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Show ENGINEER KILLED I IN TRAIN WRECK I Double Header of Rock Island H Road Derailed in Passing B Curve. H Trenton. Mo., Jan. 20. Louis Col- jH lier, engineer of Trenton. Missouri, (H was killed and four trainmen were H injured near here early today when a H double header train on the Chicago. , H Rock Island and Pacific railway, made H up of the "Golden State Limited" and H Chicago passenger train No. 2 east- H bound, was derailed. H All the steel coaches left the track H but no passengers were injured. H The trains were combined at Kan- H sas City last night and left there as JH a double header. Coming into Tren- H ton at a speed of forty miles an hour, ' H the united train vas derailed In pass- H ing a curve. M Locomotive Turns Over. M The second locomotive In charge oi H Engineer Collier and William McRey- H nolds, fireman turned completely over H and pinned Collier underneath. The WM engineer was crushed to death. Mc- H Reynolds vaa thrown out of the cab , H and escaped with a crushed foot. H The mail car, baggage car and smolc- H or wer thrown over in leaving the H rails. Conductor G. M. Burnett of m Kansas City was in the smoker and m suffered two broken ribs: Lon Mose- H lv, a flagman of Kansas City, was cut H and bruised severely and J. .A. i- , H Walker, an extra conductor who was , mgm riding to Rock Island, Illinois, suffer- H ed injuries to his hip. H |