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Show WRECK IN OLD MEXICO Eight Lives Lost and Pro- j bably Forty Others1 Severely Injured. . j MEXICO CITT, . April 30. North bound fast passenger train No. 1 on the Mexican Central, which left this t-ity Monday night, about four kilometers north of Sacrates Jumped the track, the 'wreck resulting in the death of eight persons and the In-Jury In-Jury of thirty-five or forty others. The train was bowling along at a high rate of speed when a defective rail precipitated ths locomotive, the express and baggage cars, the first, second and third-class coaches, down an embank-ment, embank-ment, totally demolishing them. The two Pullmans were the only cars j whlch'dld not leave the track and those yond a severe shaking up. II' U Impossible to secure a list Of the dead, but It is understood that among them are the Mexican fireman and the expressman and the engineer, Americans, |