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OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1917 TWELVE PAGES.
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GRAND JURY ROOM
GUARDED CLOSELY
AGAINSTlEAKS"
Secrecy Pervades AH Doings of
Inquisitorial Body Which
Holds Its First Session
at Court House.
BAILIFF LIKE A SPHINX
Judge Sears Tells Sixteen Men
What Duties Await Their
Efforts.
HAVERSTICK IS FOREMAN
The Grand Jury
f.onnrc K. Haventirk, 124 South Ttalf-tj-Hrhth
street, banker, foreman.
.lamfH K. Trimble, 4207 tret.
Rnhert II. Thorpe, 118 South lorty-ftrt
Rtreet, clerk.
Hi II Sum OlniRteatl, 6015 Main street,
Benson.
Martin J. McEtoj, 2:135 South Twelfth
street, machinist.
ileau O. Jones, 1804 Farnam street, mu
nlrlatt. Green ,. Johnson, 557 South Thirty
third tttreet, teamster. '
AtiKtin K. Green, 3053 Stone street,
street railway company foreman.
Fred ii. Elmiffer, 812 llancroft street,
clerk.
J. Jeffery Itftvey, Hat iron hotel, ar
chitect. Harry A. Cross, 4301 Harney street,
clerk,
Christian E. Clapper, 3728 North Thirty-ninth
street, laborer.
W. C. Buskirk, 2204 Larimoro avenue,
salesman.
Claude 11. Armstrong, 3463 Miami
treet.
A. B. FenruNon, 200 Francis.
Karl B. AlcCrearj, 4615 Wakeley, clerk.
Anticipated secrecy personified
marked the first afternoon's work of
the grand jury, which has settled
clown to business in its awesome
looking quarters on the fourth floor
of the court house, starting the
wheels in its own part of the ma
chinery of justice amoving ill the
usual closed-door manner, particu
larly so this year and in a fashion
that would make the old star cham
ber sessions line up like free-for-all
Georgia camp meetings in compari
son. This grand jury's own and inimit
able brand of secrecy fairly oozed out
from between the cracks of the closely-guarded
doors. Everyone entering
the grand jury chamber was given
the most' scrutinizing once-over by an
eagle-eyed bailiff who, bewhiskercd
like a Russian Cossack, might have
been mistaken for the outer guard at
a nihilist's plot to blow up the czar.
The first two witnesses to break the
ice arid enter the mysterious portals
walked past the outer guard as if
they were reading above the door
the words, "All hope abandon ye who
enter here." They gave the "fish-eye"
to a reporter, on whose bald pate the
lights of the court house have shone
through several grand jury cam
paigns. One T. Lawson, himself
couldn't have discovered a "leak" on
the opening day of the present grand j
jury. I
Instructed by Judge.
That autocratic body, whose secret
conclaves are supposed to strike ter
ror to the hearts of all evil-doers, met
at 11 o'clock yesterday morning and
was charged by the presiding judge of
the district court to investigate "ru
mors" of gambling, any infraction of
the liquor laws, the management of j
me county jau, nospuai ana otner in
stitutions, whether inn keepers are
living up to the laws, anything in the
way of prostitution, the way public
and private homes for children are
being conducted, dope peddling, the
selling of cigarettes u minors and all
iolations of the criminal laws.
The present grand jury, called some
lime ago by the district court, is the
lirst in two years. The jury is a
cosmopolitan looking one, having as
its members Omahans of varied occu
pations and callings. One of the
jurors is a negro teamster. The fore
man is George E. Haverstick, vice
president of the United States Na
tional bank, member of the board of
governors of Ak-Sar-Ben and promi
nent Omaha clubman. When he was
sworn in as foreman of the grand
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The Weather
Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday.
Hour. Doe.
Comparative Loci Record.
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li t'ici"iicy for t'jr. "- period. 1914. 2.73 InchCH 1
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ALIEN BILL WITH
ABC TEST VETOED
.
President Rejects Immigration
Measure Because of Its
Literacy Clause.
RADICAL CHANGE IN POLICY
Washington, Jan. 29. Today presi
dent Wilson vetoed the immigration
bill passed recently by congress be
cause of its literacy test provision.
