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Show COLLIDED ON A CURVE. Ml'tako In Train Order Canst a Terrible Wreck. New York, Jan. 11. By a hcadon collision between two passenger trains of tho Lehigh Valley railroad nt West Dunellen, N. J., thirteen persons wcro killed nnd over twenty-live wounded. West Dunellen is thrco miles from Bound Brook nnd about thirty miles from New York City. At tho .spot whero tho disaster occurred thero Is a sharp curvo in the Lehigh Valley track nnd a deep cut. It was n local train nnd an excursion trnln that collided. The two engines, from which both crews had jumped, came together with an awful crash. Tho excursion train was probably going at about fifteen miles an hour. Tho local engine, as If tripped in Its faster lllght, turned n cotnnlcto somersault nnd camo crashing down beside Its now demolished obstruction. ob-struction. But Its career was uot ended end-ed before It hnd jammed tho tender of tlio excursion train nlmost from ono end to tho other of tho first car from Shamokln. Tho tender slopped a few scats from tho rear door. Tho car, or what was left of It, rolled over, carrying carry-ing with It tho Imbedded tender, tho fragments of n dozen bodies nnd tho Imprisoned wounded, who had been carried with tho Jagged Iron on Its relentless courso through tho coach. It Is claimed that tho operator had given orders which causod tho trains to collide, and that no blaroo Is attached attach-ed to tho train crews. |