Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-26

hour approached the stores were closed, blinds
were drawn and the town assumed an air of
sadness Funeral services were held over the
bodies of VIM. CASTILLO, Jeremiah Darcy,
Frank Butler and Mrs. G. S. Hussey Clay
+. Merrill was buried at Sequel.
The wounded are generally getting on re-
markably well. A cool and pleasant breeze
blows up from the seaside keeping the air in
the rooms of the sick pure and agreeable.
An inspection made this morning of all the
wounded found them CHEEKY, and happy that
their wounds were not more severe. There
are only two men who are very seriously
hurt. One is Auson Rohde, young German
from San Francisco. He has severe internal
injuries, and his lower limbs are partially
paralyzed. An occasional expectoration of
blood shows that the lungs are involved. 1t
cannot now be told whether he Will live or
not. George Post, of Santa Cruz, sustained
frightful injuries, but he is better this
m6rring than he has been, and strong hopes
are entertained Of his recovery. Henry
Rose. of San Francisco, may possibly not Je-
cover. Herman Reipon, the San Francisco
brewer, and A. Camellade have severe but
not necessarily fatal injuries.
The deaths now number in all sixteen.
The total number of wounded will probably
never be ascertained with certainty. 1t is
known that there were thirty. eight wounded
besides those who went on the train to San
Francisco the afternoon of the accident.
The Coroner's jury met this morning, but
adjourned to P NJ. to attend the funerals of
the dead. The testimony of conductor Bones
and brakeman Mclean will be taken this
afternoon by their bedsides. The jury will
probably complete their work might. At
the inquest two attorneys of the railroad
company and the District Attorney attend
and question Witnesses novel proceeding
at an inquest.
At the funeral of Frank Butler. a young
man of this city aged about Is, the hearse
was preceded by thirty of his comrades,
vehicles followed the remains to their last
resting place.
Brakeman Mclean told your correspond.
ent this morning that he was on the forward
part of the train attending to his duties at
the time of the accident
The scene was examined and surveyed by
officers of the road this morning. They give,
as the result of their examination, that the
curvature of the track where the car jumped
was 14' 80. 1t was originally 13' curve,
but the heat from the sun by expansion in
creased it. The railroad people promulgate
an idea that the expansion may have moved
one Of the rails from its place, and while the
engine, from its enormous weight, stuck to the
track the lighter and top-heavy' cars swung
from the rails.
The body which was supposed to be all that
remained of Frank Herringer has been
claimed as that of a man named Salinger.
His body and that of Henry Stahl were sent
to San Francisco this morning.
Lewis Falk's remains were taken to San
Jose.
An autopsy was held on the body of the
unknown man this morning. The name of
Hawkins was found written on his shirt
Two initials were before the name, the first
Of which is illegible. The second is "W."
He wore sleeve buttons marked H"
SECOND DIsPATCH.I
Coroner's EGquesi ResumcG-Furts,er Tes-
timOny.
SANTA Cruz, May 25th.-Ihe Coroner's
inquest was resumed at 8 o'clock this after
noon.
PASSENGERS EVIDENCE.
r. S. Hunt, one of the passengers on the
first car, testified to the particulars of the
disaster, as have already been completely re-
ported. He said: | saw 10 brakeman on
the cars, or any one hold of the brakes; |
saw the conductor; the train seemed to be
going pretty fast !; some of the soldiers were
standing at the corner of the car that struck
the bank the car struck few seconds after
the whistle blew the engine was going with
the tender in front number of the mem
bers of the militia company were sitting on
the railing and standing the side of the
car toward the bank.
TESTIMONY OF THE ENGINEER.
Th engineer of the train, r, j. Elliott, next
testified His testimony agrees with the
statements made to your reporter. He said:
I never ran an engine over that section be-
fore, but have probably walked over it fifty
times L am not the regular engineer Of the
train ON which this accident took place; [
only ran it for the day; have acted in the
engineers department of the railroad nearly
two years | was given engine No. 8 on the
18th of last mouth the cars were as heavily
loaded as they could stand; the schedule
time between Big Trees aud Santa Cruz was
twenty minutes, making the speed at fifteen
miles an hour; blew a prolonged whistle
before we arrived at the tunnel. about
seventy-ive yards from the mouth after
emerging the train seemed to give
quick start. and | Immediately called for
brakes the fireman set the tank brake; do
not know if any more brakes were set on the
train; l could not see brakeman on the
train from the engine after passing the road
crossing q short distance felt my engine rise
up on the side toward the river: l immedi-
ately reversed my engine, thinking it had
Jumped from the track; then looked back
to see how the cars were riding over what
thought was rough place; we ran very
short distance when [ saw the first and second
cars careen over toward the bank; the engine
was fronting north and backing down we
70 o. IN
feet the conductor has entire control
of the train, and the engineer acts under his
instructions; in regard to speed, at the time
of the accident the speed did not exceed, in
my judgment, twenty miles an hour the
conductor gave no signal to decrease the
speed | have no control of the train except
when | think it is going too fast | whistled
down brakes; l gave the signal for brakes
without word from the conductor had
there been coaches instead of platforms, it is
my opinion that the cars would have gone off
the track just the same; 1 have been running
this engine since April 18th, principally on a
construction train; | considered that we had
the train under full control at the
time of the accident; after I called for
breaks l noticed that the train ran
steadier and the speed did not increase the
car being fastened to the engine over the pilot
by bar will allow greater swing to it than
II 1t was coupled to the tender; it is not con-
sidered as safe to run cars behind a reversed
engine as it Is in the ordinary way, because
there Is no pilot on the tender to throw OBJ
structions from the track; an engineer is
usually more cautious in running reversed
engine than with the pilot ahead it is not
customary to run the engine backward, but
having no turn-table at FELTON, it was neces-
sary IN this case the rocks are as near to
the track in several places along the road as
at the site of the accident reversing the en-
CINE and throwing the throttle wide open on the
reverse would not throw a train from the
track think the engine must have struck
the angle Of which Mr.. Mcpherson testified,
with such force as to lift it from the rails; it
came down square on the track again though
no man was put on my engine to show me
the road; did not ask Antrim to 90 with
me for any. especial purpose 1 had not
touched drop of intoxicating liquor that
day did not see any signs of liquor on ei
thpr the conductor r. - r.