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Show TV70 LOCOIiOTIVES BADLY WRECKED RocK Island Train Runs Into Open Switch in OKla-homa; OKla-homa; Two Killed, One Badly Injured. . OKLAHOMA CITT, Okla., March 29. Rock Ieland paasenger train No. 1, drawn by two engines, ran Into an open a witch at Council, eight miles west of this. city, at 5 o'clock this morning, wrecking both engines and the mall and baggage car and killing one engineer and an unidentified unidenti-fied negro, and fatally Injuring one fireman. fire-man. One of the engine took the switch, the other the main track. Both were thrown into the ditch and badly wrecked. The mall and baggage cars turned over, but the remaining coaches remained on the track, the passengers being badly shaken up. seven of them suffering from severe bruises. The engine crews Jumped and 'saved themselves with the exception- of John McCarthy of Shawnee, who was caught In the wreckage and instantly killed, and Fireman John Overton, who is so badly scalded that he Is now In a dying condl-. tion. James Walker, porter, was seriously serious-ly Injured. The unidentified negro was stealing a ride upon the "blind" baggage and is still pinned under the wreckage. A relief train left this city Immediately and returned at 8 o'clock. |