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Show SEARCHING FOR WRECK VICTIMS More Passengers Believed to Have Been Buried Beneath Burning Bradford R. L Local. Boston Gilt-Edge Express Crashes Into Rear Car Over Thirty Injured Lives Lost. Bradford, R,' I., April 18, A search of the wreckage resulting from the rear end colllbion of' two trains on tho New York, New Haven &. Hartford railroad here last night, was still In progress today, In an effort to determine deter-mine whether It contained any bodies In addition to the five persons known to have lost their Hvob. It was the opinion of many persons who had been at the scene during the night that at least three other passengers had been unable to extricate themselves them-selves from the burning mass. More than thirty persons wore injured. All the victims were occupants of the rear car of a local train, which had started to run on a siding In front of the station when tho Gilt-Edge Gilt-Edge Express from Boston crashed into it. Coals from the express locomotive loco-motive and the explosion of a gas tank set fire to tho wreckage and the flames spread so rapidly that the nearby Htatlon and freight house wero destroyed, together with four wooden wood-en coaches of the local train. Trainmen Train-men were at variance In statements as to the signals. Washington, April 18. F. A. Howard How-ard and J. P. McArdle, agents of tho interstate commerce commission, have been ordered from their stations at Springfield and Worcester, Mass , to Bradford, R. I., to investigate last night's -wreck on tho New Haven road. ' |