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Show ELECTRIC TRAIN OF ! MILWAUKEE ROAD ! IN FATAL SMASHUP 1 5 i FuLENSBURG, Wash.. June 1 16. A brakeman was killed, two I othei men were injured and IS freight cars were destroyed loday I when a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. I Paul railway train got beyond j control near Boylston tunnel and I ran wild downgrade for seventeen 1 miles. Railway officials said over-generation over-generation of current on the elec- trie locomotive caused tho accl-1 accl-1 dent. The train consisted of forty-I forty-I eight cars with an electric loeo-I loeo-I motive ahead and a steam loco- motive in front of the caboose at ; the rear. The steam engine, . jj water car and caboose left tho track first. Thirteen cars "jumped the rails and were burned near Uorls by contact with the electric lines. 1 Ten other cars were hurtled from the track near Cohnsaot and 1 later the remaining cars left the rails, knocked down the power lines and were burned. The elec-i elec-i trie locomotive was put under I control at Beverley. Railroad officials estimate the damage will run into hundreds of I thousands of dollarn. The cars were loaded with valuable freight, hundreds of yards of track were torn up andthe' power lines were knocked down and burned ' in 1 many places. I 00 |