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Show KJJ FREIGHT CRASHES INTO A SPECIAL Four Killed and More Than a Score Injured on Knights of Pythias Excursion Excur-sion Train. Columbus, O., Aug. 12. Four persons per-sons were killed and more than a score injured, some of them seriously, serious-ly, early today, when a heavily loaded load-ed freight train crashed Into a special train, bearing a party of members of the Knights of Pythias lodge of Mount Sterling, O., many of them ac-pnmn.inifid ac-pnmn.inifid bv their wives, or Other members of their families. Tho accident occurred at Orient station, on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railway, 14 miles south of Columbus The excursionists were returning from an annual outing at Cedar Point, near Sandusky. The excursion ex-cursion train had stopped to take water wa-ter when tho freight train crashed into it. Members of the freight crew said they knew the excursion ivas ahead of them, but understood their orders gave the "freight train a clear track. The dead: LOGAN POLLER, Pickaway county, farmer. MARGARET SOLL-ARS, Thornie Neff and Thad Mitchell, all of Mount Sterling, or that vicinity. Soveral of the injured including Mrs. Thornie Neff, wife of one of those killed, are believed to have been fatally injured. |