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WRECKAGE IS'CLEARED FROM MKT RAIL LINE
LONG, RAILRAOD CARS
The job of clearing 16 smashed railroad cars
from the Missouri-Kansas-Texas line north of
Grandview gets underway with restoration of
this afternoon#
service thru the area scheduled foT^ - - - -
The 16 cars were derailed on a
curve in
Johnson county late yesterday* The wreck
blocked the M-K-T mainline between Fort Worth
and Waco and, until late today, traffic was
being routed thru Dallas and Hillsboro.
v whichJ
The wreckytt)re up more than 300 yards of track,
is blamed on a broken
boxcar wheel#
TWO MEN STANDING
Two carlomds of wheat — there were eight loads
on the train — were set afire early this
morning and destroyed. Workmen say the fire was
started by a cutting torch being used to cut one
Altogether,
car free of another.
more than 100-thousand dollars worth of railroad
property was badly battered by the derailment
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