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Show UNION PACIFIC TRAIN WRECKED Motor Train Plunges Down Embankment Near Randolph, Ran-dolph, Kansas, Into Nine Feet of Water. SIXTY REPORTED DEAD Call Sent for All Available Doctors and Nurses Forty Persons Injured. Omaha, Neb.. Oct. 16. At 1 o'clock this afternoon Union Pacific headquarters head-quarters reported that two hides had been recovered from the wreck near Randolph, Kan., and possibly six others oth-ers are still in the water where the went down. Thirty-seven passengers were taken from the car alive. Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 16. A large number of persons were killed and many were injured today when motor train number 579 on the Union Pacific plunged down aa embankment near Randolph, Kansas. A washout caused caus-ed the accident. One of the cars on the train was submerged in Fancy creek, a local stream, and most of the dead wore drowned. This information camo to the Union Uni-on Pacific officers in Kansas City today to-day While but scant details were available, it was known the motorman of the Ill-fated train met death with his passengers. The train which carried two cars, left Manhattan this morning early, for Marysvale. It carried about 75 passengers. pas-sengers. A three-inch rain fell In the vicinity yesterday. The accident occurred oc-curred near the approach to the bridge over Fancy creek where the track had been washed away. The first car plunged down the high embankment burying itself deep in the stream below. It was in the forward compartments of the car that the greatest loss of life was believed to have occurred. Forty Estimated Dead. Dr Louis Atwood of Topeka and Alma K. Jellin of Garrison, Kans , were the only identified dead up to noon. At that hour It was estimated estima-ted forty persons had been Injured oo |