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Show I CRASHED INTO STOCK TRAIN. Accident on Southern Pacific "Which Destroys Much Property. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20. Passenger Passen-ger train No. 3, the westbound express on the Southern Pacific railroad, came In collision today with the rear end of a stock train at Y'uba Pass, near Cisco station, in Placer county, California. No one was Injured, but the accident caused a fire which destroyed the caboose ca-boose and four cars of the stock train, seriously damaging the engine of the passenger train and burned the express and baggage cars. The fire communicated communi-cated to the snov sheds, which were consumed con-sumed for a distance of 2200 feet. Shortly after the accident, R. J. Laws, superintendent of the Sacramento division divi-sion of the Southern Pacific, who was on the passenger train, dropped dead, presumably from heart disease, with which he had been afflicted for some time. He was one of the best-known railroad men on the Pacific coast- With Superintendent Laws at tho time of the accident were James Agler, manager of the Southern Pacific, and J. H. Wallace, superintendent of maintenance mainten-ance and way. They were riding In Mr. Agler's private car. |