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FILE - This April 6, 2010, file photo, shows the Dolph Briscoe Unit correctional facility in Dilley, Texas, after two prisoners escaped from the facility. Texas is beginning to arrest and jail migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border on state charges such as trespassing, putting at least 10 suspects so far this week into the former state prison that can hold up to 1,000 inmates, officials said Thursday, July 22, 2021. (Tom Reel/The San Antonio Express-News via AP) July 22, 2021 - 4:03 PM
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) â Texas is beginning to arrest migrants on trespassing charges along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott s actions that he says are needed to slow the number of border crossings, jailing at least 10 people so far with more on the way, authorities said Thursday.
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The guy shot him - SWAT officer recalls finding slain Det. Benjamin Marconi slumped in patrol car
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Witnesses testify on the eighth day of Otis McKane s trial on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. McKane is accused of killing SAPD Detective Benjamin Marconi on Nov. 20, 2016.Kin Man Hui / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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San Antonio Police officer Parker Morris (right) looks over a booking sheet with state Prosecutor Tamara Strauch (left) as witnesses testify on the eighth day of Otis McKane s trial.Kin Man Hui, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Judge Ron Rangel listens to a discussion between Prosecutor Tamara Strauch (left) and Defense Attorney Raymond Fuchs as witnesses testify on the eighth day of Otis McKane s trial.Kin Man Hui, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Aftermath of the March 18, 1912 train explosion in San Antonio.Public Domain
It s the stuff of legend. A labor strike, a train, a catastrophic blast that left carnage in its wake.
What is now the Eastside of San Antonio bore witness to the grisly scene of an unprecedented train explosion that still remains shrouded with questions.
It was five minutes til 9 a.m. and railroad employees were prepping the train to get the locomotive running after being repaired due to a crash it was involved in months earlier, archives say.
Farrell L. Tucker wrote “The Great Locomotive Explosion: A Socio-Historical Examination of a Tragedy,” available on the website of the UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts. In it, he explains that the boiler s first test was stopped after pressure valves showed a problem. It was then reignited to let the boiler build pressure again. The pressure became too much and the multi-ton machinery was launched from its position, leaving the