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Show A DASTAEDLY DEED. An Incendiary Sets Fire to Snow Sheds in California IN FOUR DIFFERENT PLACES. The Flames Are Sow Under Control. Though 2100 Feet of Sheds and Tract Were Destroyed, But o Trains Can Bun Until the Tracks Are Laid. Blue Canyon, Cal., Sept. 12. Fire broke out in snow sheds at Summit at 10 o'clock last night. The Summit fire train, while fighting the flames, became completely on fire and had to be abandoned. The engine and water cars burned up. The Blue Canyon water train was rushed to the front, and while battling the flames a new fire started west of the train and for a time there was imminent danger that this train would burn. The fires were' started at four different points, evidently by an incendiary who was traveling west from the summit. A water train from Rocklin was sent ud early this morning. Tie flames are' now under control, but nothing can. be done toward laying a newtrjtvfe.xiuli! the fire dies out. Passenger trains Nos. 4 and 2 iie at -TrocKee, and Nos.1-'!" and . 3". of yesterday are whewsi.r-'Five ' hundred workmen have been shipped from Truckee with ties and rails and the work will be pushed with all possrVie rapidity. Twenty-one Twenty-one hundred feet of shed.-t aud tracks are destroyed. The company has done repairing old rails this summer with new seventy-six-ponnd steel rails, and the old rails can be replaced re-placed temporarily if necessary. The passengers pas-sengers at this point are being well fed and cared for. Assistant Superintendent Jones with five cars of ties went up from Sacramento Sacra-mento this morning. |