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Title: Boiler casing blown 150 feet in locomotive blast, watchman killed
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated June 6, 1949 reads, "Broken line traces the course of a boiler casing that was blown 100 feet high and landed 150 feet away when a Santa Fe work train locomotive exploded at Doheny Park. B. J. Blake, engine watchman, was killed. His body was found 430 feet away."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;9 x 26 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099359
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005109441
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30236
Subject: Santa Fe Southern Railway Company
Locomotives--California--San Juan Capistrano
Explosions--California--San Juan Capistrano
Debris--California--Los Angeles
Doheny State Park (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
San Juan Capistrano (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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