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Show RAILWAY CARS CAUGHT FIRE. Terrible Disaster Caused by Spreading Spread-ing Ralls. Trenton, Mo. Three people, two of them women, were killed and forty-three forty-three were Injured, three seriously, when Rock Island passenger train No. 3, the California special, westbound west-bound from Chicago, was wrecked two miles south of here at 8:30 o'clock Friday morning. The cause of the wreck Is unknown, un-known, although It Is believed to have been caused by spreading rails. While the train was running at a high speed, the engine and tender left the track and plunged over a five-foot embankment. em-bankment. They were followed by two baggage cars, a mail car, a tourist and a Pullman sleeper. Of the entire train only a sleeper and observation car remained on the track. The cars caught fire and a number of the injured in-jured are suffering from burns. |