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Train crashes into home

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4 Hurt As Train Crashes Into Home

BLOOMINGTON, Md. (AP) -- A coal train derailed Sunday morning near the Maryland-West Virginia border, sending one of its cars plowing into a house and raining coal and debris on the five people who lived there. One woman was seriously injured and her teen-age son was missing, state police said.

Scores of rescue workers with dogs continued searching through spilled coal, rubble and heavy snow Sunday evening for the missing boy, State Police Cpl. David Broadwater said.

Thirty-six of the train's 80 cars, all carrying coal, derailed shortly after 6:30 a.m., CSX spokesman Gary Wollenhaupt said.

At least one rail car crashed into the two-story wooden house, which was pushed 25 feet off its foundation.

The cause of the derailment was not immediately determined.

Rescue workers extricated Libby A. Holstein, 35; her daughter Brandy N. Holstein, 18; Eugene F. Liller, 32; and his daughter Amanda M. Liller, 13. Mrs. Holstein was in serious condition at Cumberland Memorial Hospital. State police said the others were not seriously injured.

The two crew members on the train were not hurt.

The train was traveling from Grafton, W.Va., to Cumberland.

AP-NY-01-30-00 1828EST

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