It was the second time that Presi
dent Wilson had vetoed an immigra
tion bill because of the literacy test
and for the same reason similar meas
ures were given vetoes by Presidents
Cleveland and Taft. The president's
veto message to the house, in which
the bill originated, follows:
"I very much regret to return this
bill without my signature.
Radical Change of Policy.
"In most of the provisions of the
bill I should be very glad to concur,
but I cannot rid myself of the con
viction that the literacy test consti
tutes a radical change in the policy
of the nation which is not justified
in principle. It is not a test of char
acter, of quality, or of personal fit
ness, but would operate in most cases
merely as a penalty for lack of op
portunity in the country from which
the alien seeking admission came.
"The opportunity to gain an educa
tion is in many cases one of the chief
opportunities sought by the immi
grant in coming to the United States,
and our experience in the past has
not been that the illiterate immigrant
is, as such, an undesirable immigrant.
Tests of quality and of purpose can
not be objected to on principle, but
tests of opportunity surely may be.
Might Cause Troublt.
"Moveovcr, even if this test might
be equitably insisted on, one of the
exceptions proposed to its applica
tion involves a provision which might
lead to very delicate and hazardous
diplomatic situations.
"The bill exempts from the oper
ation of the literacy tests all aliens
who shall prove to the satisfaction of
the proper immigration officer or to
the secretary of labor that they are
seeking admission to the United
States to avoid religious persecution
in the country of their last permanent
residence, whether such persecution
be evidenced by overt acts or by laws
or governmental regulation that dis
criminates against the alien or the
race to which he belongs, because
of his religious faith.
An Invidious Function.
"Such a provision, so applied and
administered, would oblige the officer
concerned, in effect, to pass judgment
upon the laws and practices of a for
eign government and declare they did
or did not constitute religious perse
cution. This would, to say the least,
be a most invidious function for any
administrative officer- of this govern
ment to perform, and it is not only
possible but probable that very
serious questions of international jus
tice and comity would arise between
this government and the government
or governments thus officially con
demned should its exercise be
adopted.
"I dare say that these consequences
were not in the minds of the pro
ponents of this provision, but the pro
vision, separately and in itself, renders
it unwise for me to give my assent
to this legislation in its presenUform."
Ordered to Lie on Table.
When the message was read in the
house it was ordered to lie on the
table until Thursday morning and
champions of the bill began laying
their plans for an effort to override
the veto. Chairman Burnett an
nounced tonight that he would move
for a vote Thursday. Two years ago
the house lacked only four votes of
the necessary two-thirds majority to
pass the bill over the veto, the yeas
being 261 and the nays 13b. The at
tempt having failed in the house no
action was taken by the senate.
Report On Print
Paper Inquiry is
Nearly Finished
Washington, Jan. 29. The federal
trade commission's report on its
news print paper investigation prob
ably will be made to congress late
this week. Final agreement on leg
islation to be recommended and ,a
report on the Canadian situation, it
was learned today; arc all that stand
in the way of its completion. Com
missioner Parry will return from Ot
tawa tonight with information on
measures contemplated by Canadian
officials. The commission's law board
will put before it for approval shortly
recommendations for legislation de
signed to prevent a similar paper
shortage situation in the future.
Welcome Arch Costs City
Two Thousand a Year
'"Welcome to our city."
The welcome arch at Eighteenth
and Farnam streets cost the city $1,
791.55 during 1916 for maintenance.
The current cost $469.17 and repair
ing and changing letters entailed an
expenditure of $1,322.38.
During the year many promicnt
pcrsonsof the nation were given an
illuminated welcome. Among those
personages were President Wilson,
Charles i. Hughes. Vice President
Marshall. Charles Warren Fairbanks
and others.
Dave O'Brien, who has just return
ed to Omaha to build a new factory
wants his name on the arch.
Si Wilson 0. K.'s Putting All
; P. M.'s Under Civil Service
Washington. Jan. Approval
J I wa given by President Wilson today
n j to iln senate's amendment o the
I legislative, judicial and executive ap-
j pnipriation hill, which would put
j ( cry postmaster in the counlry under
t ci il service.
OMAHA GETS TWO
MILLIONS FROM
THE BURLINGTON
Hill Road Will Spend This Sum
on Improvements in Gate
City During Current
Year.
