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Show WEIGHT OF ENGINE CAUSED THE WRECK Experts Think Rail Was Made, to ,. Slide Toward Precipice on the Coast Line. SANTA BARBARA, June 2. The cause of the terrible train WTeck on the Coast line of the Southern Pacific on Saturday night In which forty people were injured has been determined with some degree of certainty. According to the opinion of expert engineers who have made a close inspection of the road bed at that point the weight of the locomotive caused the rail to slide toward the precipice. For a distance of half a mile the embankment em-bankment was strengthened by a curbing of railroad ties to a depth of about four feet from the surface. This was done as a precaution against a possible washout, as the surf as high tide dashes against the foot of the embankment, at one point being not more than two feet away. On the inner side of the track there is a precipitous pre-cipitous cliff along which at Intervals covering a distance of a mile or more there are curves of low per cent. All of the Injured are showing remarkable remark-able improvement today. Even Mrs. H. C. Smith, who was so horribly crushed and who was given up by the physicians, is recovering and this afternoon was taken to Los Angeles. |