Dozens died in 1912 locomotive explosion

Federal investigators and a blue-ribbon committee pressed ahead on Mar. 24, 1912 with probes of the worst manmade calamity in San Antonio since the fall of the Alamo. Following a Christmas week wreck near Seguin, Number 704 had been undergoing repairs in the Southern Pacific roundhouse on the eastern edge of downtown San Antonio. After three months in the shop, the 200,000-pound, tenwheel steam…