Show HOW BRUCE NOBLE SAVED THE FAST MAIL f saw runaway cars approaching from top of Montc llo hill and reversed his engine southern pacific fast mall train no 0 carrying tho california and oriental mall was wrecked last night at a siding called wright forty miles cast of wells the block signal in anso on alie road saved the train crow and mall clerks the westbound west bound freight had stopped at the water tank at loray when two box cars and tho caboose broke loose from the end of tho train and started down a heavy grade to siding three and one half miles away the fast mail was passing wright nt a high of speed when engineer noble saw the block ilg nil display the red danger signal indicating that something WAS on the block and he slopped his train in obedience to tho warning ho was none too hoon gs tho wild cai were heard coming down tho grade it was apparent that an accident could not bo averted and all train men and mail clerks sought safety in tho sagebrush hanco no ono was on tho train when it was struck the impact was severe but did not derail tho mall train though tho runaway cars acro all smashed into slivers tho prea story is as follows y tho accident which delayed the southern pacifica westbound west bound fast mail train last night near bonu llo nov followed a thrilling lace to escape collision with runaway cars and a caboose while the fast mail was climbing a heavy grade between montello and loray on tho west sido of tho lake tho engineer bruce was startled by the appearance of runaway freight cars bowling down tho steep grade upon him ho quickly reversed his triin and began a race down the grade with tho oncoming cars after about miles had been covered in this fashion abo cars crashed into tho locomotive but tho impact was not severe while aitho locomotive was disabled the damage to locomotive caboose and freight cars did not exceed another locomotive was sent from Montc llo sam davedson Dav ldson v as tho conductor on the train from which the cars broke loose he and his brakeman jumped before tho cars had attained a high speed |