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Show SERIOUS WRECK five Persons Killed and then Cremated. Jamestown, X. Y., April 20. A coupling broke on a westbound freight tiain on the Lric road at Redhousc at 4 o'clock this morning, Just as the train was leaving the main track to take a siding for the eastbound New-York New-York and Chicago limited express to pass. The delay occasioned by the mishap was the cause of a fatal accident of a most distressing nature. Almost Immediately after the freight train broke in two the passenger train came along at the rate of fifty miles an hour. The passenger engine, a combination baggage and passenger car, a day coach and two sleepers left the track, running nearly 100 feet beside the rails, crashing into a small school-house, which was completely demolished. The wreck caught lire Immediately and all of tho cars which left the track were quickly burned up. Baggageman Bag-gageman Hotchklss was killed, Ills body being recovered. After the lire live bodies were Immediately Im-mediately taken from the burned cars. Three of them are those of two women and a child, who are said to liae boaided the tialn at Youngstown, O., bound for Olean. They were burned so badly as to make it almost impossible impossi-ble to identify them. The other two have not bcenidentllled. It Is believed that other bodies arc still in the wreckage. |