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Show train plunge takesj Lives DEL MAR. Cal., Jaij 1 UP) Three trainmen were killed Tuesday' Tues-day' ni ;ht as the lecomotive and 17 can of a lightly loaded Santa Fe freight train plunged over a 150-foot embankment and onto the beach ne-ha!f mile south of here. The engine piled up at the foot of the cliff, but eight Cars catapulted cata-pulted over It into the ocean. Nine other cars crashed In a heap above the loomotlve. In which the bodies of the three victims were trapped. The deid: Glen A. Dunham, the engineer; C. W. 'Valdon, fireman; !I. A. Williams, Wil-liams, head brakeman, all of Los Angele i. . Darkness hampered wrecking crews dispatched here from Los Angele i and San Diego. Railroad official i said it was doubtful if the line co ild be opened for 24 hours. The San Diegan, a two-section stream iner bound from Los Angeles An-geles to San Diego with many passenger), pas-senger), was halted here. Buses .took tr e passengers on south. - Preliminary investigation Indicated Indi-cated ' hat a section of fill, possibly pos-sibly weakened by recent rains, had co lapsed, sending the locomotive locomo-tive p unging through lapreading rails. Two other trainmen on the 40-car reight escaped wijh bruises. |