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Show FEARFUL 'RAILROAD DISASTER Crew Failed to Observe Stop Signals an'd Many Are Killed. Porter, 'Ind. Tweuty-soven persons nre known to bo dead aind moro thnn 100 were Injured In the wreck of two. passenger trains here Sunday night, when u westbound New York Central train, No. 131, known as tho Interstate Express, crashed Into a derailed east-bound east-bound Michigan Central train, No. 20, known ns "Tho Canadian," hero In what railroad officials termed ono of tho most disastrous wrecks in recent years. Tho accident wns caused, according to railway officials, when tho Michigan Michi-gan Central engine crew failed to oh-servo oh-servo stop signals nt tho Intersection of tho two roads, and was thrown onto tho Now York Central tracks from tho derail switch. |