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Show 1ECKACE Passengers On a Train Bound For Scotland Burned to Death Kirkby-Stephen, England, Dec. 24. Eight passengers were killed, some of them instantly, and tho others burned to death, and twenty-five more injured injur-ed in the wreck of the Scotch express, ex-press, near Hawas Junction today. , The express (carried f0n persons bound for their home in Scotland to spend Christmas. It was running at Its ordinary speed when, near the junction, it collided with a pilot engine en-gine and was derailed. Fire broke out In the wreckage and the whole train, with the exception of the locomotive and a rear baggage car was reduced to ashes. It was thought at llrst that but two persons had leen killed and that the others had had time to escape before the flames swept through the coaches. A search of the debris, however, resulted result-ed in the discovery of charred bodies and by the time that tho whole wreckage wreck-age had been gone through, eight bodies had been recovered. Most of the bodies were burned beyond be-yond recognition. Parents Saw Child PerUh. Among tho dead was a little girl who perished In th flames before the eyes of her parents, who were helpless help-less to save her. The scene of the accident was high up In the Pennine hills, the loftiest section traversed by railways In England. Eng-land. The Isolation of the wreck caused some delay before physicians i could reach, the- place. oo |