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Show FIFTY -fl!SS!NG. IN WSECK; f IHY HAW" : BURNED TO DEATH: UNUSUAL WRECKS . CHICAGO, Nov. 12.--At 1 o'clock officials of the Baltimore Bal-timore Ohio announced that they had received positive news from the wreck at "Woodville, and it is known that out of the 135 persons on the train,. forty were killed, thirty-five others injured and sixty escaped oinhurt. ... ' BALTIMORE, Nov. 12. Advices to the Baltimore & Ohio general offices here say only ; one ' imriugrant . was found dead, and, as near as could .be told, about forty,to forty-five were. missing.. They. probably may have scattered scat-tered over .the country, as the entire emigrant train of six cars was burned, as were three cars in the freight train. The fireman of the freight train is dead, and Fireman Cutler Cut-ler of the emigrant train is believed to' be' fatally hurt. Engineers 3Yrennmanl and Burke of the two, trains and Baggagemastef Snyder of the emigrants' train are badly injured, . . - . r, . ... - - ' cleared away the wreckage. The emi- I grants consisted of Bussian' Jews,1 Servians Ser-vians and Poles, and. were n route to the Northwest, VALPARAISO. Ind, Nov. 12. Fifty out of 167 emigrants who were on a Baltimore t Ohio passenger train, which collided head-on with, a freight train this . morning at . Wctodville, . ten miles north of here, are missing and it is believed tJreir bodies were consumed by the fire which destroyed the. era-i era-i grant train. ' ' .t. ; ' . '- j" -The "emigrant train waiTlounoffor Chicsga The.aceident was catted'by the freight crew failing to observe signers' sig-ners' 6n th -first section of the emigrant emi-grant train that another was following. The emigrant train -caught fire and was entirely, consumed.' r.-There were 167 passengers -aboard the. trainand 117-of? them have been accounted ac-counted for. . i' '. " ,' All the injured were taken'to Mercy hospital, Chicago, on ' a special"' -train after' their injuries hard been attended to bv physicians from this city. All of the train crew on both the trains escaped,; exfept the fireman on the eiigrant train, who was, killed. A' wrecking crew from Chicago |