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Show TWO ARE MILLED IN 0. L. WRECK Word was receded hero jesterday of the death of Engineer William Purdio and Fireman Eugene Daie in a wreck twelve miles north of Lima, MonL, at' 1:25 o'clock jesterday morning. No others were injured, "probably due 10 the fact that the passenger' coaches on Shoit Line train No. A weie btcel cais. The jnrd crew at Lima, according to advices, failed projxjrly to set a derail de-rail switcli on a side track at Limn, allowing iwo steel cars loaded with coal to get away and start down the grade townrd Kidd, about thirteen I miles from Lima. Train No. 1, south-1 south-1 bound, in charge of Conductor W. F . I Joans and Fnjrineer William Purdio, j had left Kidd and was about a mile I out when Engineer Purdie, with the aid of the electric searchlight, sighted the runaway cars coming down the grade at a terrific rate. Ho immediately immedi-ately ntopped his tialn. but was unable un-able to start backing before the heavily heav-ily loaded cars were upon it. Purdio jumped from his cab, hut in the resultant re-sultant crash was killed instantly by a flying piece of steel. Fireman Dare lomalned in the cab when the crash came. He was so badly hurt that lie enly lived an hour. : A carload of fish consigned to an eastern city came just behind the engine en-gine on No. I, it bring the only wooden wood-en car in the 'rain, it was completely complete-ly demolished. The engine was a wreck and the first of the two coal cars was smashed to pieces. |