together with unslnckcned HJ speed nnd In tho crash nix passenger conches mid sovcrnl freight earn woro Mj knocked Into kindling wood nnd to- MJ KCthoi wllli tho locomollvos went roll- AM lug d) wn tho ten-foot embankment. M |