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Show CASCADE LIMITED I STRUCK BY SLUE I Dining Car and Day Coach 1 Carried Down Embankment jl Three Hundred Feet. H Many Believed to Be Dead or Injured Cries for Help H Are Heard. jH Seattle Wash., Jan. 22-Great H Northern train No. 25, the Cascade H Limited, which, left Spokane tor Seat- H tie last night, -was struck by an ava- H lanche near Cor'ea station, on the H west slope oE tlie "Cascade mountains, imfM 100 miles from Seattle at 7;lo a. m. jH today and the. dining car and day IH coach were torn from the tram and h hurled 300 feet down tho mountain- iH side. The loss of life Is unknown, H but every person in the two cars must H have been killed or injured. The din- , H ing car, which -contained llvo com- H pany employes, raught -fire. The day H coach did not take fire, buth there ( H was difficulty i entering it, owing IH to the snow and debris with which it jM was partly covered. . H The engine and other cars remained H on the track. The first passenger m H found by the rescuers wns a little H boy, alive but soriously hurt- lne H next two passengers were dead. H Two dead and throe injured have H been taken from the dining car. W Tho railroad officials have not ob- 4 H talned.auv names and aro unable to H state exactly how many persons were H in the cars at the time of tho accl- H |