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Show DEATH DUE TO WRECK . BAN FRANCISCO. Oct 20. Passenger Passen-ger train No. 3, the westbound express on the Southern Pacific railroad, came in collision today with the rear end of a stock train at Tuba Pass, near Cisco station, in 'Placer county, California. No one was injured, but the accident caused a fire which destroyed the caboose ca-boose and four cars of the stock train, seriously damaging the engine of the passenger train and burned the express and baggage earn. The fire communicated communi-cated to the snow sheds, which were consumed con-sumed for a distance of 2200 feet. Shortly after the accident. R. J. Laws, superintendent of the Sacramento division divi-sion of the Southern Pacific, who was on the passenger .train, dropped dead, presumably from. . heart disease, with which he had been afflicted for some time. . He wad one of the best-known railroad men on the Pacific coast. |