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Show Sevoral members of freight train crews were more or less injured in a collision at Downoy, 100 miles nortn of Ogdin on the Oregon Short Line, at 11:45 o'clock Tuesday nlghL Failure Fail-ure of the crow of the train which was unloading at Downey to go ahead and flag an on-coming freight is said to have caused the head-on collision. G. H Farr, 2032 Farr avenue. Ogden, Og-den, fireman of train No 7S, was caught between the engine and the tender The right side of his head was cut and he was severely bruised. Engineer H S Brooks was bruised on one foot. Brakeman C J Taylor was bruised on on-1 snoulder, and Conductor Con-ductor H. O. Williams was slightly injured in-jured Several thousand dollara damago was done to the new Downey depot and rolling stock. Coal cars were piled up on tho track by the smashup and the road was not cleared until 10 o clock yesterday morning. Extra freight train No 755, westr bound, was standing on the main line at Downey, a few miles from McCam-mon. McCam-mon. when regular freight No 78 smashed into it |