Show I I TEN KILLED IN A TRAIN WRECKI r l H I I I t Rear End Comsion ear Rynon 00 i Sprmgs Cat Resuhs In Awful t Slaughter of Passengers IH I Byron Cal Dec OTen persons were killed and twentyseven Injured In a collision tonight between the southbound Lo > j Angeles owl train and the Stockton flyer It was a rear end collision the engine of the local ploughing Its way through the lost coach on the owl which was filled with Fresno people The passengers who escaped Instant death were hurled to the fore part of the coach crushed In between the mass of debris their Buf ferings and dangers Intensified a hundredfold hun-dredfold by the clouds of scalding steam that poured out on them from the shattered boiler of the Stockton engine engineWAS WAS PROPERLY FLAGGED I Tfie owl left e Oakland mole at about 5 oclock a on the way to this point It was noted That there was a leak In the flue of the engine This Increased to such an extent that It was deemed advisable to stop here to take up a freight engine for relief The train officials knew that No 84 the Stockton local was following a halfhour behind and a flagman was sent back down the track to give warning warn-ing of the presence of the owl to It Is I said that the Stockton train In charge of Engineer Maguire and Fireman Fire-man Joyce got the warning signal In due time and gave the usual re sponge with whistle blasts TRAIN NOT CHECKED Why the Incoming train was not checked however has not been thus far explained the men who could give the facts being numbered among the badly Injured On came the train with apparently scarcely l any diminution of speed and the Fresno couch was completely com-pletely telescoped So forcibly did the I i qw I local 1 meet the roar of the owl thatl 1 the end of the second car tho dlnlng f car was smashed In and nil of the I three cooks were seriously hurt I SPARED FROM FLAME It seems miraculous that the horror k of Or was not added to the direful dls aster but the pennedup victims were I with seemIngly evidential Intervention Interven-tion spared from flame for the oil I burners were extinguished when tho r 1 t crash came RELIEF CAME QUICKLY I Relief came quickly to the passengers I who were penned up In the wreckage axes and saws being brought Into piny I I and pasFengors and crew lending eager aid Messages were sent to Byron Hot I Springs a short distance away and I I i Dr Bird of the Springs with Dr Davidson Da-vidson of Fi eano who was a guest I r came quickly to the station I AID FOR WOUNDED A trained nurse accompanied them > I I and the first aid was given to the mangled 1 l man-gled bruised and scalded sufferers who 1 I were lying near the track Every effort ef-fort was made to alleviate their sufferings I i suffer-ings and those who were unable to proceed on the Journey were taken either to tho Springs hotel or to the 1 church In Byron which was tempor arlly transformed Into a hospital j None of the passengers on No SI were Injured and all of the crew of tho Owl I escaped unhurt j ONE BODY IDENTIFIED Of the ten killed It was possible to I Identify but one person The others were not known to their fellowpassen cars and up to a late hour nothing was found on their persona furnish a clue to their names or residence J The one r among the killed who was Identified was named Clarence duff He lived at Fresno I |