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Show NINE KILLED IN A WRECK Two Fast Santa Fe Passenger Pas-senger Trains .Collide in Kansas. PAOLA. Kan., June 5. Two Santa Fe trains, collided head on one mile north of Stilwell, Ran. Nine persons are dead, six seriously and about twenty slightly injured. The trains were running over the Missouri Mis-souri Pacific tracks, owing to the flooded condition of its own track. Both trains were In charge of pilots and It is said that one of the pilots misread his orders, causing caus-ing the accident. I The trains that collided were the third : sretion of No. i, northbound from Callfor-' Callfor-' nia to Chicago, and No. 1, southbound, the California limited. Each train consisted of nine cant The baggage .cars and -the smoker of each train was completely demolished. The .Pullmans and the chair cars kept the track. The- killed, with the exception of two tramps on the bumpers of a baggage oar. were occupants of a chair' car on the aoutbbouol trsi |