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Show INTO DEATH'S JAWS. A Tassmgrr Train .SuJJmiIj llnrled Through a Drauliride at Oakland, Cjlifornla. LOSS OF MANY UVES: SOME NARROW ESCAPES. The Accident Caused by the Kerp- cr'j Delaj In Closing the Ilridjr. A HEAVY FLOOD AT ARCADIA, WISCONSIN. The Texas Snriu? Palace at Fort ttorlh Illolted Out bj lire. Bj Ttlrcripb to Ui Mnl iii:.vtii u.vtiic nvn. A I'rlslitrut IlallroadArcliIrnt Or. enn lu California. Sax FkaCisco, llaj SO. One of (lie most horrible railn ay accidents ever known in California occurred at 1:10 o'clock this afternoon, when a local train connecting at Oakland 1th the ferry hoata from San Francisco Fran-cisco w ent through the oin drawbridge draw-bridge over San Antonio creek at Webster Street, Oakland. A yacht had jut iiax-ed through Uie draw when the train arnica red, Roing in thediriY.tIou of Alameda. Thedraw-bridge Thedraw-bridge ktrjier endeavorMl to clotu the bridge, but was too late, and the engine, with tender and the first car, which was tilled with iaen-geri", iaen-geri", nluugul Into the estuary. PngiueerSatii Duuuand Fireman O'ISrien Wtuit don n with the eiigl ne. The former, when he saw thai the bridge did not elite, reverwd the lever, but the momentum uf the engine en-gine was Lw sreatto tietuiird In time. The weight of theciigiiienud firt car broke tliu cuuliugH ami left the other two cars of the train standing nu the track. The M-coml car ran alicxitathird of the way actcb the bridge awl topi-iI, but the )ir was Millliiciit to break oiien the front of the car, and many of the paivcngen uere thrown into the water. Tiielirtt or, which had fallen to the bottom of THK MUDDY ESTUAKY, ooon rose, and such of the jotsen-ger jotsen-ger as had c$caicd thenfrom were deked up bj the yachts and small boats which gathered at the scene. The train men and rest of the tiseiicr w eut to aid in the work of rescue, and when the wrecking train arrived from Oiklaml the car nasdrawu into shallou uattrand small loats had begun dragging the erevk for bodies. The top of the passenger coach was cut ojeu as soon as ituas raised almve water, and the work of removing re-moving the todies commtnod, thliteeu being taken out iu quick succession. At tliu morgue the todies were laid out as soou as received to await identification, and heait-rendlng scenes were witnessed as friends caniu forward to claim the diad. The IMof identilieJ isas follow f: Martin Ki lly, Oakland; A. K. Austin, Aus-tin, S.111 Francisco; Mi.s Fli.niue Austin, Mrs. Ilyron 0'Coni.or, San Francisco; J. Jk Irwin, Oakland; E. iL rtjbiiison, Sjii Francistxi; Captain John Payer, Sacramento; Mr. Williams Sail Kranclx-u; II. W. Auid (colored), Honolulu; the to Misses ICt1.i1.111, S.iu Francisco; aJananesu boy, sup osed to be 11. Malirta, San Franci-co. The ciigineer and fireman Inth escaped. Tlie exierii-nce of the lasseugers in the tlrst ixiarh, as related re-lated by those whu fortunately s-catcd, s-catcd, was IlOItltltTl.MJ l THE EXTKKJIi:. K.F.Mnley bfSan Frauclx-o said: "I was on the front seat faring the engine. Ju't as we aiprnached tlie drawbridge It seemed to me that the draw was open and a fearful fear-ful accident was ineviublc. Just then a man jumped from the engine into the waur, then came the crash. A horrible cnisiiing of timlinand snapping of the heavy lronwork follow til, and at once con-st.ruatIon con-st.ruatIon prevailed iu the car. The nut thing I know tlie car in the water and I Mind niyclf groping for tlie door, which I fortunately for-tunately reached when tiiat end of tlie car ro-e out of the water, ami quite a number of people escaped in this manner, principally women and children. The car was about two-thirds full when we left, the wharf, and I should judge there were about alout tueiity-tive to thirty eople in it. There was ufe-irful outcry when the carliean to fall, but this was almost immediately immedi-ately hushed in one long final wail of despair. George T. Hawley, of Oakland, said there were alioiit forty tnple, Including children, iu the car. Conductor Con-ductor I'erath said the first car was a combination. When tlie disaster o.-curred lie was iu the rear car and had as much as he could 1:0 for a few moments attend to the !$-sengersin !$-sengersin that car, some cf whom were in -V STATK OP FKE3CZY. lie thtn went forward anil looked dow 11 011 the Hi tie of death. He noticed at leat half a dozen ineiisuiin out. but not any women orchildrtu. He is not surua'oul thcuunuVrofiicopIcin theciiaih. Janus Duulap, the bridge tu.der, had nothing to say, further than that he had opened the bridge for a yacht and was Just dosing it when the train came along. Several of the passengers who Kent down but were rescued sustained sus-tained jaiiiful injuries. The frame of the car has been raised and the bed of the creek thoroughly explored, ex-plored, and it Is lelieved there are no more todies in the wreck. Cou-rvatie estimates thLs evening eve-ning place the number of enple In the c-ir at alout thirty, ami it is believed be-lieved that the thirteen Ivdics re covered comprise the list of the dead. Thousands of .oplo flocked to the scene of thedLsastiraud the streeLs leading to the bridgu are crowded by hurrying mm, women and childrin. The wildest rumors of tiie extent of loss of lid. weru circulated and many people n eut across fro.n Stu Fiaucisco to look for friends. When the new cf tlie disaster reached Mountain View Cemetery, win re hundreds uf Oakland (people were, decorating graves, a lauie was created aud men, women and children chil-dren ru-hed into town, leaving all tluirtlonil tributes liehind thrm. The engineer aud fireman disappeared disap-peared right after Uie accident and liavo not yit been found, so their version of the accident is not obtainable. obtain-able. TIih bridge-tender maintains tonight that ho had the ml danger flag up. Trains approach the bridge around a curve, aud it is inscibls tbat the engineer did not see the flag. llorstblclrs autl Cillzena. San Axtosio, Tex., May SO. In a battle near Austin last night between horsetliieves and a posse of citizens George lirakemaon, one of tbe thieves, was killed and his brothtr Frank captured. Several otheig of the gang were woundi-d, buliscapcd. |