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Show HE KILLED, MORE INJURED IN COLLISION Wortham Shows Special Is Wrecked in Rear-end Smaslmp NEW ORLEANS. La.. Oct. 31 Three dead, four seriously injured, two missing and two slightly nurt w.is the loll taken In the rear-end railroad wreck early today when the fast Sunset Sun-set express New Orleans, San FVan-eisco FVan-eisco Southern Pacify: passenger train No. 109, tore Into the Wortham carnival car-nival Shows special. 35-car train, cn route from New Orleans to New Iberia. La. The dead and injured were mom-be mom-be r a of the shows. Those m the pas-eenger pas-eenger train escaped Injury. Tho two missing an- the engineer and fireman of tho circus train. The wreck occurred ncir Adeline, La., between Franklin And Nei ll" rifl Hoth trains were proceeding westward on ii portion of the road that is double tracked. Tho locdmotlvo of the passenger train ploughed through two of the sleepers on the rear end of the circus cir-cus train before it was brought to a standstill. Passengers on tho Sunsc ezprei aided the train ciewn In chopping open portions of tho Pullmnns -where the Ircus folk were trapped and crying out for rescue as fire was feared. When the Sunset express pulled In bfhlnd. the eng!o er saw the flares and stopped his train until they died down, and then proceeded rie did not nee'the rear end UghtS bl ths cir cum train until almost on lop Of It, 11 is claimed, as hi eyes wore blinded by tho searchlight of the locomotive pulling a frelgnt train. There were persistent reports that the Sells Floto circus STBS Wrecked ,'iil not the Wortham show;; as the two were, moving In the SttQlG direction, and wore only a few mll"s apart. loiter, loi-ter, Mr Floto, manager of the Sells-Floto Sells-Floto announced at Patterson, thai his circus was not in the SlrinshUp. The dead were officials of th Wortham shows |