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Show FAST MJULWREGKED SIX COACHES OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC PA-CIFIC TRAIN WRECKED BY BROKEN RAIL. Fifteen Persons Are Injured, Two of Whom Are Probably Fatally Hurt, and That All Were Not Killed Is Regarded cis a Marvel. Elko, Nevada. fifteen persons were injured in a wreck on the Southern Pacific near Palisade, this state, Monday Mon-day night. One man and two women probably are fatally hurt, while twelve others were slightly injured. The wrecked train was No. 10, eastbound, known as the China-Japan fast mail, and six cars left the track, three of which were hurled down the embankment. embank-ment. Two alighted on their side while the third, a tourist, rests upon Its top. Physicians and nurses were rushed to Palisade and the mjurea were brought to the company hospital at Elko. The cause of the wreck was a broken rail. Four hundred feet of track was torn up. That fifty or sixty persons were not instantly killed is a marvel, say railroad rail-road officials. |