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Show I AWFUL WRECK I IN LINN I Engineer, Fireman and Nine Tramps Killed and Bodies Burned to Allies. Engine Jumped the Track, nnd the Entire Train, Excepting One Car and Caboose, Went Up In a Heap Forty Feet High. Missoula, Mont. A gpcclnl cast-bound cast-bound freight train, consisting of forty-one cars of lumber nnd a ca-boose, ca-boose, wnn wrecked near Held station, about ten mllcR west of here, nt G o'clock Sunday morning. At least cloven Uvea wore lost. About a mllo from tlio O'Kccfc trcs-Ue, trcs-Ue, on n steep mountain grade, an tho train was running at a tcrrlllc speed along tho sldo of a hill, tho englno went off tho track, and tlio entire train, excepting ono car and tho ca-booso, ca-booso, wnn piled up In a heap fort foot high. Shortly afterward II ro broko out, and tho cntlro train was soon nblazo. A wrecking train was sent out from here, but owing to tho Intcnso heat of tho burning lumber It was Imposslbla to get near tho wreck. Engineer L. D. Btcrno nnd Fireman Ed Juliette- wero Incinerated. Ilrakcmnn 0. A. Murphy, who was dangerously Injured, was brought to this city. His skull was badly crushed and sovcral ribs wero fractured. It Is thought ho also sus-talned sus-talned Internal Injuries. According to Conductor (larbcr, thoro wero at least Iwolvo tramps on board tho Ill-fated train, only thrca of whom havo been found. |