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Show TERRIBLE WRECK AVERTED Engineers Saw Each. Other Coming Just in Time. MARTS VILLE. Cal.. Aup. 19. Two crowded Oregon trains ivero in colllolon at Lomo, n elding ulx miles above. Marynvllle. early this mornlnff and li serious accident was narrowly averted. Trainmen on tho nouthtound train claimed when they arrived hero a few minutes after the accident that they had orders to meet the-northbound the-northbound train at Lomo. and tho northbound train had orders to meet tho other train at Live Oak. nevornl miles lioyond Lomo. Owlnu to tho fact that tho southbound trnln' was slowing down to mako the sldlnir, and thu track for n long tllntnnco was etralcht, allowing allow-ing tho nnglueers to bug tho npiiroachlng headlights, head-lights, a terrible dl."Uhtcr was averted. The pilots and front emlti of bo.th engines wcro badly dumiRed by the forco of tho collision, but tho Jar to tho coaches on elthor train was felt by but few passengers. Tho enKlncers saved the trains by rovcrMnu tho engines and had almost succeeded In stopping when they camo together. |