Arizona republican., 1910-04-26
PASSENGERS
 CLOSE CALL IA Box Car Scraped Half
 the Train Length THERE WERE NO INJURIES But the Railroad Suffered Considerable Damage to Rolling Stock. The Wrecking Crew Cleaned the Track
THERE WERE NO INJURIES

1 The accident here Sunday evening in the NJ. X P yards when box car | scraped half the length of the out go-
 ing evening Maricops train was more
 serious in nature than the special dis i patch in yesterday mornings paper in | dicated. Fortunately and miraculous 1 ly, too. no one was hurt but the proper ] ty loss to the railroad cOmp3ny was 1 considerable
 i The train pulled out as usual and
 was going at fair rate of speed when the box car butted into the cab of the engine on the firemans side. The ex- plantation given in the dispatch yester- day morning is the only one that has been offered as vet. It was that the car was not properly locked with the brake and the vibrations of the on coming train started il enough to pro- ject the end of it out over the main line. The first intimation of trouble
 that the engine crew had was when d small portion of the cab was removed by it's contact with the car. The en- gineer of course applied the air imme- didtely but was unable to stop the train until the baggage car. the smoker and
 part of the day coach had suffered. The smoker lost the brass railings and part of the vestibule and the day coach
 had nearly every window on that side broken. The box car caught on the
 day coach and was derailed. almost over turning the day coach before the
 train came to a stop.
 It was marvellous that none of the
 passengers were hurt by flying splin-
 ters and broken glass. but a physician
 who happened to be on the ground
 went through the ear immediately after
 the accident and ascertained that
 there were no injuries among the
 passengers.
 4 rather amusing incident occurred
 just as the box car struck the day
 coach. One of the passengers was
 small negro, from his appearance evil
 dently a jockey. The moment he heard
 the crash he went out through an open
 window. landed on the ground and was
 on top of pile of ties opposite the
 track almost in the wink of an eye
 There was naturally much consterna-
 ton among the passengers as the ear scraped along the passenger car. splin- tering windows. sills and crashing the glass. and in the sudden departure of the negro a lady passenger with an in fant in her arms saw possible hope of saving the child from injury. Rush
 ing to the window through which the colored man disappeared. she thrust the child out and cried. Save my baby. save my baby" The negro didn't stop a moment in his mad flight for the pile of ties, but replied as he ran ITO with the baby. throw it out" He remarked afterward that he didn't know how he got out of the window or how he managed to get on that pile of ties as promptly as he did. but he got there just the same.
 The box car had so wedged itself against the day coach that it was found impossible to budge it. Consequently that coach and the smoker were both left standing on the track. The bag gage car was pulled up and the re- maining coaches and Pullmails on the rear of the train were pulled back. Two more coaches were sent over from Phoenix in quick time and the passen- gers were transferred to them, after which the newly made-up train was detoured around the damaged cars and the train continued on to Maricopa.
 Later in the night the wrecking crew arrived and got things in shape again. It was found that She box car had been forced off the track and in- to the ground with such force that the wheels were half buried in the road bed.