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Show TWENTY KILLED IN WRECK. Train Running Fifty Miles an Hour Dashes Into Open Switch. Tho Chicago limited on tho Wabash railroad, duo in St. Louis at 7 p. m., a hnlf-hour Into and running fifty miles an hour, was wrecked Sundny night Insldo tho city limits of Litchflold, Ills. Tho engine ran Into an open switch and struck n freight train on n siding. Tho engine and tho first threo coaches wcro plied in a henp ncross tho track, caught flro and woro consumed. It is bollovcd that twenty persons pcrishod in theso conches and that forty woro Injured. Thrco of tho Injured In-jured hnvo slnca died. Tho last car on tho train, a special from Wisconsin, wns pushed back and saved. Nearly all of tho passengers wcro bound for St. Louis, nnd many of them woro delegates to Uio Democratic Demo-cratic national convention. |