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Show TRAIN STRIKES MERRY-MAKERS Thirteen People Riding on Hayrack Are Killed When Run Down at Crossing by Passenger Train. Neenah, Wis Twelve persons were Instantly killed, one was so severely se-verely Injured that she died later, and three dangerously hurt when n fast Chicago & Northwestern train struck a hayrack loaded with thirty persons early Sunday. Five other members of the party were badly hurt, and nine escaped unharmed. The party was returning from a wedding anniversary at the farm of Pete Hanson near here. All the victims but two lived In Meuasha. Wis. Practically every person on the wagon was an employe of a wooden-ware wooden-ware company of Menasha and had gone to the Hanson farm to attend the wedding anniversary of a fellow employe. Mr. Hanson had taken the merry-makers to his farm In the early ear-ly evening and had taken them back within a mile of their homes when the collision occurred. |