BUILD GRAIN
Yii
Will Have Capacity of Two
Million Bushels and Will
Be Enlarged Later.
GRADE HILLS AT GIBSON
The Burlington Railroad company
will spend $2,000,000 in Omaha this
year.
Of this sum, $1,000,000 will be ex
pended in the construction of a 2,000,-000-bushcl
capacity elevator at Gib
son and the other $1,000,000 in grad
ing down hills in the vicinity of Gib
son, where an industrial center will
he built up, in double tracking the
line between Omaha and South Oma
ha and in cutting down the hump that
juts out to the north, west of the
south end of the Tenth street viaduct.
Announcement of these expediturcs
was made by H. E. Byram, vice presi
dent in charge of operation, and C. E.
Burnhain, vice president in charge of
traffic, both of whom were in Oma
ha yesterday afternoon, en route
west on an inspection tour of the
company lines west of the Missouri
river. The two vice presidents were
met here by General Manager Hold
rege, who accompanies them on their
trip.
Vice President Burnham made the
announcement relative to expendi
tures in Omaha and it was concurred
in by Vice President Byram. The for
mer said:
"You may say that the Burlington
by purchase from the Kountze estate,
has acquired title toJ30 acres of land
adjoining and lying south of Gibson.
Here we will, during the summer,;
construct a grain elevator with a ca
pacity of 2,000,000 bushels. It will be
of the tank type, concrete construc
tion and modern in every particular.
It will be built with a view to increas
ing the capacity to 10,000,000 by the
construction of additional tanks. This
elevator will be ready in time to
handle the next crop.
Look Toward Future.
"We look upon Omaha as one of
the greatest grain markets in the
country, and want to be in line to
handle the business as it increases
from year to rear.
"On the tract of ground that we
have bought at Gibson, we will do a
great amount of grading, cutting
down the hills on the west and filling
in the low places to the east. This
tract we intend to develop into an in
dustrial center and, owing to flic fact
that it is a part of Omaha, we think
it ought to be desirable for persons,
firms and corporations seeking loca
tions for manufacturing enterprises.
"With the coming of spring, we
will begin grading the line between
Omaha and South Omaha for double
track. In doing this, we are going
to cut off the hump west of our pas
senger depot, thus enabling us to
take out the curve that has been so
objectionable in the past."
Car Problem Solved.
Relative to the freight car short
age, Vice President Byran asserted
that he believes it will soon be ended.
A plan has been worked out for re
lieving it and this is it, according to
his statement:
"Railroad presidents of alt the
roads of the country have signed an
agreement that becomes effective
February 21. This agreement pro
vides that every road holding the
cars of any other road shall unload
them immediately, or at least with
the greatest possible speed, and at
once return them to the roads own
ing them. This agreement is in line
with a rule applied by the Interstate
Commerce commission, relative to
coal cars, and has worked admirably.
I believe that within thirty days after
the agreement has gone into effect,
the car shortage will begin to adjust
itself and that in the future there will
be little cause for effect."
While the Burlington is in good
shape for handling freight business
along its system at this time, it is
going to be in still better condition
next fall. Mr. Burnham asserted that
the company has recently purchased
2,500 new box cars, 500 of which have
been delivered and the remaining
2,000 will come along between now
and the next small grain harvest.
In addition to the 2,500 box cars
Mr. Burnham asserted that the com
pany has purchased 3,000 all-steel
coal cars and fifty locomotives of the
largest type, all to be delivered in
time to handle the business next sum
mer and fall.
Girl Returned to Her Home,
Paramour Goes to Jail
Just one day before her seventeenth
birthday and what also may have
been the day of her marriage had not
police officers interfered, Babe Dutro,
pretty Mason City (la.) girl, stood
in police court anJ saw George R.
Flubcr. iy, her paramour and pros
pective husband, sentenced to ninetv
days in the county jail, charged with
vagrancy. Babe, who has confessed
to juvenile court authorities that she
supported lluber for the last six
weeks on money she made, will be re
turned to her parents.
Portugal's Jansul Wants
Representative in Omaha
"This country has 1,500,000 Portu
guese, 000.000 of whom arc in Cali
fornia," staled J. Dc 1'. Soares, consul
,.f Portugal, with offices in Chicago.
