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Show oo TEN KILLED IN A WRECK German Train Ditched and Cars Telescoped at a Station - Mullheim Baden, Germany, July 17. A through express from Basel, Switzerland, Swit-zerland, for Berlin, crowded with heavy tourist traffic, was wrecked here today. Ten persons are known to have been killed, while scores of others were Injured, many of them seriously. Great confusion followed the accident acci-dent and It was with difficulty that the extent of the disaster could he determined. de-termined. Up to this evening the dead had not been Identified and it was impossible to learn whether there were Americans among the victims. vic-tims. The accident occurred as the train coming from the south was entering the station. The locomotive was derailed de-railed and was followed from the tracks by the cars. These cars telescoped tele-scoped each other. At the sarqe time I the remaining" cars were thrown to I the9Pposite side of the track and piled up against the bank, ' The people of the little resort appear ap-pear to have been stunned by the magnitude of the disaster, which has been equaled In recent years, only by the accident at Mullhelm-am-Rhein on I March 30, 1910, when twenty-two persons per-sons were killed in a collision. |