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Show FATAL TRAIN WRECK Ten Killed and Many Hurt in Rear-end Col- lision on N. Y. Central. DUNKIRK, N. Y, July l Eight persons are known to be dead and more than fort were injured in a rear-end rear-end collision between the second sec tion cf train No. 41 and train No. 7. 'known as the "Westerner," at 2 20 o'clock this morning at the Third street station here. All the fatalities , occurred in the first passenger car I of the rear train, the Westerner, when its engine buckled back through a i wooden express car. Bight bodies were taken from the wreckage and rescuers clearing the de. , bris were working toward what they believed to be two additional bodies. Twenty persons, some seriously injured, in-jured, were taken to the Brooks Memorial Me-morial hospital. i As many more passengers were ! treated by local and out of town doctors doc-tors and brought here on relief trains. Train No. 41 left Buffalo at 12:01 o'clock The Westerner left a short time later Railroad officials say No. 41 developed an overheated journal and was delayed here. A flagman was sent back, It Is claimed, but the Westerner West-erner did not cheek speed perceptibly as It rushed into the Dunkirk yards, eye witnesses say. All the coaches of No. 41 were of steel construction. The rear of the last coach was badly battered av No. 7's engine knocked it from the track, but the body remained Intact Three other coaches of No. 41 were aJso pushed from the rails but remained upright. When the tender and engine of the Westerner buckled back through the wooden express car and crashed into a steel day coach, the first passenger car on the train, the boiler explod. d. fatally scalding Engineer Clifford and Fireman Stolz. The steel day coach of the West erner was reduced to wreckage. The next car. a sleeper, was partly wrecked and many of the Injured were taken from It. DUNKIRK. N. Y.. July 1- Ten persons per-sons were killed and more than a score were injured in a rear-end collision between New York Central trains No. 7, known as the Westerner and the second section of train No. 41, here early today. At 8 a m. there were seven bodies at the morgue and It was said that rescuing parties working in the wreckage wreck-age had located three more bodies. Twenty injured were at the Brookx Memorial hospital and many others less severely hurt proceeded on their journey after receiving surgical attention atten-tion at a temporary dressing station near the wreck. Both trains left Buffalo at one minute min-ute past midnitcht. train No. 41 having the right of way, and this morning both sections were ahead of train No. 7. The second section stopped here to discharge passengers and was delayed In getting under way again "y an overheated over-heated Journal. Train No. 7 Is a through express. Eye witnesses of the accident sa that when the engine of No. 7 plunged into the rear of the standing cars its speed had diminished only slightly. The rear coach was telescoped tele-scoped by No. 7 s engine and three others were smashed. Tramp Cause of Wreck. WASHINGTON, July 1. An unidentified uniden-tified tramp, killed in the New York Central railroad wreck at Dunkirk this morning, was, according to reports to the railroad aaministration, probably the caue of the tragedy. The mechanism controlling the flow of air from the locomotive to the brakes on the train was tound shut off, at the placo where the tramp was riding. |