Mr. Soarcs is in Omaha to arrange
fr.r a vice ron;.l for thij territory.
He slated there arc seven-ern Portu
guese publications in this country.
DON'T QUIT Others have had hard going and still they got to the top. Nelson was a little
one-armed, one-eyed shrimp, who became seasick as soon as he stepped aboard his ship. Yet
that didn't stop him from winning at Trafalgar. Beethoven was deaf, but his music lives for
ever. Milton was blind, but instead of repining he wrote "Paradise Lost." So stop pitying
yourself and start plugging.
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RUSSIANS ADVANCE
ALONG TWO FRONTS
Czar's Armies Report Gains
Made in Northern Rou
mania and Galicia.
MUCH ACTIVITY IN WEST
AsMM'Utod Pre.. vr Nummary.
Despite the severity of the weather
reported from nearly all the Euro
pean battlefields, spirited lighting is
taking place in several of the war
areas.
The inost noticeable recent devel
opment is on the northern end of
the Roumanian line, where the Rus
sians took the offensive on Saturday
and broke through the Austro-Ger-man
lines on a two-mile front along
the railway from Kimpolung to Ja
cobeni. According to today's German
official statement the Russian forces
have been unable to make further
progress.
The Russians are also on the offen
sive in the Zlota Lipa region in Gali
cia, where their campaign for Lem
berg came to a pause sortie months
ago. Turkish troops apparently are
the main defenders of the central
power's line in this region and Ber
lin declares that they have been suc
cessful in beating off the assaults.
The Franco-Belgian front is also
breaking into activity at many points.
Berlin reports persistent efforts by
the French to recapture their lost
positions at Hill .304, northwest of
Verdun. A surprise attack which
failed was followed by three assaults,
but these arc declared all to have
broken down without gain.
The British front in France is also
a lively sector. The reported capture
by the British late last week of an
important position near Lc Transloy
was followed yesterday by fresh as
saults delivered by British troops
north of Armentieres. These failed
with severe losses, according to Ber
lin, while southwest of Lc Transloy
the Germans captured a British post.
Record Price Paid on
This Market for Feeders
Native Nebraska feeders sold on
the South Omaha market yesterday
for $10 per hundred, the highest price
ever paid on this market. H. E. Wil
liams of Gothenburg was in yesterday
with the five loads, which averaged
a little over 1,100 pounds, from white
faced bulls and short horn cows, all
raised on Mr. Williams' 90 Ranch at
Gothenburg. They were sold by the
Lew Bick Commission company to
Benton, Van Sant & Lush for an
Iowa feeder.
Virginia Asks Supreme Court for
Mandamus Against West Virginia
Washington, Jan. 1'). Mandamus
proceedings were begun today in the
supreme court by Virginia authori
ties against West Virginia's entire
legislative assembly to compel levy
ing of a tax to pav the supreme court
judgment of $12.'.WJ.(KKI. wiih inter
est, adjudged to be West Virginia's
proportion of the Virginia state debt
in 1X61, when West Virginia was
formed.
Papers in the extraordinary pro
ceeding, without precedent in Amer
ican jurisprudence, were received by
the court, but no action was taken to
day. A ruling is expected next Mon
day, and if Virginia is given leave to
tile the mandamus suit. West Vir
ginia probably will be given time to
show cause why a writ should not be
issued. Reopening of the case may
result, as West Virginia has offset
claims it desires to present.
Virginia's pctilieii, presented today
Law is Proposed to
Protect Appendices
Pierre, S. D., Jan. 29. South Da
kotans will be protected from un
scrupulous practitioners, who diag
nose any illness as appendicitis and
then perform an operation,
under a bill prepared for in
troduction in the state legislature.
This bill would require that all
appendices removed in operations
be sent to the state laboratory for
examination. These appendices,
after being examined, would then
be returned to their respective
"owners," together with a certifi
cate showing their condition. In
the event an appendix was not dis
eased the "owner" would be re
lieved of any liability for payment
for the operation, under the bill.
Coopers in Packing
Plants Strike for
Increase in Wages
Demanding a wage increase of 6
cents, an hour, 300 coopers employed
at the South Side packing plants went
out on a strike at 12 o'clock noon
yesterday.
