Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-31 | Page 1 | 42 Shot When Former Yanks Fire a Salute

Hhtflalu.ll It Five Killed and Score. Injured In Collision of Trains ' in Oklahoma M A R S HA LLT O WN , la.. May 31. orty-two persons were Injured, lour seriously, at Liscomb, la., when a squad of former soldiers fired a Me-I Me-I moi-Ial Day salute. Shot cartridges I were used to make a maximum of j noloe. Some of tho shot scattered j into tho assembled crowd of 1,000 I persons. i TULSA, Okla.. May 31. At least five persons were killed and a scoro ' Injured in a hed-on collision of two St. Louis and San Francisco passenger trains early ' today near White Oak, a village about fifty miles northeast of ' here, according to reports received-here. received-here. The wreck occurred on a sharp curve when tho trains were running about forty .miles an hour. Both engineers died at their posts of duty. A mail clerk, a news agent and a negro also were killed. The lw6 engines were welded' together to-gether by the force of -.he impact. A special train of the dead and injured in-jured was sent to Vlnlta. No statement of the cause of the j wreck has 'been given out by the railroads. rail-roads. The dead and Injured wore all from Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma.