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Show RUNS INTO AN OPEN SWITCH Train Is Wrecked, Fireman Fire-man Killed, Seventeen Injured Memphis. Feb. S. Train No. 2, known as .the "fast mall," on the Illinois Illi-nois Central railroad, northbound, was wrecked near Coldwater, Miss., early today, by running Into an open switch. Two men were killed outright, one fatally fa-tally injured and fifteen others , hurt. The dead: Martin Stanley, fireman, Memphis. At the scene of the wreck it is reported re-ported that three or four others still are under the debris. The injured: Mail clerk, name not known. George D. Matthews, express messenger. mes-senger. Musco Victoria, stealing a ride. George Barnett, engineer. L. F. Lleber, postal clerk. Hugh Ylckley, Memphis. J. F. Stephens. Memphis. J. F. Keuderfer, superintendent of , the Mississippi division of the Illinois ; Central, knocked unconscious and badly cut about the face and heai. i F. D. Cameron, baggageman, I Mrs. C. L. Harber, Brownsville, Tenn. I The wreck occurred Immediately In i front of the postofflce at Coldwater, ac-! ac-! cordln gtn reports from there, and resulted re-sulted from the train running Into an open switch- Every coach was overturned over-turned excepting the last Pullman. |