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Show KILLED IN A HECK Express on New York' Central Crashes Into Train at a Station Batavia, N. Y., Jan. 13. In a colli- ; slon between train No. 49 of the Boston Bos-ton & Buffalo special and train No. 23 on the New York Central road, here today, at least six persons were killed and eighteen seriously injured. The accident occurred at 5:30 o'clock, when train. No. 49 was standing stand-ing in the station. Train No. 23, the western express, due at 5:20 o'clock, a little late, crashed Into the waiting train from the rear. , , The engine telescoped the rear Pullman of the waiting train and, smashed Into a day coach ahead. "With one exception tho bodies oE passengers in the wreckage of tho. sleeping car are so mutilated as to make Identification difficult. Beneath one of the 'bodies "was . found a silver locket and a -Masonic charm inscribed Cassius C. Perrln 9581 Mecca Temple, New Tork.t , j i r The Injured. The following Injured are In a local hospital:. H. H. .Cade, Chicago, Joth lega kJ 'broken, Jbac deopryMJurnetfr iaXa.fi " " Hh C Stiles, Dorchester, .Mass".,. Pullman conductor, face cut, R. A. Smith, Jlochester, bacK injured. in-jured. James A- Moore, Buffalo, lawyer, back injured. Catherine Iliggins and son, (Richland, (Rich-land, N. M., cuts and shock John Shaw, Toronto, leg broken. C. D. Vnnsler, Goldfiold, Ner.j slightly injured. END INSERT Montec Fiscoe, lawyer," Indianapolis, aerious. P. G. Van Valkenberg, Maple street, Fultonvllle, N. Y.: probable will die. James Moore, lawyer. Buffalo; seri ously. H. C. Cole, address unknown. H. L. Jones, Chicago, conductor, on vacation; slightly, Robert McFarland, Detroit; fatally. Abraham Cole, porter, Boston; slightly. Mrs. John Shaw, Toronto, Ont., severe se-vere scalp wounds. Mrs. Catherine Iliggins and son, Thomas, Stoughton, Mass., painfully. Edward Dobson, Blackburn, England, Eng-land, painfully. Superintendent Everett of the western west-ern division of the New York Central railroad made the following statement: state-ment: "From preliminary investigation, J. B. Llndell of Buffalo, engineer oa train No. 23, which ran into train No. 49 (Boston & Buffnlo express) was responsible for the accident, in that he disobeyed signals. Llndell has been In our employ for forty years and hag been an engineer since 1SSS, with a perfect record. The engine of train No. 23, the New York Central's AVcstern express, struck tho rear of train No 49, the Boston and Buffalo express, with such force that the rear car of train No. 49 a sleeper, crumpled before the impact. The engine was reduced to wreckage, benenth which the four bodies wore found. Tho bodies were so mutilated and live steam played such havoc that early identification was Impossible. The oncoming engine continued through tho sleeping car into the rear of a day coach ahead. Nearly all the injured wero in the sleeper.' Passengers Asleep. I Most of the passengers were asleep when the shock camo. There were desperate struggles with debris. Jets , of steam from the punctured boiler . of tho locomoUve added to tho torture tor-ture of those cwsabled and also delayed delay-ed the work of rescue. Dead. Tho bodies arc: ' Man, 50 years old, probably Caslus C. Perrln, Brooklyn, K". Y a Masonic charm found beneath his body. Man, 30, smooth face, plain gold band ring, the word "Engagement" engraved Inside Man, 35, ring marked "F. J. S." Man, 40. |