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Four Killed, 10 Injured, In A Collision

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
September
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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A colusión on the Wabash railroad be tween a passenger and a fretght train at Keytesville, Mo., resultad in the death of four men and injury of 10 other persons. The freight vvas a minute late at Keytesville and was just entering ;he switch when the passenger train crashed into it. The cage in which 10 men were béng lowered into shaft No. 2 of the Alden Coal Co., at NanticoUe, Pa., suddenly dropped to the bottom of the shaft- 850 feet. Eight of the men were sevei-ely injured and four will die. The monthly report of the government statistician shows that Europe's crops will be 113,000,000 bushels keluw the average for six years past, 'Jo make up the deüeiency little help is to se expected from India, Argentina or Australasia for months to come and in so far as Europe will have to import a arger quantity than usual she will ïave to draw mainly from North America and especially from the United States, the Canadian cpntributions beiug' relatUely small. It is feared that the harvest in Argentina will be almost ntively ' stroyed by locusts.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register