Los Angeles Times; November 4, 1904 NARROW ESCAPE OF TRAINMEN. PERRIS CALIFORNIA. Nov. 3.- Only the fact that the train was moving at a slow rate of speed prevented loss of life in a freight wreck which occurred at 2 o'clock this afternoon a the Lakeview Y, two miles north of here. The passenger train from San Jacinto to San Bernadino had pulled into the Y and engine No. 416 was backing a string of more than thirty refrigerator cars toward Perris to clear the main line for the other train. The long freight train had barely cleared the switch when the breaking of a truck under one of the cars in the middle of the train caused that car and two others to "buckle" crushing the framework of several cars. The shock stopped the train so suddenly that the tank of the locomotive was almost derailed and the pipe carrying fuel oil into the firebox parted. Instantly the locomotive was a mass of flames and the engine crew were compelled to jump to save themselves. The fire was extinguished by the two train crews by throwing sand upon the burning oil and the engine was not disabled. The main line was blocked for several hours.
