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Show faintly when found,' he expired a. few hours later. None of. the . passengers were seriously injured. . When the boiler exploded the cab was hurled into the station, which was being' passed at .the' time, destroying that structure, and the huge boiler, weighing 100 tonsf snot forward through the air, striking the track ahead more than 300 feet from the spot where .the. -explosion, occurred. 'The empty trucks continued at their fiity-mile-an hour-gait . until the boiler was struck. . This ponderous mass of steel served as a bumper for the swiftly on-rushing- train of Pullman sleepers and tourist cars, and" it was pushed for-i ward tCrougn the gravel and 'ties for twenty feet before the train came, to a stop. The tender, mail car, chair car and two tourist sleepers were derailed, and some of the passengers were slightly slight-ly shaken up, but the last six cars .remained .re-mained on the track, without damage to them or-injury to their occupants. A panic followed the. sudden stopping of the train and it. was with difficulty that women passengers were restrained from jumping headlong into, the ditch. The track was cleared this morning. THREE MEN KILLED BY BOILER EXPLOSION -:' ' . .... : - SAN.JOSEy CU Nev. 12:-rThree teenx-weYVkiltl..n4 . aeTeyJlfperaoris lightly injured by. the xploaion, of the engine of the southbound $nnaet Limited Lim-ited train On the Ronthern'Paciic road, at Sergeant's station last night. ' The tieadr ' '". " " ' JOSEPH GOOPFELLOW, superintendent superin-tendent of the Southern Pacific block svstem. 8AMUEL GILLESPIE, engineer of train: .TAMES BLADON," fireman. - The bodies of -Goodfellow and Gillespie Gil-lespie -were picked up near the-wreck, badly, disfigured,' having been, almost blown into fragments. James Bladon, the fireman, was hurled sixty feet from the station, and although breathing |