Show BAD WRECK ON SP V Six Cars Roll Down Cliffto Surf of Ocean I ACCIDENT UNUSUAL ONE I I Railroad Officials Are Unde < bided as to Ctusi 1 t Thlrfcy0no of the Wounded Are J1 5 Hospitals at Santa Barbara Two Will Die Santa Barbara Gal May 11n the disastrous wreck of the southbound coast limited on the Southern Pacific last night at Punta Gorda fifteen miles I east of this city more than fifty persons per-sons were injured two probably fatally fa-tally Mr H C Smith of Los Angeles An-geles will probably dia from her scvera Injuries and Frank Christmas a Bart Francisco traveling man is in n serious I condition He i suffering from inter 1 nal Injuries a well n external cuts and bruises VICTIMS IN HOSPITALS I I Fifteen of the victims are at the Cottage Cot-tage hospital in this city thirteen are at local hospitals three at Ventura and a score of others whoso injuries were II not serious proceeded to Lds Angeles on the special train gent out from that city last night WRECK AN UNUSUAC ONE The wreck was f most unusual ona and railroad officials are undecided as I to its cause The train was running about 40 miles an hour on a straight track when the cars left the rails Tho roadbed was in firstclass condition and the rails were of the new 80pound variety va-riety The track was torn up for l distance ot an eighth of a mile I IB supposed that the rails spread although Engineer Cure doe not credit this theory He asserts that ho felt a severe Jar when the engine passed over the spot where the cars left the rails Ho applied the airbrakes Instantly and tho train was brought to a stop quickly CARS PLUNGE OVER CLIFF The three rear conches the parlor car the diner and 3 chair car left tho rails I and rolled down the steep cliff to the surf of the ocean Immediately below A fourth coach was dragged to the edge of the embankment where It broke loose and hung on the brink of the precipice The parlor and dining cars turned completely com-pletely over twice and landed In an upright up-right position at the edge of the ocean Every window In the derailed cars was broken The seats were wrenched from their fastenings and otherwise wrecked Fortunately however the framework coaches held together To of the heavy caches toethe1 this fact is due the escape of the passengers pass-engers from death PHYSICIANS ARRIVE I The confusion that followed the plunge J of the cars to the ocean beach was tremendous J tre-mendous Those who were able to crawl from the windows and drop to the sandy beach quickly went to the aid of the injured The forward part of the train was brought to a stop quickly quick-ly and returned to the scene A score 1 of physicians were summoned and the relief took them to the wreck j The physicians found about 40 persons per-sons lying on the sandy beach and on the embankment above the wrecked J cars Their hurts were dressed and the cars most severely injured carried Into tho II j car and brought to this city |