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Show WAS FAITHFUL TO THE END. Claim Agent Would Not Admit Thera Had Been a Wreck. A reporter on a Kansas City paper was among those on a relief train that was being rushed to the scene of a railway wreck in Missouri. About the first victim the Kansas City reporter re-porter saw was a man sitting in the; road with his back to a fence. Hil had a black eye, his face was some what scratched and his clothes were badly torn but he was entirely caln: The reporter jumped to the side oJ the man against the fence. "How many hurt?" he asked of thd prostrate one. ; "Haven't heard of anybody being hurt," said the battered person. , "What was the cause of ths wreck?" ,' "Wreck? Haven't heard of any 1 wreck." "You haven't heard of any wreokl Who are you, anyway?" " "Well young man, I don't know that that's any of your business, bul I am the claim agent of this road." |