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Show WRECK ON THE O. R. & N. ' NEAR EAST PORTLAND. PORTLAND, Or., Oct t The second of two extra freights on the Oregon Railroad Rail-road A Navigation railroad crashed into the rear end of the first train Just outside the East Portland station in this city early yesterday. Eight cars of the first train, including the caboose, were promiscuously pro-miscuously scattered on both sides of the track for a distance of a hundred yards and the track was torn up for about 2u0 feet. No one' was injured. Passenger trains were delayed for several sev-eral hours and the incoming trains forced to disembark their passengers about a quarter of a mile -east of the station, whence they took street cars to the city. . The two engines of the second section, which was a double-header, had their superstructure destroyed. The cars contained con-tained wheat and land plaster. According to the officials of the- company, com-pany, the accident was caused by the disobedience dis-obedience of the crew of the second train in not reducing their speed to six miles an nour when entering the yards limits. There Is al per cent grade at the point of collision, and when the second train, on rounding a curve, discovered the first train, it was too late to stop. |