Show MIN KILLS sacramento SHORT LINE TRAIN telescopes HEAVY STREET TRAIN erly early morning passengers Pac are plowed to death as train walts waits signal to proceed on way oakland calr cal eight persons were killed and approximately forty injured on the key route system when a train from sacramento crashed into the rear of a crowded electric train bound from twelfth twelfth street oakland to san francisco with early morning commuters the cause of the accident has not been determined five of the injured are beloved to lo be dying one of the dead was identified as C C 45 second street san francisco another of the dead was identified as fred J gibson 63 a marine engineer living on goat island in san francisco bay he died in the oakland emergency emere ency hospital the accident happened a few minutes after 8 the three car key system train included what is known as the broadway special and the twelfth street local these cars were crowded with commuters bound for san francisco the train had stopped on a block signal about midway on the three mile oakland pier it had bad hardly paused when the sacramento short line train empty except for the trainmen crashed full speed into the rear of the commuters train the short line train containing a tingle single car had been a few hundred yards behind the key route train it telescoped the rear key route car for about half its length the front end of the short line car was demolished its conductor and motorman had bad not been accounted tor for several hours after the collision the key route train had bad the type known as side door cars or those without front or rear exits hence it was necessary to breal break a way with axes to rescue the passengers the regular exits had been closed for the I 1 trip trig across the pier S some me victims were flung bodily aroi the train and were found lying on the ground of the fill beside the track others were pinned in hopelessly until the rescuers reached them none of the cars of the twelfth street train was nas derailed soon after the accident the two front cars were detached from the rear car that was telescoped and were started for the mole the motorman fainted soon after the train began to move and passengers ran into the room and stopped the train the motorman soon was revived end and took the train into the mole |