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Show IFIFTY KILLED IN ! RAILWAY ACCIDENT i Eipress Train Craihed Into Train Loaded With Pilgrims on Their Way to a Shrine. Accident It 8uppoaed to Have Deen Due to a Misplaced Switch, tho Cars Being Telescoped and Shattered to Matchwood. Antwerp A railroad accident ol unprecedented horror In tho annals ot Delglnn train disasters occurred Thursday morning at Contlch, n sta Hon six miles southeast of Antwerp on the main line An express train from Antwerp to Dmsscls crashed Into n train loaded with pilgrims on their way to a local shrtno This train was standing on a aiding Several Sev-eral of Its car wcro telescoped nnd shattered to matchwood Tho total number of dind Is placed at flft) and Iho wounded nl over 100 Itcscuers from Contlch were nt once on the scene, and tho labor ot succoring tho Injured nnd removing the dead was conducted with nil possible, pos-sible, haste Special trains with doctors doc-tors priestn. nnd nurses wcro sent lo Contlch from Antwerp and llrussels Tho nccldent Is supposod to havo been dun to a mrsplnced switch Tho engl Peer nnd tho fireman of lbs express trnln wtro killed outright |