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 * TROLLEY CRASH VICTIMS            |
 * The Killed                  |
 * Muckly, Mrs. Theresa, 47 years, cook,    |
 * 1916 Flushing Avenue.                  |
 * Flesner, Jacob, 26 years, machinist,     |
 * 2717 Hawthorn Street.                  |
 * Block, Marie, 16 years, cash girl, 616   |
 * Parkway.                               |
 * The Injured                 |
 * Claxton, Mary, 10 years, 1414 Cedar      |
 * Street, broken nose, scalp wounds,     |
 * St. Mary's Hospital.                   |
 * Shumacher, Mrs. Ida, 42 years, 191       |
 * 12th Avenue, right arm broken, internal |
 * injuries, St. Mary's Hospital.         |
 * Perkins, Charles, 31 years, 157 Washington|
 * Street, dislocated hip, scalp          |
 * cut, Roosevelt Hospital.               |
 * Street, dislocated hip, scalp          |
 * cut, Roosevelt Hospital.               |

Three passengers were killed, three seriously injured, and a dozen more badly shaken up when a south bound trolley car on the Wellington Park line crashed into one ahead that had stopped to take in passengers, at Fifty-second Avenue and Howard Place last night.

The Body of the Story. Following the lead is the body of the story, which generally consists of a more or less detailed account of the event. The main part of the report usually presents the incidents in the order in which they took place. In choice and arrangement of particulars, therefore, it does not differ from narration in general. As in all narration, so in news stories, it is essential to pick out those particulars that are most interesting and most significant in relation to the feature of the news. If the details are arranged in chronological order and this order is made evident by means of connective words and phrases, the reader can follow the account easily from beginning to end.

All of the methods used by writers of fiction to make