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Show HUMORED KILLED " IN TRAIN WRECK EXPRESS PLUNGES THROUGH COACHES OF LOCAL, KILLiNG MANY WORKMEN. Engineer Said to Have Disregarded Signals and Thus Placed Lives of Passengers in Peril. Crews of Both Trains Lost. N;i.sh villi-, 'J'l-n ii. --At least J ()J iii--Hoii-, must, (if tin-in negroes, were killed iiti'l many mure injured in u head-on collision Tus!:iy between two pnsseiiger triiins mi tin- .Nashville, 'hul I iimogu A: M. l.ouis railway nL 1 , ,i Linen's I'.i-mi, l,ve mili s from this city. Most of tin1 kilh'il and iiijiin-il were on 11 local I'm in from Nashville, which curried several ruaehes full of work-iii'-ii going tf 11 near-by powder plant. Tim oilier trau was an express from Mi-in;-liis mill Ihc west, anil, after the two engines had reared ami I'alh-n ho-sidc ho-sidc tin.- tracK, tin.' heavy coiiehcs of 1 in express ploughed through the baggage bag-gage ear on the iieeominoilat ion train tiiitl demolished two o'he:- o'ri.hi'S. As the creus of both locomotives were killed, the cause of tin; collision may never he estahlished. The express train was running hue and one theory advanced was that the engineer id' the aecommodalion train may have disregarded disre-garded signals and tried to main! a Mvltch Just heyohd where the wreck occurred heforo the Memphis train arrived. ar-rived. There also was the possihilily that he may have heen given wrong Instructions. ' Three investigations of the wreck were expected, one hy oflicials of the road, another hy state officials, and ti third liy the railroad administration. Only a few women were unions the killed. Most of the white persons killed were in the telescoped smoking car of the accommodation train. |