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Show SUiWAN TRAIN Three Hundred Passengers Pass-engers Desperately Fight to Escape Now York, April 3. Fire, particularly partic-ularly tdTeaded by subway pa'jien-gers, pa'jien-gers, broke out in a southbound ex-j ex-j press train last night and caused ' three hundred panic-stricken passen-I passen-I gers to fight desperately for escape from the burning train. Fortunately, j the accident occurred at a point in tho j Bronx, where, for a short distance, 4ho subway tracks run on an elevated structure, so that the fumes were not j confined as they would have been In the tunnel. As it was. however, three of tho cars were filled almost to the point of suffocation by a dense smoke which followed an explosion In the motor box. Despite the assurances assur-ances of the guards and a few calm I passengers, women . screamed and rushed for the rear cars.-Vltha' high 'wind fanning the flames, the two front cars wero soon ablaze. The niot-orman niot-orman applied the latrbrakes and brought the train to a sudden stop , between stations. I When the guards finally threw open tho doors, men, women and children streamed out on the structure almost regardless of the dangerous third rail, and made their way for three city blocks to the Jackson-street station, where they gained the 6treet. The thiee forward cars of tho train were badly damaged before the flames were extiDguI&hed. and traffic was delayed for somo time. |