Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-01-21
ANOTHER HORROR.
Frightful Holocaust on the
Southern Pacific.

Twenty Persons Killed or Burned
to Death-A Large Number seri-
Ously Wounded and Burned-List
of the Dead and IDjured-Tu1i
Particulars of the Disaster.
ESPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE SENTINEL
SAN Francisco, Jan. 20.-There being
only one operator at Tehachopi no press
dispatches regarding the railroad accident
have yet been received, but the following
was obtained at the office of the railroad
company here: Shortly after midnight
the overland express by the Southern Pa
cific, which left here at 9:20 A. NJ. yester-
day, stopped near Tehachopi Station to
cut out an extra engine taken on at Sum-
ner, to assist in pulling up the Tehachopl
grade. While making the change, by some
means yet unknown, the train got away
and started back northward, down q grade
Of 100 feet to the mile. The train consist
ed of two engines, express, mail and bag
gage cars, two sleepers, one coach and a
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frightful speed for about four miles, when
the hindermost sleeper jumped the track
and ven over an embankment about 10
feet high, carrying with it the other
sleeper, mail, baggage and express cars,
which were piled up in a shattered heap.
They took fire and were consumed. The
coach and smoker kept on down the grade
and were stopped without leaving the track
about two miles further on. All on board
were uninjured. The scene following the
wreck was terrible. A number Of persons
were jammed amid the ruins of the train,
and roasted to death before the eyes of
those helpless to save them. At PRESENT. it
is impossible to give the loss Of life accu-
rately, but it is believed that from IL to Is
persons were killed or burned to death.
The dead, so far as known, are Mrs. John
Cassell, wife of the we'll known mining
man, burned; f. W. Pierson, express
messenger; the porter of one of the sleep
ers, named Wright; Lawrence, porter of
the other sleeper, was burned. 1t is feared
that the wife Of Ex-Governor Downey, who,
with her husband, was on the train, is
among the dead. At 1850 A. NJ. seven
bodies had been taken out, some burned
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reported injured: Mrs. Captain j. X.
Brown, Miss Ida Brown, Lee Warehouse,
Mrs. A. l.. Warehouse and two children, |
John F. Cassell, Ex-Governor Downey,
the maid of Mrs. Porter Ashe, James
Woodall, F. W. D%ougherty, Mrs. P. G.
Hatch and Mrs. r. L. Hatch. 1t is a re-
markable fact that the wounded are almost
without exception but slightly injured.
The following passengers are unhurt:
Porter Ashe and wife, II. A. oliver, Miss
E. Squires and T. j. Oliver. Many are
missing, and are supposed to have been
buried in the wreck and consumed. Ashe
and wife, who is a daughter of the late
Judge E. B. Croker, were on their we'd
ding tour, and were in the sleeper which
left the track, and their escape unin-
jured is almost miraculous. A special
train has been sent to the scene from Los
with physicians and undertakers.
The dead and wounded will be taken to
Los Angeles. Meantime every possible
attention will be paid them on the ground.
A wrecking train has arrived from Sum-
ner.
LATER INTELLIGENCE.
SAN Francisco, Jan. 2~0.-Further ad-
vices from Tehachopi give.a as the probable
cause of the accident that when the train
stopped the air brakes were applied. On
detaching the engine the brakes relaxed,
and the brakes either were open or not
strong enough to hold the train. The
may have been helped by the
strong gale blowing. It is now certain
that Is passengers and the two sleeping
car porters were killed, and 10 or 10 badly
Seventeen bodies nave been re-
moved from the wreck. Mrs. Downey and
Capt. Warehouse. previously reported in
iured, are not expected to survive. The
following we're badly burned: Mrs. P. @.
Mrs. Il. T.. Hatch, Mrs. Captain
Brown, r. @. Ross, Stephen Coffyn, J.. W.
Captain 7. H. Thatcher, James
Arndale and L. W. Dougherty. The
wounded will be placed in the hospital at
Los Angeles at the railroad company's ex-
The remains Of the unidentified
dead, if any, will be gathered up and
buried at Los Angeles. Superintendent
Fillmore says he does not yet know who
was to blame, but some one has been care
less. The matter will be thoroughly in
v~estigated. The train carried from this
city one pouch of registered letters for st.
Louis, and about 100 small packages of
registered letters for various other points.
The mail was important and unusually
full, containing letters and printed matter
for Los Angeles, San Bernardino and all
postofices south of these points, Arizona,
New Mexico, Texas, g portion Of Colorado
the State OF Sonora, Mexico. One re-
port is that all the mail and express mat
ter was burned, and another that a portion
is saved.