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Show TRAIN PLUNGED INTO RIVER. Six Lives Lost and Thirty-six Persons Injured in Wreck. Kansas City. Six lives lost and thirty-six persons injured, three perhaps per-haps fatally, is the result of the wreck of Wabash passenger train No. 4, when it plunged into the Missouri river, thirty miles east of here, Saturday Sat-urday night. At the scene of the wreck the river makes a bend and the railroad follows it. For days the flood waters have been undermining the roadbed, making mak-ing it too weak to hold up the heavy trains. Three hours before the wreck a freight train of forty-five loaded cars passed the point safely. Three hours later No. 4 started across the same bit of track. Fifty feet of the roadbed road-bed suddenly collapsed, and the engine and cars piled one upon the other in the water. |