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Show ,:"'.."' TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. ''.: . San Francisco, May 30' One of ttW mcnt . horrible railway accidents ever . "known in California occurred at 1:40 o'clock this atternoon when a local train connecting con-necting at Oakland with the ferry boats from-ban Francisco went through the-open draw-bridge ever San Antonia creek at Webster street, Oakland. A yacht had just passed through the . draw when the train appeared, going in the direction of Alameda, The draw-bridge keeper endeavored to close the bridge but was too late, and tlie engine, with the tender and first car. which was tilled with passengers. plupyed into the estuar. Engineer bam l)unn and r'ireinan O'Hrien wont down with the engine. - he former, when he saw that the bridge did not close, reversed the lever, but the momentum oi the engine was too great to be stopped in time. he weight ot the ougineaud first car broke -the coaplings and left the other two-cars ot the train standing on the track. Xhc second car ran a third of the way across the bridge and stopped, but the jnr wissfulicient to break open the front ol the car, aud many of .the passengers were thrown into the watet. The Sm car which had fallen with the engine to the bottom ot tho muddy estuarv. soon rose and such of the oassengers as had escaped herefrom were picked up by yachts and small boats which fathered t the socne. Ihe train men and the rest of the passengers went to aid the work of rescue and when wrecking train arrived from Oakland the car was drawn into, shallow water, and small boats began to drag the creek tut bodies. The top of the passenger ooach was wit open as .soon as it was raised above the water, and the work of removing re-moving bodies commenced, thirteen bein? taken out ia quick succession. At the morgue, the bodies were iaiu out as soon as received, 10 await idootitication.and heart-rending scenes were witnessed u friends .came j forward to claim their dead. ' |