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Show Student's Error Cost toy Lives Detroit, Mich., April 15 Tho death list duo to the collision of a Detroit Toledo & Ironton freight train and a crowded streot car horo last night was increased to IB, 11 omcn and 4 men, today, when one of the Injured Injur-ed vfomon died In th0 hospital where nforohan, a scorojpf tho wreck victims vic-tims woro tukTen'"7riitfr Recovery of nt loast throe others of tho Injured was considered Improbable. Charles S. Cunlngham, state railroad rail-road commissioner, has begun an Investigation In-vestigation of the accident ln behalf of the state. Thrco ot tho doad were Identified during tho dny as Elizabeth Oawnr-zyskl, Oawnr-zyskl, Valeria Catus and Vcrnlka Carueha, but at noon thero wero still tho bodies of five women whose names had not been learned. To tho lnexperlonco of a student motorman Is charged tho death ot fifteen persons, ten of whom woro women wo-men who were kilted last night In a collision between a street car nnd a frolght train on -the tracks of the Detroit. Toledo & Ironton railroad In tho western end of this city. According Ac-cording to tho police tho unexplained ' Inactivity of tho student's Instructor also contributed to tho 'disaster. Twenty-eight other persons were In- I Jured, four ot them seriously. Early H today only soven of tho dead had I been Identified. H With a heavy load ot passengers I homoward bound, tho car, handled by H Student Motorman J. O. Wcstovcr, I halted as it reached tho railway I crossing. Tho conductor ran ahead I and seeing a string of freight ears I pushed by a Bwltch engine npproach- B lng tho Intersection, signalled the B motorman to wait until it had passed B Tho novlco misunderstood tho slg- B nnl and turned on tho power. Tho B car started down tho slight Incline fl leading to tho railway tracks. When B too lato tho motorman shut oil tho B current nnd applied tho brakes, but B tho car slid along until it stopped dl- B rectly In tho . path of tho oncoming B train. B |