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Show TRAIN WAS WRECKED BY A BROKEN AXLE 4 Local officers of the Southern Pacific road maintain that the report of the Cosgrove w reck, sent out from Sparks, Thursday morning, In press dispatches, dis-patches, was Incorrect In numerous details and that tho facts are as follows: fol-lows: "Tho wreck was caused by a broken axle under St- Louis RefrlgeVator company's com-pany's car No. 3230. loaded with wine, instead of by a broken rail, and seven cars loaded with oranges, lemons, tomatoes, to-matoes, wino and the like were derailed, derail-ed, but not badly wrecked. The accident acci-dent occurred twenty miles west of Winnemucca, where track conditions are goo. and rails in first-class shape. Two trespassers, beating their way over the road, and named Louis Ver-somme Ver-somme and F. M. Varsney. were killed kill-ed In the wreck, and John Sanchez was injured. The dead bodies were turned over to the authorities at Winnemucca Win-nemucca for interment, and the injur- 1 ed man wag sent to the county hospital, hos-pital, where it is thought ho will recov-ed. recov-ed. The track was cleared for the resumption re-sumption of traffic At 3 p. m., Thursday, Thurs-day, and the wreck has since been en-1 tlr'ely cleared up." Local officers emphasize the fact that there was no broken rail found, even after the wreck, and that tho i accident was unavoidable, owing to j the axle breaking while the train was i running at a comparatively low speed. |