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Show :FGUn.- iilAIt-GLES2S;DUIiUEI TC.-BEATG; : ; Fast Train Carrying Prcm-: Prcm-: incnt Educators Col-lides Col-lides With Freight and Is Wrecked in Ohio. .' ' -, i : CLEVELAND, Q., Feb. 24. As the result of a head-on collision between a ' wostbound passenger train and an east-y east-y i bound freight train, a mile or so eaet of i - Berea on the Big Four railroad, last - night, four mall' clerks were burned to death and several trainmen were more or lees seriously hurt. The dead: "T W. H. Blackwell, head lerk. Cleveland. Cleve-land. . E. TV. Kriesmann. Cleveland. . T. W. Smiley. Cleveland. ' , L. M. Walworth, Cleveland. . - The fourth victim was not killed outfight,' out-fight,' but was no badly burned that he died within a short time. He was un- able to make any statement, and bad ; life enough only to give his name. Expressman Saved.' ' The injured are: John Ferguson, engineer en-gineer of the passenger train; Joe Coulter, Coul-ter, express messenger, who was pinned between express matter in car and was j saved from being burned to death by passengers of ' the train extinguishing the flames that were rapidly approaching approach-ing him; two firemen, names not yet learned. -1 AH the injured were in a hospital in Cleveland. It Is reported that no passengers pas-sengers were hurt. Teachers on Board, The passenger train was quite heavily heav-ily peopled, and many of the passengers passen-gers were school superintendents and teachers, on their way to Cincinnati to attend a meeting of school directors ; and teachers In that city. The unfortunate mail clerks were . caught like rats in a trap within their car, which immediately caught fire, and being locked in were unable to release re-lease themselves. i Work of Rescue. ' ' . The scene of the wreck is but a few miles west of the city of Cleveland and relief was started out immediately on hearing of the wreck from this city. ' The injuries to the train crews consisted con-sisted mostly of cuts and bruises, and are not considered1 serious. All but two 'of the cars of the passenger train were destroyed by fire, which was probably , caused from the overturning and explosion ex-plosion of oil lamps in the express and ' . mall car. |