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Show TRAIN JUMPED TRACK. Shrlners Meet With Terrible Disaster While on Their Way Home.. . Lompoc, Cnl. A terrlbio wreck occurred oc-curred botweon .1 nnd 4 o'clock Saturday Satur-day afternoon on'tho const lino of tho Southern Pacific, flvo miles south of Surf, In which thirty-two of tho pas songors wero killed nnd eighteen or twenty moro wcro seriously Injured. The train wns a special loaded with Shrlners, who. wero on their way from Los Angeles- to their homes In tho cast. Tho train consisted of six coaches. Whllo running nt a high rate of speed n wheel on tho cnglno broko, nnd tho locomotive Jumped tho track and turned over. Four of the front enrs of tho train followed it, and wero llttornlly smashed to pieces. Tho dead and Injured wero thrown In every direction. di-rection. Tho train caught fire Immediately Imme-diately after tho wreck, but It was extinguished ex-tinguished by passengers of tho two rear' coaches, who wore .uninjured. Tho cars wero hurled all over tho englno, nnd many of tho passengers wore burned nnd scalded to death by escaping es-caping steam. Some of them wero mutilated beyond recognition. |