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Show hie for the wreck. The trains were to have pasbed at this station. L. H. Howaid. Brookfkld. Mo, brakeman on No. c, was killed. S. E. Lnngherty, Joliet. Montana, head cut, right side Injured, and left leg hurl. Steel Cars Prevent Loss of Life. The weight of the engine of train No. 201 and the fact that it carried s;eel cars prevented any one ou it being injured None of the Injured will die, it is thought. All those who were hurt, with the exception of members mem-bers of the crew were In the smoking car on the Burlington train This car was derailed and rolled down an embankment. em-bankment. All the remainder of tho equipment of both trains remained on the track. Thrown Through Window. Afi-r the Burlington train had passed pass-ed here Luther F. Wllholt, the agent, icallzed a wreck might take place j !!e called frrmers along the line by ' telephone and pleaded with them to i-t rtp ihe train., but It was too late. Howard, who was killed, was thrown through a window of the smoker and crushed to deaih beneath the car. Relief trains were sent from Kansas City and l.albrop. The engines met on a high trestle met- a small creek. So great was the weight of the Rock Island train, however, how-ever, that It drove the Burlington tiain hjck off the trestle. ONE KILLED AND EIGHTEEN INJURED HOLT, Mo.. Sept. lfi. One man wa; killed and elbu-en persons injured 'when two pnssonter t rain. met in a head-on collision on the Chicago, Bur-llngtoa Bur-llngtoa and Quincy railroad, one mile north of here at o'clock tonight. Misunderstood Ordei-3, The trains which collided were the Chicago. Burlington jnd Quincy No. 0, w hich left Kansas City at 5 o clock! and the Chicago. Rock-KTand and Pa clflc. number cm, which left Chicago nt 11:30 o'clock bust night. Tb lat ter train headed in on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy tracks at Cameron Cam-eron Juuctlon on Its way to Kansa.i City. A ralsundemandlug of order by the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy Quin-cy crew is said to have been responsi- |