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Show CHICAGO CUBS IN j RAILROAD WRECK ! O'Fallon, 111., April 17. Tho Chicago I National lcaguo baseball team had a narrow escape from serious Injury I when tho B. & O. S. W. train boarlng ( tho players from SL Louis to Clncln- notl Jumped tho track horo at 10.15 Inst night, hitting a spread rail nlno-tcen nlno-tcen miles from St. Louis. Tho train, I carrying twelve coachos, was running forty-flvo miles an hour when the ' wreck occurred. Most of the players " wore preparing to retire when the j crash came. Luckily nouo was injur- I ed, the engineer bringing tho train to a stop in about 200 yards. |