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Show 101 Injured, Many Seriously; Trains Crash at Siding ' LOS ANCELES, Sept. 20 (U.R) Ten persons were killed today and 101 persons injured, some so seriously they may die, when the Southern Pacific's Argonaut crashed through a switch and plunged into the Califoinian, which was waiting with its sleeping passengers on a siding on the Mojave desert near the little town of Niland. The Southern Pacific said a preliminary investgiation indicated that Eris L. Jacobson, head-on brakesman of the 5- road cars, with people pinned inside. in-side. "One elderly woman was caught there, uninjured but calling for help. ' They had to use acetlyene torches to cut her out. "Uninjured passengers pinned inside the coaches were screaming. scream-ing. Rescuers were using acetylene acety-lene torches to cut the steel of the cars and free them." Two wrecking trains, one from Indlo to the west of the wreck, and the other from Yuma, Ariz., reached the scene shortly after 10 a. m., and began lifting the engines en-gines and cars back on the track to clear the line for traffic. Californian, an eastbound train was responsible for the wreck. The Argonaut was westbound from New Orleans. The dead: Mrs. Florence Tatol, Rhineback, N. Y. Miss Ryvia Easter, Los Angeles, who died in Indio hospital. Mrs. Sorrells, Tucson, Ariz., who was killed while sleeping with her two-months-old son. Mrs. Emma . Hall, Loma Linda, California, Mrs. G. A. Hull, Loma Linda, California. C. E. Morton, fireman of the California!!. Robert N. Richardson, engineer of the Argonaut. II. R. Parsons, fireman of the Argonaut. Two unidentified women, one a 14-year-old girl. Forty-six of the injured were taken to the Coachella Valley hospital hos-pital at Indio. Relief trains took 55 other injured passengers to the Yuma general hospital, near Yuma, Arizona. The dead trainmen wore C E. Morton, engineer of the Californian; Californ-ian; Robert N. Richardson, engineer engi-neer of the Argonaut and H. R. Parsons, fireman of the Argonaut. One mail clerk was missing. Two other mail clerks, badly injured, in-jured, were removed from wreckage wreck-age of a mail car. Undamaged sections of the Californian Cali-fornian were taken to Indio filled with injured, accompanied by nurses and physicians recruited from nearby communities. More injured were taken to Yuma, Ariz, in undamaged cars of the Argonaut. Ar-gonaut. J. H. Dyer, vice president of the railroad and a passenger aboard the Argonaut, said the Californian, waiting on siding for the Argonaut to pass en route westward to Los Angeles was east-bound east-bound from Los Angeles to Chicago. Chi-cago. He said the Argonaut suddenly sud-denly jumped the tracks and crashed into the Californian. Six of those killed were in one car on the Californian. All passenger pas-senger cars of the Argonaut were left intact on the track, Dyer said. The engineer of the Californian was not killed. It was believed he had left the locomotive before the Argonaut collided with the Californian. ' The locomotives and baggage cars of both trains had left the tracks. Dr. A. H. Foster of Brawley, Cal., who answered an emergency call to go to the scene of the Wreck, said: "It was terrible. It was the worst thing I ever saw. "It was a big jam-up of rail- |