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Show - J..-:-u...i:i,Ji!;:iIkLt;I)-V;. ITAITA::, X. S., April 13. Four per- i ! : : 1, two fatally hurt, at least r- r ' :-z and several others slightly I rel, I j the record of a head-on colll-f colll-f 1 cn the Inter-Colonial . railway, -1 occurred Just before midnight r .-';y near Windsor Junction, ser-e-?.i rr.lles from Halifax. t:?.:-s in collision were the Cana-- 3-1 I'acl.fc railway express from Montr' Mon-tr' 1 ar 1 Eoston for Halifax and a fast fr ht from Halifax for Montreal. The cr . -t;r and driver of the freight had orders to take the siding at Windsor ; Junction and let the express cross, but for some unknown reason Driver Cope- land of the freight ran past the June-I June-I tlon on the main line and met the ex-' ex-' press two miles beyond. It Js thought that Copeland may have lost control of his train,. which was made up of seventy-five cars. The freight was running twenty-five miles an hour and the express, ex-press, which was two hours late, was traveling about . forty-flve mllea i an hour. Both trains were hauled by new and powerful locomotives and they crashed together on a level piece of road skirting skirt-ing a lake. The engine crew of the express ex-press and Fireman Hill of the freight died almost immediately . after the crash and Brakeman Thorp was instantly in-stantly killed. The locomotives locked together and remained on the track. The postal and baggage cars went over the embankment, down Into the lake. Two railroad mall clerks in the postal car were shaken up. Their car landed right side up and began to fill with water, but they escaped by climbing through the window. . Driver Wall of the express was caught in the mass of twisted Iron and was 1 scalded to death by escaping steam. Fireman Oakley was thrown or Jumped from the cab and was drowned in the lake, where his body was found in six feet of water. Fireman Hull was burned to death. Another brakeman of the freight train is missing, and the lake Is being dragged for his body. |