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Show SIX DEAD Ai EIFTEEN HURT IN TRAIN CRASH Salt Lake Passenger Derailed in California; Report ln- ; dicates Others Killed BAN BERNARDINO. Cal., Oct. 31. Six bodies hud been removed from thc wreckage of the Salt Lake train I at Vermo. Cal . at midnight and ef-: ef-: forts were beinpr made to reach others. T P. Cullen, superintendent, said early today Thomas Bell, train electrician and baggageman, was the only name anions the dead received here. James I. White, conductor, was said to have been seriously Injured. Mr Mullen said most of the deaths occurred In the dining car. Physicians were said to be attend-the attend-the injured at Yermo. LOS ANGELES, Oct 30 Six are 1 known to have boon killed and fifteen injured in the wreck of the Pacific i limited No. 102 near Yermo. Cal , according ac-cording to a message recStVSd her" tonlnht by Walter H COmstOCK, general gen-eral manager of the Salt Lake Route from fis Ve'ius. .Nevada. The wreck occurred, according to advices received here, while the train J was running at ".( miles an hour up 'a gentle grade and xround a curve on the Mojav desert 168 miles east of here, or thirty miles cast of Karstow. Cal., and one mile east of the station sta-tion of Manix. The reports indicated that all but the two rear coaches left the rails nnd ! t hat Honu of them were telescoped Rescue work was rendered unuausl-I unuausl-I ly difficult beonuye of the isolated I spot where the accident occurred Salt take officials said the roadbed at the scene of the wreck whs as Rood as any in the division, but thai it had recently been re-ballasted at tha'. point, which, they added, lent verlfl tailon to reports from Manlx and Yermo Yer-mo that the rails had spread. A relief train with doctors and1 nurses left Borstow early tonlsht. It also carried a wrecking crew and two ; Pullman cars for the injured. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Oct -One 1 trainman Was killer! in the wreck of t he east bound Pacific overland No. 1 02, near Verm., ten miles eat of Itarstow, CaL, late foday, according to a statement Issued here tonight at the offices of the Salt Kike Route SAX BERNARDINO. Cul.. Oct. 20 Los Angeles Limited of the So It Lake railroad Is reported here to bave left the trut U-i ten miles east of Yermo, on the desert. Reports that several 'people were killed have not been confirmed con-firmed at railroad offices here. LOS ANGELES. Get .".v. All but 'two coaches of tho Salt lake Limited left the track ut Yermo, according to information gi" tO Division Superintendent Superin-tendent Thomas B. Cullen before ho left his tiome here on a special train bound for the scene of thc wreck. He. gave no other details. LOS ANUELES. I let 30. A relief (train has been sent from itarstow. California, Cal-ifornia, to the scene of the reported Salt Cake Route wreck near Yermo, ten miles east of Karstow. It was an-Inounced an-Inounced at the offices of the Salt ,. routs here. |