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Show TWENTY-E1QHT KILLED. Horrible Railway Disaster Occur Near Warrensburg, Mo. Twenty-eight persons were killed and sixty Injured, some of them fatally, fa-tally, In a head-on collision Monday, two miles southeast of Warrensburg, Mo., between tho second section of Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 30, which left Wichita, Kan., Sunday-night Sunday-night for St. Louis with World's Fair excursionists, nnd tho heavy westbound west-bound extra freight train. The collision collis-ion occurred In what Is called "Doad man's bond." Uoth engineers and both firemen saw the danger and Jumped. According to tho Kansas City ofllco of the Missouri Pacific the engineer of the freight had forgotten his orders. Ho had been ordered to wait on a siding at Knohnoster, Just enst of War- POSITION OF THE ARMIES. )J ' TiniHOEigPJai i&IAOYAIVG nmnMC fY1 V fiAN ROAD- renshurg, but neglected to do so. Tho trains met at a sharp curve. Tho most of tho killed were In the forward coach, which was well crowded wtlh passengers. The spot where the wreck occurred was in a narrow cut and this fact with the darkness dark-ness ndded to the dllllculty of the situation. sit-uation. Tho greatest confusion ensued en-sued after tho first lull following tho crash and tho groans of the Injured wero ndded to the escaping steam of tho wrecked locomotives. It waB some time before tho dead and Injured could bo extricated from tho debris. The dead were carried up tho track an laid In rows In an open spaco until tho relief train arrived, while tho Injured were cared for as well as could be. |