The coopers are now paid a wage
of 34 cents an hour. They are de
manding 40 cents an hour.
The packers refused to concede the
demands so the coopers dcclarfd the
walkout.
About sixty coopers are employed
in each of the big South Side plants,
Armours, Swifts, Cudahys' and Mor
ris. All of these went out on the
strike, leaders say, in addition to
those in the smaller plants.
General Pershing's
Vanguard Is Forty
Miles From Border
LI Paso, Jan. 29. American expedi
tionary troops were moving toward
Ojo Kcdcrico, forty miles from the
border, late today, according to pas
sengers arrived here today from Co
lumbus. The general review of the expedi
tionary force at Palomas lakes, on
the Mexican side of the boundary
line, will probably occur Sunday, it
was said, after which the troops will
proceed across the border to Colum
bus. Mormon leaders here sent an urgent
appeal today to all Mormon residents
of western Chihuahua to leave for
the border before the last of the
expeditionary troops left Colonia
I Dublan.
by Attorney General Pollard and oth
ers, charges that West Virginia is
temporizing in respect to the su
preme court's decree, given in 1915,
and does not intend to provide for
payment of the judgment within the
near future. Therefore, the court is
asked to order the West Virginia
senate and house of delegates forth
with, and at the present session of
the legislature, to a tax upon the
property within West Virginia suffi
cient to provide for the payment of
the decree and judgment, with in
terest. As an alternative the petition asks
that the present legislature issue
bonds to meet the Virginia judgment.
The supreme court refused over a
year ago to issue a writ of execution
for attachment of West Virginia
property in satisfaction of its judg
ment, withholding action until after
the meeting of the present legislature.
TRAIN CRAWLING
THROUGH DRIFTS
Union Pacific Officials Pessi
mistic as to Lifting of
Snow Blockade,
FEAR AN ABSOLUTE TIEUP
Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 29. Four
inches of new snow and a high wind
again completely blockaded transcon
tinental traffic on the Union Pacific
lines in Wyoming tonight.
Efforts of hundreds of workmen to
keep cuts clear of snow were futile,
and officials say the immediate out
look for improvement was bad.
Cheyenne. Wyo., Jan. 29. Union
Pacilic trains were boring westward
through a heavy snow storm early
tonight, but officials of that road were
pessimistic as to lifting the blockade
which has gripped the road intermit
tently for the last six days.
Over a seventy-five-niile stretch
fronv Bosler to Walcott there was
heavy wind and much snow. The
snow was reported to be drifting.
Railroad officials said trains two
and three days late reached Ogden
today. Six west bound trains were
moving and eight were being held at
Laramie.
Eight east bound trains waiting at
Rawlins, four, twenty-four hours late,
were at Hanna, and four others, also
a day behind, were back of a snow
plow at Medicine Bow, but were to
start eastward when all the west
hound traffic had passed that point.
In view of high winds, railroad of
ficials feared the blockade would be
come absolute once more tonight.
Salt Lake Without Mail.
Salt Lake City, Jan. 29. Salt Lake
City has been without mail from the
east since last Thursday and business
firms of this city have suffered losses
as the consequence. Rising prices in
foodstuffs also have been noted due
to the lack of freight shipments.
Potatoes are selling at 65 cents a
peck, the highest price on record here.
Railroad officials declare that the
snow blockade has been broken and
that eight trains carrying mail will
arrive here early tonight.
Divorce Bill Will Bar
Early Remarriage
Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 28. (Spe
cial.) That Wyoming soon will have
a divorce law which, while removing
the present prohibition against the
marriage in this state of any persons
from another state who have been di
vorced within a year, effectually will
prevent Wyomingites from marrying
within one year of the hearing of a
divorce action, is indicated by the atti
tude of the legislature to senate file
No. 10, providing that a decree of
divorce shall not issue until one year
has elapsed after the trial of the
cause. The bill, which was on second
reading in the house Saturday, is with
out opposition.
