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Show THIRTEEN KILLED IN GROSSING CRASH TWENTY-FIVE OTHERS INJURED WHEN TROLLEY CAR IS RUN DOWN BY SWITCH ENGINE. Panic Stricken Passengers Jump From Doors and Climb Through Windows, Falling Under Wheels of Moving Freight Cars. Detroit. Thirteen persons were killed and more than twenty five injured, in-jured, several probably fatally, late Sunday night when a switch engine pushing two freight cars crashed into a crowded street car at Korest avenue ave-nue and Dequinder street, on the east side. There were more than ninety persons In the street car, many of them returning from the theatres. The street car was struck almost In in the center, the impact pushing It from the tracks and sliding it alongside along-side of the freight cars. Panic st icken passengers began Jumping from doors and climbing through windows. Most of the dead were killed hy Jumping from the car and falling under the wheels of tho still moving freight cars. Those who were killed outright at the crossing were so badly mangled that Identification there was Impossible. Impos-sible. According to a member of the switching crew, the train was moving at about twenty miles all hour when It struck the street car. |