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Show TRAIN IS WRECKED: 2 KILLED 12 Injured When Crack Flier Goes Over Embankment Near Yuma, Arizona; Sudden Sud-den Rainstorm Cause. YUMA, Ariz., Aug. 5 (U.R) Two persons were killed early today' and 12 injured, foul-seriously, foul-seriously, when rain-softened earth gave way beneath the Argonaut, Southern Pacific transcontinental flier, hurling the engine and three cars over a 30-foot embankment 20 niiles cast of here. The dead: D. B. Steyaert, engineer, en-gineer, and J. W. Moser, fireman, crushed beneath the engine. Most seriously injured: Manuel M. Guerrero, passenger, internal" injuries: Lemon Bass, Los Angeles; Joe Hill, 19, Britton, Okla., and James Syas, all negroes. The three men were "beating a ride" in the blind, the small compartment between be-tween the tender and baggage car. Caught between the two telescoping cars, all were badly injured internally, inter-nally, and Hill received a possible fractured skull. Two other negroes, Walter and James Whittear, were riding a "blind" further to the rear and escaped es-caped with slight injuries. Flajrman Thinks Quickly Further tragedy was averted by the action of C. W. Birks, flagman. Knowing two more sections of the same train were following close behind, Birks ran back a quarter of a mile to firm ground and kept watch until he sighted the headlight head-light of the second section and flagged it down. The accident occurred shortly after 2 a. m., when the eastbound flier was 30 minutes out of Yuma. The train rolled into a typical Arizona Ari-zona rainstorm a few minutes before be-fore the catastrophe, and it was attributed at-tributed to the fact that speed was iliminished because of low visibility visibil-ity that more lives were not lost. Every available doctor and nurse in Yuma and vicinity went to the spot by automobile, establishing temporary dressing stations in the desert. The injured who could safely be transported by automobile were taken to hospitals in Yuma. |