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Show ENGINE PLUNGED INTO THE RIVER Train Wreck in Missouri as Result of Engine Leaving the Track' While Rounding a Curve. Engineer and Fireman Killed, While Thirty-six Passengers Are Injured, In-jured, Having Marvelous Escape From Death. Carthago, Mo. A SL Louis & San Francisco passenger train was de railed Thursday morning nt n curve closo to Spring Creek, nbout a mile and a half west of Carthago. Tho on-glno on-glno nnd the baggago car wont lute tho river and all of tho othor cars left the track nnd turned ovor. Low DIood, tho engineer, nnd Harry Ger-rouse, Ger-rouse, tho flremnn, wero plnnod under tho wrecked engine In tho stronmnnd Instantly killed. Thirty-six were Injured. Only ono of these, It Is believed, will dlo. The hurts of tho others consist of cuts nnd bruises. Something went wrong with tho engine when n sharp curvo was reached nnd tho engine darted off tht track, carrying the baggago car with It Into the river down a fifty-foot em bnnkment. All the other cars loft tho rails, but remained on tljo roadway. Tho engine turned ovor twlco before It mndo Its plungo Into tho stream. Tho smoker and tho day coach also. turned a couple of somersaults bofor they landed fifteen feet from tho tracks nnd beenme stntlonary. Tho sleeper turned over on Its sldo. Uninjured men from tho chair car broke open tho Bide door of tho baggage bag-gage car nnd dragged out tho lia-i-gagemau, II. E. Miller of Monctt. lie had been crushed by trunks. When the rescuers mndo a search of the day coach anil chair ear they found those most seriously Injured In a heap at one end of each car. Those In the chair car wero jammed together, a stove nnd othor furniture holding them fast. |