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ACCIDENT AT OAKLAND WHARF

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 30, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 36.

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ACCIDENT AT OAKLAND WHARF.

A SPECIAL train from Sacramento, having on board the First Regiment, National Guard, passed Oakland about 7:30, P. M., Sept. 26. While running at high speed the locomotive struck an open switch, near the wharf, and plunged into the bay. It was followed by the tender, which stood up and acted as a fender, thus preventing the passenger cars from going down. The engineer went down with the locomotive, imprisoned in the cab. No other life was lost.