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Show ROCK ISLAND TRAINS CRASH IN COLLISION Dazcn or More Persons la Smoking: Car Injured, but . Nobody Is Killed. sssssssstssssstassBstsssBsssssB. KANSAS ' CITY, March 5. Outgoing Rock Island Texas train No. 23, which left the Union, station, at 10:30 o'clock last night over the Union Pacific tracks, which the Rock Island uses out of here, crashed Into the smoker of 'Rock Island trains Nos. 12 and 23, which were made Into one, but were late, and which were trying to make a siding at the Rock Island Isl-and Junction, Just outside of the Kan- t sas City yards. The smoker was thrown from the track, turned over and smashed Into kindling wood, and the dozen or more persons inside all sustained sus-tained Injuries, but no one was killed. Two other cars immediately after the smoker were derailed, but the sleepers stayed oh the track. The Texas train was on time and running run-ning rapidly and the collision came with terrific force. Some of the people in the derailed coaches were injured, but neither their names nor the extent of their injuries is known. The first news of the wreck was brought by George Jacobs of Boulder Creek, Col., the newsboy of the Colorado train. He was In the smoker and was thrown under the wreckage, but managed man-aged to crawl out and came to the city on the mall car of an incoming 'train. He was badly bruised and has a bad gash over his left cheek, but Is not seriously se-riously Injured. Jacobs, .who came to the city for medical med-ical attention, could give few details of the wreck, but said that It was impossible impos-sible that any of the passengers in the smoker had escaped injury. Wrecking trains were sent from here to the scene of the wreck, and the Injured In-jured passengers and trainmen reached the city at midnight. The wreck occurred oc-curred In Armburdale, two miles west of the river, and was caused by a misunderstanding mis-understanding of orders on the part of Engineer -O'Connor of - the outgoing train. The engine of the Texas train was not injured. None of the passen-gers passen-gers In the sleepers were hurt. |