Train Wreck on the Southern Pacific Railroad
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| March 28, 1907 - One of the most disastrous wrecks in the history of the Southern Pacific occurred one and a half miles east of this place shortly after 4 o'clock this afternoon, when West-bound passenger train No. 9, from New Orleans for San Francisco, ran into an open switch while going at the rate of forty miles an hour, and ten of the fourteen coaches were derailed with frightful results. Twenty-six persons are known to have been killed, and the final list will total much higher than this number. The injured number about one hundred, many of whom will die. |
