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Show OLD CARS CAUSE OF FATAL WRECK New Orleans Aug. 9. Bad track and old, unsafe cars, were the cause oi the accident on May C on the New Orleans and Northeastern railroad near Eastablichi. Miss., in which nine persons wore killed and 50 injured, according ac-cording to a report made lo tho Inter-state commerce commission today. The cam in which the casualties chiefly chief-ly occurred wore two wooden tourist tour-ist cars, "one of which was built 2G vears ago, the other 2? ears ago," says the report. Tho report points ont that tho accident acci-dent shows the necessity for enforced uso of Btecl cars. |