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Show TRAINMEN IN A FATAL WRECK Three trainmen were instantly killed yesterday afternoon when the boiler of a locomotive on tho Western West-ern Pacific railrond blew up on the top of Antelope hill, forty-four miles west of Wlnnemucca Tho dend: JAMES CASEY, engineer. FRED READER, fireman. JAMES CROSBY, brakemnn. Crosby is a son-in-law of Judge William Bonnlfield of Wlnnemucca. The cause of the explosion has not been ascertained. The explosion occurred shortly bc-foro bc-foro tho arrival at Antelope of east-mound east-mound passenger train No. 4, and as tho track was budly torn up, the passenger pas-senger traffic was delayed aoveral hours. The threo victims of tho explosion, all of whom resided In Wlnnemucca, 1 wero blown literally to pieces. Noth- ! lng was left of the engine except tho running gear. 1 Tho wiecked locomotive was draw-lng draw-lng a freight train in cbarge of Con- ' ductor A C. Card. One car was demolished, de-molished, but the conductor and another an-other member of the crew escaped uninjured Telegraph wires sixty feet distant were broken by the concussion. concus-sion. Both Casey and Reader aro well known railroad employes. Neither is married. Casey was bora hi County Coun-ty Perry, Ireland, and was about 35 years old. Ho was an E!k, belonging in Ogden. Reader was a native of Illinois and was about 25 ycais old. He was past master of Elkolodge No. 792, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen Fire-men and Engineers. Employes of the Western Pacific spead in the highost torms of the Uo men. They say that the explosion might bo accounted for bv tho fnM 1 that tho water used on the onginos 1 I west of Elko always gives trouble. 1 Engine G7, which was wrecked, waa an oil humor. |