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Show EEfMllEEl, 25 EMI w disastrous collision . : ON TIE .MISSOURI P ACIFIC i " i - Heavy ' Freight Engine Crashes Into Cabeosc Containing Large Number Num-ber of Laborers; Lcoked Like Field cf Battle BUFFALO, Kan., April 27. A northbound north-bound Missouri Pacific stock train crashed into the rear end of a work train Just north of this town at 7 o'clock last evening and eleven men were killed and twenty-five injured, ten of the latter lat-ter seriously and four fatally. All were Greeks except one, Peter Frye, who lived here and who was the boss on the work. The cause of the wreck is given aa misreading of orders. . The work train consisted of flat cars and a caboose, all filled with laborers. The men on the flat cars escaped by Jumping, but hardly a man in the caboose ca-boose escaped. The work train was backing Into town for the night and running at a good speed. The heavy freight engine did not leave the track, but pushed the work train off the track, leaving little of it except the car wheels and kindling wood. , Looked Like a Battlefield. Doctors of Buffalo, assisted by towns- people, did heroic work among the injured in-jured until the wrecking train with surgeons sur-geons arrived from Neodesha and a corps of half a dozen physicians from Coffeyvllle and Independence arrived. The dead and injured were taken to . Coffeyvllle, the latter to be temporarily cared for at the hospital there. The scene of the wreck for several hours looked like a battteT.eld by the dazzling light of the burning debris, with dead men strewn about upon the ground, where they lay after being taken from the wreck. |