Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-05-06
PRESENCE 0F MINI SAVES TOWN 0F
 MAYER
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tid'h' b'ihH ih'H N'iy h'di SNlte, protected by guard rail. This qua, rail and the frog of the switch serve Co throw the trucks back on the tra, before the cars were entirely derail., and these two cars continued their m, flight while the remaining four eu piled into the ditch, the car of lumbs being completely splintcred. Next | this ear was the ear containing the ds tillatc and gasoline, the following cs containing some 2,s00 pounds of dys, mite, the coach being last in the trail That the great shock oeeassioned t the ears piling up did not set off ti, explosive is considered marvellous h all familiar with dynamite and the d ture of Sundays wreck. Had the pod der gone of Mayer, and, incidental your correspondent, who was within quarter of mile of the scene when tI train left the track, would how be thing of the past.
 The two front ears of the train wad broke away from the remainder, d as far as Blue Bell siding, where tAd encountered n stiff grade, gradual slowing down, coming to stop, d then starting back down the hill aga} until they reached the grade on opposite side, rolling back and fod in this manner several times, until tN finally came to stop on level strcJ in the track.
 After the wreck many Mayer r dents ran to the scene, among the 6 to arrive being Frank Wagner, a blad smith. Just as he came up someo} set up the cry to "run for your livs the passenger coach is on fire" d news rapidly spread and those livj close to the scene ran from their hon} in great fright, as it was we'll knos| that powder was the chief freight the wrecked cars. In the meantime, however, Wagu{ on hearing of the danger from fire, q tered the passenger coach and found partly filled with smoke from s which had originated from the sts in the coach, the door of wnich been pared of when the cars left \ track, allowing some live coals to on the cushions of the ear seats, igd , ing them.
 With great presence of mind wsr sprang to the water cooler in the of the ear, tore it from its fasteniA and poured the water on the smoua ing seats, extinguishing the hsp thereby averting what would have n certainly proved the destruction Mayer and the loss of many lives, the flames ever reached the powder the car ahead.
 Within ten minutes after the povi train had piled up, Vice President General Manager Drake, who ws' MT. Murphy's private ear when train got away, was on the scene, gether with the train crew, sizing the situation. Instructions were vi Prescott to send out the wrecking er which arrived about 4:3O o'clock s day afternoon, and tho work of cle ing the wreck gotten under way once. IL was found that the passes coach was very little damaged, the exception of a broken platforz having buried itself in the mud of
 roadbed, after the preceding cars
 torn away the track and ties. q with the second ear, was restored the track, and pulled to a siding.
 third of the wrecked ears was I'd to one side, out of the way, while fourth car, the one containing the
 Der, was so neatly spread over as 100 feet square of mountain sid, to make the work of getting 1t out the way unnecessary. Before mors the track was clear and shortly Il the line was again open to traass, It wss not until long after the VI that those who witnessed the accia could appreciate what a really nal
 escape they had had from m
 death.