Germs Not Circulated by
Library and School Books
Baltimore, Md Jan. 29. The the
ory that disease germs find lodgment
in much-handled library and school
books is disproved by tests made by
Dr. C. A. Laubach, bacteriologist of
Johns Hopkins university. He took
150 bonks from homes in which diph
theria had existed and seventy-hve
books from a public library that had
been incirculation for many years
among children in whose homes sani
tary conditions are known lo be bad.
The books were swabbed with sterile
cotton in such manner as to gather
all germs. In no instance could the
diphtheria baccilus be isolated from
the books and the bacteria collected
were of the kind usually found in the
BANKER DENIES
JOINT DEAL WITH
TREASURY HEAD
Pliny Fisk Says He Had No In
terest in Stock Account
With McAdt or Any
Senator.
KNOWS NOTHING OF LEAK
Asked McAdoo to Lease Of
fices in His Bank for Fed
eral Reserve Branch.
WHITE'S CHARGE FALSE
New York, Jan. 29. Archibald S.
White, testifviug before the "leak"
committee today, denied Thomas W.
Lawson's charges that "White told
him Pliny Fisk had boasted to him
about his alleged control of Secretary
McAdoo. v
"It's all romance." White declared.
"I never mentioned Fisk's name to
Lawson.
He said he had seen the ambas
sador in New York a number of
times in October, November and De
cember of last year. He was asked if
he had ever arranged a meeting dc
tween Lawson and County von Bern
sorff. "No, I did not arrange such a
meeting," he replied. "Mr. Sweeney,
Lawson's confidential secretary, asked
me to make such an arrangement and
I said 'make your own arrangements I'
That was about two years ago."
"Are you sure it was not more re
cent?" "It may have been a year and a half
ago."
White said he did not know whether
the meeting ever took place.
New York, Jan. 29. A sweeping de
nial of all of Thomas W. Lawson's
charges against him, particularly his
alleged association with Secretary
McAdoo in Wall street deals, were
made today before the "leak" inves
tigation committee by Pliny Fisk of
Harvey Fisk & Sons, New York bank
ers. '
Among the categorial denials made
by Fisk were that he never had a joint
Wall street account with McAdoo and
a "senator O.," that he had told Archi
bald White or anyone else that he
controlled Secretary McAdoo and had '
offered to call him out of bed at an
early morning hour to answer a tele
phone call-and that he had received
any advance information regarding
President Wilson's recent peace note.
Asked if his firm had ever enjoyed
any advantages in transaction with
th TtMrtifv rifTarttntitFliAk renlirH
negatively. He admitted that after
suggesting to Secretary McAdoo that
offices in a building his firm owned
would be suitable for the federal re
serve bank he had leased the offices to
the government.
McAdoo Former Customer.
"Have you ever purchased, or
caused to be purchased, in the last
four years, any securities in which
Secretary McAdoo was interested?"
(Continued an I'ace Three, Column Foot.)
Two Birth Control
Propagandists Are
Placed On Trial
New York, Jan. 29. Interest in the
efforts of the birth control propagan
dists to spread their doctrines shifted
today from the Blackwell's Inland
workhouse, where Mrs. Ethel Byrne
is conducting a hunger strike, to the
special session court in Brookly- and
the trial of Mrs. Byrne's sister, Mrs.
Margaret Sanger, and Miss Fania
Mondcll.
Mrs. Sanger and Miss Mondcll are
charged with aiding in the conduct of
a birth control clinic, the same offence
for which Mrs. Byrne is serving a
thirty-day sentence. '
It was announced that 500 mothers
from that part of Brooklyn where
Msr. Sanger's birth control clinic was
situated would accompany her to
court pushing their children in baby
carriages.
Commissioner of Correction Lewis
said that Mrs. Byrne's general physi
cal condition was good and that she
now made no resistance to the feeding
process.
Three Passengers Are
Killed and Score Injured
Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 29. Three
passengers were killed and more than
a score injured, two probably fatally,
when a St. Louis Southwestern en
gine collided with the rear car of a
Kock Island passenger train, cast
bound from Little Rock, Ark., late
last night, in a dense fog at Mounds,
Ark., near here. According tp per
sons aboard the wrecked train, the
engine, running as an "extra," bore
down on the passenger train while it
was standing at Mounds, a flag sta
tion, and plowed its way into the
rear coach, causing it to telescope
the car ahead.
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