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Show THE REGULAR. Another Railroad Horror Destroying' De-stroying' Human Life. Ten Lives Lost in a Railroad Collision in Naw York State. List of Killed and 'Wounded. Syracuse, N. Y., August ('..This morning a freight train on the West Shore railroad going west, broke in two between Port Byron and Montezuma, Montezu-ma, and the fast train following smashed into, the rear section. Ten Italians en route to Niagara Falls in the smoking car, were killed, and eleven elev-en others in the same car injured, some will probably die. One sleeping car burned and it is supposed nearly-all nearly-all the passengers were rescued. It is thought none of them are bally hurt. The injured were brought here and are being cared for. The t odies of the killed are at Port Byron w here the coroner will hold an inquest. Among the injured was a member of an opera company, who tlted on the way here. The train men say that more were killed in the wreck. Physicians were sent from Syracuse, Auburn, Montezuma aud Port Byron. The scene at the wreck was terrible one. The following is the list of the dead : M ciiitel llergen, fireman of the passenger passen-ger train ; Alphonse Cai ilia, Coco Ilocco; 1 lioma'i Mening, John Ilosio, Veanzo Diiauri, iJoiuiuico lticbone, l)ominico San He, Antonio Scazzatt'ava, Italians; John Brand. ott and an unknown Italian, Ital-ian, who died on the way to Syracuse. Of the eleven Italians injured four will probat'ly die. They were in the smoking car of the St. Louis express, wh ch crashed into the freight train. Twelve cars of the freight train were wrecked and piled up on the tracks, campletely blocking the road. Hardly a w hole piece of timber was left of the smoking car. The wieck took lire and i he passenger car burned with the exception ex-ception of three sleeping cars. The train was made up of two express cars, baggage car and smoking car, a day loach and four sleeping cars. J. J. Suliivan of this city was on the tram: He was in the car behind the .-moker. Regarding the accident he said: "The fraight tiain with which our train colliil d was running on pas-si-nuer train time. When the crash came the scene was a terrible one. The smoking car was smashed to splinters and the shiieks of the wounded im-prisi-ned in the wreckage were heart-rend.ng. heart-rend.ng. The accident occurred at 3 o'clock. When I left the dead and the wounded were scattered aoont on the ground inside of the trucKs and surviving surviv-ing passengers were doing all they could for the relief of the wounded. The v ctima so far as I could see were all men who were in the smoking car. None of the passengers in the sleeping cars were injured," John F. Bovvdish of Boston, who had a narrow escape, gave a similar account of the accident. lie said no one in the rear cars was injured. The attendants of the express and baggage cars had retired re-tired to the rear coaches to catch a little lit-tle sleep and the entire fatality there fore was confined to the occupants of the smoking car and locomotive. Joseph M. Keeshan of St. Louis and Antonio ImbeHo, an Italian, died at tho hosnit-iil in this ritv TIipsp fe-.itlm make the number of fatalities twelve. I Of the injured some others will proba- I bly die. j New Yokk, August 7, The West i Shore oQicial says: "From what can j be learned there is no doubt the acci-j acci-j dent this morning was the result of the neglect of the conductor of the freight train to send back a flagman and warn trains moving on the same Hack. Insane Con vlct.4 at lurip. Auburn", X. Y., August 0. Early this morning seventeen insane convicts con-victs at the state insane asylum overpowered over-powered their keeper, secured his keys i-id escaped. They scattered over the western part of the citv, where great t xeitenient prevailed. Five of the escaped es-caped convicts were recaptured, and a ! 1. rge force of keepers is in pursuit of j ti.e others. Irumbull Files Ills AniWfr. Los Angeles, August G. Richard L. Trumbull to-day tiled an answer to the libel on the arms and ammunitions seized on the steamer ''Itata." Trumbull Trum-bull says he is owner in tiust of the arms and ammunition, and that no one else has anything to do with them. Judge Hoss is" absent on his vacation, but on his return an effort will be made to at once push the litigation to a conclusion. National l!r Association. Boston. August 6. The annual i meeting of the national bar associa-J tion was held here to-day. The report of the committee recommending the formation o an international bar association asso-ciation was adopted and steps will be taken to organize such a society at once and hold the first meeting at the World's Fair. Gen. Harrnntlia's Fnmlly fiets 1580. OOO St, Louis, Autrust O.t A dispatch from the City of Mexico says that the family of ihe uutortunate General Bar-rund Bar-rund a, who was killed in a Pacific mail ship in the port of San Jose, have won their chiims against the United St ates and will be paid SSO, 000 indem-1 indem-1 lieu tion. |