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Show like dumber convened the motion of J .M. Leveilie, that all numbers have a liiilit to attend ttie sitliisgs of the in-j in-j wstigating committee, was defeated 4-ii to 12 ). De Rorilede. announced that bo would not be a member of the investigating inves-tigating committee, because the major-icy major-icy was inadequately repre.-euted on the propositi l.-t. The first vole for member;' mem-ber;' resulted In the election of twenty-thrco twenty-thrco r-HCbHcsfis and three coirservr.-ti'.ws. coirservr.-ti'.ws. The conservatives formally re-d re-d from the committee because cf too insufficient representation cf '.beer side- The eecc-nd '.ote will be taken tomorrow. to-morrow. Omaha, Neb. Xov. 22 - Six people were killed and r.-i;. injured to-day by a s.reek ca the Union Pieifieat AM i , N di. Tho disas; -r was caused by a e-. I-lision I-lision between tUi) overland Fljer, due at Omaha at 10:10 this morning, anil a freight which had jnst pulied out of the Alda yard. B jtn engines were smashed tlio baggage and postal cars tek scmcd and the freight eirs pulled up in a broken maps. Following is the list o'. killed and injured. The dead: J, VV. Keller, couducter of the frieght; Barney McDonald, passenger engineer; Sus Barret freight engineer; Ira Owens, fireman; William Costello, passenger fireman; William brakeman. Injured A. SI. Lyons, mail agent. Lyons will probably die. No passengers were hurt. The wreck was one of the worst on the Union Pacific for several years. The freight had been doing some switching and had backed on a eid'.ng to await the passage of the fast express train. It was supposed the switch was set seenre for the main track, but tho opposite oppo-site was the case, and the passenger train, coming on at the rate of forty-five forty-five miles au hour, crashed into the freight with terrible force. The Coroner's Coro-ner's inquest developed the fact that Conductor Keller was responsible for the open switch. Paris, X v. 22. The R-tiliioan members ct the chamber of deputies dc-cid dc-cid d today that the c. minission inquiring inquir-ing into the iiCaijs of tho Panama Canal ccmpatiy shall cor.-ist of twenty-three twenty-three r.-i lib. leans, bins conservatives arid one lieu laugisi. The proceedings on Frid ly will be brief, ti e pr-sideut i f the ci-miubsioii merely calling the names of the accused. H is reported that De Lesseps is seriously ill. When |