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Show ' OPEN SWITCH; M KILLED Sunset Express Meets Disaster in California, Twenty-six Lives Being Lost. Trainmen Left Switch Open and the Heavily Laden Train Is Derailed While Running Forty Miles n Hour Three Men Are Arrested. Colton, Cal Ono of tho most disastrous disas-trous wreck In tho history of thn Houlhern Pacific occurred ono and a half miles cast of thla town Thursday-when Thursday-when westbound train Nu. 9, from. Now Orleans for Han Francisco, ran lain nn open switch whllo Kolng at the rate of forty mile nn hour, and ten of the fourteen niacin wcrn derailed de-railed wtlh frightful results Twon-t) Twon-t) six persons nro known tn havo been killed and tba final list will prubably show more than this number Tho Injured In-jured number 100, many of whom will die The wrecked omche wcro hurled In every direction Four of them wcro smssbtd to fragtiit.nl. Moat uf tho dead wcro Italian from Now York nnd New Orleans gnlng to Han Frnn-clco Frnn-clco They occupied the smoker and ilny coach Tho derailment of thu train wa caused by thu crew or n switch en-ulno en-ulno leaving a switch open al this IKilnt. U It Alvord. W K. Dnvls nnd J (1 (luoscnmc)er, member ot tho switching switch-ing crew who aro accused ut leaving-Ihe leaving-Ihe switch oH-n nnd causing tho-wreck, tho-wreck, were taken into ruitody and held In $1.1)00 hall hy Coroner Vsn Wye |