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Show v v v v V V V 9 9. V 1 Ku Klux Klan Horsewhips Man I WRONG SWITCH I THROWN; TWO I THIS CRASH I Casualties Occur When Steel I Pullman Buckles When Sicleswipecl M0NTANAN IS AMONG f IDENTIFIED VICTIMS l ;Two Other Wrecks Bring Death and Suffering in Eastern Cities i BRIJB, Pa , Oct. 20. Seven person! i are known to have been killed and -J ffl least 17 Injured in a wreck on tha New York Central railroad near tho union station near hero today. Some H j of the Injured are so badly hurt that hospital physicians said they expected the list of casualties to be Increased. The identified dead: Oaspard Dcscamps, Missoula. MonL Alzor Carlson, ago 14, Sebeka. Mini). Mrs. Rose Rodgers, Cincinnati. Gideon Carlson, Sebeka, Minn. Mrs Gideon Carlson, Sebeka. .Minn. liurke Xfekia, Grinned, Uki fH Mrs. .lack Hanson and infant aoh, H I Seattle, Wash. jH Mrs. J. C. Seaeord, Chicago. Alma ETormacb, Sweden jH George W. Andrus, Buffalo. J Mrs. Findley Woods, Palatine. III. Walter W. Klchardshon, New York Ida C Myers, Chicago. Mrs C C. Slagg, Mark. End TURNS WRONG SWITCH. H According to reports to railroad men, a party of signal repairmen were jH I at work near ihe west end of the t -I tlon when the Chicago and Boston i.-xpre-s easlliound fame in. sight and .almost at the same moment westbound train No. 23 from Buffalo to Cleveland ...j in his baste i. JH the ui. u tlir. w a wmng switch, it was said. Train No. 2 3 took the wrong I track and the next Instant was aide;-swiped aide;-swiped by tho train from the nrestj. 'The third car, a steel Pullman ohair car, was struck. It buckled and h- re I tho casualties occurred. 0 Hundreds of people quickly collect- H !ed and ambulances and physicians were I hurried from all the hospitals. Rescuo parties worked fast and In a short time five bodies, four of them women, lay beside the track. Meantime tbjB Injured were hurried to hospitals where two of them later died. l I.N VHP DEAD. CLEVELAND. O.. Oct. 20 New York Central officials at 2 p. m- re- .'-.( word from Erie that seven were dead ami nineteen injured in the wrei If of two passenger trains there. The company's list of dead included M - f Anna L TOkle, Grinned!. Ia All of the killed nnd injured wen on Westbound train No 23. LH VNOTTTEK ACCIDEN1 J ROANOKE. Va.. Oct. Z0. Three trlanmen were killed, five others in- J jured and five or six pass. ng is -hak- J an up In a head-on collision between two Norfolk and Western passenger trains early today at Kural ltetreat, J .. . according to an official announce- tl ment at the railway headquarters here jJ today. Th.. trains met on a elding. 0 CAR RUNS AWAY M STOPX CITY 20 Twenty passengers aboard a Court street car H were Injured, one of th. m peruana f" tally and eight others seriously, when H the car got beyond control of its mu-torman, mu-torman, Elmer Kesher, this morning. plunged down a hill hurtled into Ike street and was wrecked against the side of a curb. The brakes failed to hold when descending the hill, it was reported |