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Show SPECIAL TRAIN IN BA0WICK AURORA, 111., Nov. 9. An oast-bound oast-bound train special from Camp Grant carrying the camp football team and hundreds of fans for the game with Camp Taylor at Cub park, Chicago, was wrecked at Sugar Grove, 111., six miles east of here at 8:30 a. m. Kegular pnssenger train number 53 westbound, collided with the cast-bound cast-bound train. Several wcro reported killed. Threo dead have been taken out of tho wreck. Tho Injured will number twenty, troop officers say. The football special consisted of fi-teen fi-teen coaches crowded with ranTj. The football special had the right of way, the wostbound passenger having been given orders to 'make the siding at Sugar Grove and wait for the special. spe-cial. This, according to army men, it did not do, the two trains meeting hcadon just beyond the siding. CHICAGO, Nov. 9 The wreck of the train carrying hundreds of soldiers from Camp Grant to witness the Camp j Grant-Camp Taylor football game here I this afternoon will not result in postponement post-ponement of the contest, E. C. Witteu, chairman of the committee in charge of the game, announced. Members of tho Camp Grant football eleven were not on the train, he said, the players having reached Chicago last night. |