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Show Off the Track and Killed. Joleet, ID., January 12. A fatal acoident occurred on the Chicago, St. Louis & Western West-ern Railway yesterday, near Roanoake, a small station about . thirty miles below Streator. . inree engines witn a snow-piow started out from Streator to clear the track of snow, and when near Roanoake struok a -large drift of heavy, packed snow with such force that the snow-plow and head engine were thrown from the track and badly wrecked, the other engines not leaving the rail. Lucas Slouson, who was engineer of the head engine, was found between be-tween the fire-box and tender, crushed to death, though his fireman miraculously escaped es-caped with only a few bruises. |