Show SLID OVER PRECIPICE Weight of Locomotive Caused the Rails to Spread and the Accident Santa Barbara Cal June L The cau cause causee e ethe It e the terrible train wreck on the coast coastline coastline line ef of the Southern Pacific on Saturday Right knight in which forty people eople were in 10 injured has lias been determined with some ome de do degree del dogre l gree gre e eo ef of f certainty According rd to t ta the opts opinion ion of o expert engineers gl who hat have a e n cde a close cl inspection of the roadbed at that I point JOInt the weight of ot the locomotive caused u ed edthe the rails to slide toward the precipice For a distance of or half halt a mile the em embankment embankment was strengthened by a cribbing If of railroad ties to a depth of about four fur fourt t feet from the surface This was lone done as asa asa asa a precaution against a possible washout I a as the th surf at high Ude dashes against the th foot fO t of the embankment The track I Iwas was laid 1 td very close clese to the edge of the em tom J bank nt at one being not ft more moi than two feet away On the inner laneI side si re I of the track there is a precipitous us cliff along which at intervals covering a die I taice of o a mite mile or more there is a curve i of low percent I All of the Injured are showing remark table I able improvement today Even Mrs H FL C CSmith CI CSmith Smith who vho was ws so horribly crushed crashed and l nd I who Y O was glen given up by the physicians is te recovering and this afternoon was taken i to Los LOSi Angeles |