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Show FIRK NEAR DYNAMITE. Train Crews Eravely Fight Both Dangers. Oakland. Ca!., May 23. A train of box cars, laden with merchandise, including in-cluding a large quantity of dynamite and black powder, caught fire last night in the railroad yards here. There was a scarcity of rvater, and, though facing almost certain death, the firemen and train hands coupled the cars to switch engines, and, drawing them under the tank used for filling the boilers of locomotives, succeeded in extinguishing ex-tinguishing the flames before an explosion explo-sion occurred. The roof of a car containing' several tons of dynamite was burned through. |