Arizona republican., 1917-10-26
TORNADO IF FIRE
 H|S BIER

SaVlIlR HlilSeIl lTO1D luJul U. luliip- ing from his engine, o. Logan Linville, fireman on a Santa Fe, Prescott x Phoenix railroad freight train, met death about 10:40 o'clock yesterday overturned and took fire Tn collision on Capitol Curve at Eighteenth ave- nue. Liquid fire, rushing and rolling from the overturned tank, overlook Linville at q time when ten feet more would have meant safety, and burned him to death while scores stood near by unable to offer him the slightest aid
 Not until the fire department had been enabled to partly cool the big tank and confine the flames more nearly to their source was it possible to reach the charred body, which for q time had been entirely surrounded by the burning. boiling liquid. and then there was but one office to be per formed, that of placing q sheet over the body pending the arrival of Coroner Frank De Souza.
 The exact cause of the collision had not been determined last evening. A switch engine, pushing a tank car of gasoline. was enroute from the Santa Fe yards to the Standard Oil plant west or lOWn. 1De crew cOISlSltu oi Engineer Albert and Fireman Tom Wall Ross Montgomery. Santa Fe yardmaster was aboard the engine. This engine and the tank car had reached point just south of the Cap- itol when it was observed that q freight train drawn by Engine No was ap- preaching from the north. lmmedi- ately the brakes were applied on the switch engine which was brought nearly to a stop.
 Despite blasts of the whistle from the switch engine, the freight train continued on it's way and is said not to have begun to slow down until collision was inevitable. When the impact came, Engineer sam Shaw and Fireman Linville, crew of the freight engine, jumped to save themselves. Shaw dropped alongside the tracks and escaped with minor bruises Lin vile jumped from the fireman's side of the engine and was rapidly making his way to a place of safety when gasoline from the tank car which had overturned, became ignited, probably from the fires under the boilers of the freight engine, and sent a death-deal - ing flood in pursuit Linville was caught in this flood and dropped to tho ground immediately.
 About the same instant as the gaSO- line became ignited the oil in the ten der of the freight engine also took fire and instantly great cloud of black smoke enveloped the entire section, shutting out the wrecked engines from | view and for a time obscuring the body of Linville It was not until the fire department had been at work for sev- eral minutes that his body was again seen.
 When an alarm had been sent in and l the entire fire department had respond ed, there was rush of thousands of spectat tors to the scene. But so great was the heat from the flaming gaso- ! line and so dense was the cloud of smoke rising from the burning oil, the ] crowd did not draw sufficiently close to ] the wreck to hinder the firemen in l their work of subduing the flames When a cry went up that there was i danger of one or both of the engines I exploding the crowd drew even further ] away
 | For fully an hour the firemen bat . tied with the flames It was found
 that. efforts to eXtinguish the gasoline fed fire was hopeless task Attention was therefore directed to preventing
 spread ofs the flames to the freight
 
 entirely successful. Not only were all
 the freight cars saved, but the switch
 ing engine, too. was practically un-
 damaged
 None of the crew of either of tht engines. nor any of the Santa Fe off cials would venture an opinion last | evening as to just where the blame fol
 the collision rested. The fire had not
 burned itself out then nor had the
 wreckage been entirely cleared away
 The outbound trains on the Santa Fe
 were delayed or annulled because ot
 the fact that the tracks were stil
 blockaded. A northbound train. whcl
 had reached Peoria when the collision
 occurred. was stopped and the engine
 ordered to return in order to assist il
 clearing away the wreckage. Thi!
 engine was the only one enabled t,
 reach the northern and western side O
 the wrecl<age. There were several en
 zines in the yards of the Santa F'e ans
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