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Show TRAMP KILLED IN ROCK ISLAND WRECK COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.. Aug. !l On man. stealing a ride, was fatally la Jured and several passengers were shsl- en up when the Rocky Mountain Limited on the Chicago. Rock Island fscinc railroad, goto: forty-five miles aa hour, ran Into an open switch at Flagler. Colo., at 10 o'clock Sunday. The limited crashed Into a train of freight cars, telescoping tele-scoping two of th latter snd wrecking both engines of the limited. B. . Hackney Hack-ney of Greenbrier. Tenn.. was caught between be-tween the tender and steel msll car. and crushed so badlv that he d:1. M. W. Purcell. assistant district attorney at Colorado Springs, and General Bulkley Wells of Denver were among the aasiea- The engineer on the head engine threw on 'he emergency brakes snd the crew of both locomotives stuck ta their Boats. |