San Francisco County CA Archives Obituaries.....Laws, R.J. October 20, 1904
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Monring Oregonian October 21,1904
died From Excietment
Wreck On Southern Pacific Ends Life Of Local Superintendent
San Fransisco,Oct.20-Passenger train No.3,the westbound express on the 
Southern Pacific,came in collision today with the rear end of a stock train at 
Yuba Pass,near Cisco station, in PLacer County,Cal.,No one was injured,but the 
accident caused a fire which destroyed the caboos and four cars of the stock 
train,seriously damaging the engine of the passenger train and burning the 
epress and baggage cars. The fire consumed for a distance of 2200 feet. The 
wrecked passenger train was taken to Cisco,and after much effort the fire in 
the snowsheds was gotten under control.
Shortly after the accident,R.J.Laws,superintendent of the Sacrememnto division 
of the Southenr Pacific,who was on the passenger train,dropped dead,presumably 
with heart disease,with which he was afflicted for some time. He was one of 
the best known railroad men on the Pacific Coast.With Superintendent Laws at 
the time of the accident were James Agler,manager of the Southern Pacific, and 
J.H.Wallace,superintendent of maintanence and ways. They were riding in 
Mr.Agler's private car.

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