Railway Horrors

Freeport, 111 , Oct. 20. - A fatal accident occurrcd about 3 o'clock Thursilay morning on the new Chicago, Bt. Pau! & Kansas City road near Yellow Creek station, ten miles southwest of this city. Freiglit train No. 97 left here in two sectior.s. The lirst section stopped near Yellow Creek in order to tighlon uu souie of the machinery. lt had been standing there but a short time when the headlight oí the extra dashed around the curve and a moment later the iron monster crushed into the rear of the other train, demolishing the caboose and instantly killing three, of its six occupants. The accident occurred in a sparsely settled resrion and only the most meager details have been obtained. The names of those Killed are: James Orr, Larrimore, Minn. ; John BrownJ St Paul, M nn. ; Edward Hickey, Fair. banks, Minn. The injured are: E. R. Smith, Stockton;' Grant Martin, St. Charles. Neither is badly injured. Harkisburg, Pa Oct. 19- The passenger train leaving here at 7:35 a. m. on tha Cumberland Valley railroad collided witta another passenger train near Shippens burg. Both trains were going at nearly full speed, and the shock of the col. lision badly wrecked the engines and the baggago-cars and coaches. Charles Bitnel baggage-master, of Harrisburg, was killed almost instantly. Both engineers and several of the train-men are injured seriously, but it is thought that none are fatally hnrt. Some oï the passengers also rei ceived some injuries. The colusión wag the result of a misunderstanding in train orders, one train being halt an hour late. Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 'ZO. - It is reported here that the Cincinnati express on the Baltimore & Ohio road was wrecked neai Washington. Pa. Another spatch is aa follows: The cannon-ball express on tha Baltimore & Ohio ran into an open switch near the Washington, Pa., depot about 6:30 o'clock and was precipitatod over a trestle, a distanee of ten feet. The train was running at a high rate of speed and was almost completely wrecked. Tha engineer, James Noonan, and a passenger named Newell, of "Wheeling, were instantly killed, and about twenty injured, a number ser'ously. As stated before, tha accident was caused by a misplaced switch. The train jumped the track and ran into a "Y" near the depot. The curve was so short that the train could not keep the track and iumped over the trestle. Rome, Oct. 34. - Oí the 400 persons known to have been on board the train buried in the land slide near Laterza, 150 dead and wounded have been identifled. A large number of others taken out are as yet unknown. Scores were taken out Moiiday ". and he soldiers and; laborers are exerting themselves to the utmost to recover the bodies still buried. Their work is very much retarded by the extreme com ana snow. iimuus the killed is an entire theatrical troupe, not one of its members surviving Several headless and armleas bodies have been found in the river near by. A young mother, crazed by the shock and the loss of her children, clasped their dead bodies to her breast and refused to release them. A young priest who was buried two hours was taken out without' injury but his hair had turned white. A family of six persons vere taken out toojether. Two carriages in which were thirty car-; abineers sustained no damage. The cara-] bineers were able to assist in extricating, the victims. AU the officials attached to: the train were killed. Xt is estimated that 800,000 cubic meters of earth feil upon thet line. Many of the passengers who esuapcd with their lives left the scène immediately after th accident It is, therefore, impossible as yet to teil the exact number of the killed. Losdon, Oct. 24.- The latest reporta from the railway disaster near Poterza, Italy, say that but nineteen persons were killed and fifty-five injured.