New Oct. 19, 1935: A Southern Pacific Locomotive Is Derailed Later On A Crash Amongst A Seven-Ton Sand Truck Inwards Glendale.

The southbound Southern Pacific Lark, rolling through Glendale yesterday, smashed into a seven-ton truck loaded alongside sand together with the comport on derailed both the train’s locomotives, 2 coaches, tore upwardly a department of rails together with sent twelve passengers together with trainmen to hospitals.

Leaping from the driver’s topographic point of the truck when he saw the impending collision, E. J. Chaney of 213 West Windsor Road, Glendale, escaped give-up the ghost past times inches together with was alone slightly hurt. He was hauling sand for the Consolidated Rock Products Company.

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Careening off the roadbed, the Pb locomotive of the sixteen-car prepare broke free together with plowed a deep furrow through sandy lay down for but about 800 feet earlier coming to a halt at an angle that all but turned over. …

The crash occurred at Aviation Drive, a little-used route through a dump at the southeast terminate of Grand Central Air Terminal, at a indicate across San Fernando Road contrary the westward terminate of Doran Street.

More than 170 passengers aboard the Lark, coming from San Francisco together with inside a half-hour of their Los Angeles destination, were severely shaken upwardly when the crash came at 8:40 a.m. ….