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Show Kniclne Kan Into the Itay. An extra switch engine of the Southern South-ern Pacific company, while standing beneath the coal bunkers in the West Oakland, Cal., yards waiting for a change of crews, was bumped Into by a freight truin nnd the throttle thrown open. The locomotive plunged forward for-ward instuntly and begau a runaway trip through a network of hundreds of side trucks and headed for the West Oakland Mole, where a dozen tralus and '.V'i.XI passengers from dan Francisco Francis-co were waiting to be curried overland to locul points. Hy a fortunate chance the tower man, knowing the engine wus not manned, threw the runuway onto an extreme outside track, thus averting a collision with the stundlng trains or preventing the Iron monster from clashing through the waiting rooms ut tlie ferry depot, crowded with human helm's. The engine attained a speed of thli ty-flve miles nn hour before be-fore il plunged off the end of the tinclt Into the waters of the buy, making n lenp of fully thirty feet. The huge monster now lies buried under twenty feet of wnter. |