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Show ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN. Two Boys Place Obstiuctlon on Rock Island Road in Revenge for Being Be-ing Put Off a Train. Trenton. Mo. Mulch 50 Cenrge nusrh, aged lb sears and Heorge Young, iigod :0, sons of icspectablo parents of this cits, made an uiisuc cessful attempt late buturday night tn wreck lasthound Chlengo, Itork Island S. l'aeltlc pnsscliKO! tl 1 1 n No 1.', about llvo miles oust of heie. 'Ihe track nt this point Is on n high embankment and a derailment could scarcely have occurred without tho losa of many lives Itotli boss were arrested and one has confessed Their motive appeal ap-peal a to hive been revenge for having been put off a freight train Dlmo novels ato ulsn believed to have plascd a pnit ilusch find Young had gone lo Princeton, the next town, Snlurdas moi nlng and iciurnlug home tried to steal a ilde ou a freight train. Iho ronduclor put them nit and they walked to within live miles of Trcnlnn. whero several heivy ties weie piled iicinss tho rnlls along which tho pns-sengpi pns-sengpi was due lo pass soon Tor-tunnlels Tor-tunnlels a late freight train pulled by one of the HOO-ton class engines ur-rlved ur-rlved nt the spot a few minutes aheid of the passeugei. 'Ihe weight of the engine md the lill.li rate ot speed ul which Ihe train vmih going pushed the obstruction off tho Iriielc without any d unuge being done. Word was telegraphed tele-graphed ahead to nricst IJuscli and Soung and they vveio tuken as they cnlcied Trenton. |