TRAINS COLLIDE IN AMERICA
TEN DEAD AND 100
INJURED
BRAKEMAN’S MISTAKE CAUSES ACCIDENT
(Received September 21, 9.30 p.m.
LOS ANGELES, September 21,
Cutting through the twisted wreckage of the • steel carriages rescuers found 10 dead and more than 100 injured in a head-on collision between two Southern Pacific trains 180 miles from Los Angeles. Six of the crews of the trains are believed to have been killed.
It is stated that a brakeman became confused and threw the mainline switch sending the Argonaut, bound from New Orleans, into a siding on which the Chicago-bound Californian was waiting. The majority of the passengers were asleep when the collision occurred.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22513, 22 September 1938, Page 11
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