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Show ONE OKI'S DEATH TOLL US RESULT Of WRECKS Nine Are Kl'led ?v.i Tour Qadly Hurt In Wyoming, While Elsvin Are Killed and a Score Injuied in Loulciana, Cheyenne, Wyo. As a result of tho collision of two freight trains near llorle, eleven miles west or here, nluo persons are dead and four severely Injured. In-jured. The dead: J. C. Schley, freight en. glnccr; Martin Cluistensen, fireman; John Murphy, conductor; Clarenco Stltt, brakomnn; C. W. Rodgcrs, brake man; J. C. Duncan, brakeman; thrco Japanese laborers of the work train. Tho collision was caiiBcd hy a freight train going east down Sherman hill losing control of Its air and running run-ning wild. Tho train was going seventy sev-enty miles an hour when the crash tamo, which piled thirty-one freight cars In a mass, the cars catching Hro and rt scene of tenor ensuing. A chemical engine sent out from Cheyenne fought tho fire, but It could only keep tho (lames from the engine. The bodies of seven have been recov-ered recov-ered from tho wreck and brought to Cheyenne nnd placed In n morgue. Eleven Dead and Score Injured. New Orleans. Klevon persons aro known to bo dead and n score or more are Injured as a result of a wreck Wednesday morning on the New Or-leans Or-leans & Northeastern railroad at Little Lit-tle Woods, twelve miles from New Oilcans. Uetwecn Slldoll and Now Orleans Or-leans the tracks of the New Orleans & Northeastern are used by the Great Northern, and it was a suburban train of this road from Covington that crashed Into tho rear of a local Northeastern North-eastern tra.n from llntttcsburg, Miss., telescoping the four rear coaches. |