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Show MET DEATH SINGING HYMN8. 8unday School Children Meet Death In Railway Wreck. Twenty-two members of the Sunday Sun-day school of the Doremus Congregational Congrega-tional church, Chicago, wero killed In a wreck near Chicago, Wednesday evening. Wednesday was tho annunl picnic of the Sunday school, and, as In former years, hundreds of tho children chil-dren with their parents nnd friend had gone to tho picnic grounds at Momence, Ills., for tho day. The picnic pic-nic was over and the train was on tho return to Chicago when tho accident occurred. The children In tho first coach were singing as the train passed through Chicago Heights, twenty-seven miles from Chicago. Two miles further the train went on, and thon tho singing was hushed In death for over a scoro, and cries of pain nnd horror for seventy sev-enty others. A misplaced switch was tho cause of tho terrlblo disaster, tho train going go-ing nt a forty-flvo mllo clip when tho accident occurred. |