Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-01-23

Oh OaES. AuS OUbto oAo Osioukiy uA0os
and coald stand great deal of rough
wssther.
Number of passengers missing, 1868;
paSssngers known to be safe, 80; crew
missing. II; creyknown to be safe. 81;
missing, all told, 434; safe. far as
known, So. This is as far as the lists
90, and makes the whole number on
board 4S7 instead of 40. The slight
discrepancy with the figures given 10
the press dispatches leads to the hope
that more names may yet be recsiyed,
New YORK, Jan 22.-J. f. H.
Meyer, agent of the Hamburg 4 Amer.
lean line, says he cannot understand
why the Sultan did not pick up some Of
theboats 81, the Cimhrik. He thonglit
it very strange conduct on .her pSf5 to
leave them perish. He feared great
many lives were lost, for after being
struck as she was the vessel would not
have floated, at most, more than Is OF
20 minutes. The central compartmsn
of the vessel, where the engines aud
coal bunkers are situated, are very
large, and are necessarily connected
by passage ways. Ia the event OF such
accidents as collision there would be
no time to close the compartments, and
the weight Of the water would
sink the vessel at once. Meyer said
that it was probable that few Of the
passengers were Americans returning
home. Tourists generally ship at
Havre. Meyer says that later dis
patches from Hamburg made him sure
that no persons were saved other than
those already mentioned. He thought
it probable from the dispatches that
not more than two boats got away from
the Cimbria. A large proportion of the
sailors were saved He thought this
was due to their better knowledge OF
swimming and holding to any floating
piece of wreck. He was confident that
many more lives would have been
saved if the vessel had remained on her
keel. AL! uninjured boats could have
been used. Meyer said the Sultan re-
ported when she arrived that she had
been in collision with steamer, prob
ably the Cimb,ia. '.1f," he said, "the
Captain of the Sultan suspected that he
had been in collision with the Cimbria,
he must have known hundreds of lives
were IN peril, as he knew she was an
emigrant vessel, and why did he not
stop and see how badly she was iDjured?"
Out Of twenty three cabin passengers
seven were saved. There was only one
flight of stairs from the deck and they
had better chance of escape than the
steerage passengers, who We're two
flights down.
The Southern Pacific Accident.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22.-Last Sat.
urday morning, the Southern Pacific
overland train, leaving San Francisco
yesterday at $50. A. NJ, met with
serious accident four miles north of Te-
hachapi. As far as il now known from
Is to 20 persons were killed and from
10 to II lnjured-seven seriously. All
the passengers i'll the sleepers, except
Mr.. and Mrs. Ashe, were either killed
or injured. Special trains started at
once from Los Angeles to the scene OF
the disaster. Relief trains were sent
from Tulare aud Sumner with physl-
clans. The remains of many are so
burned and charred as to be uorecog-
nizable. At the summit where the
train stops the track is almost level.
When the trains halt the air brakes are
applied in stopping. When the engine
is detached, the pressure on the b. axe
is relaxed by disconnectlng the air.hose.
1t is supposed that the hard-brakes did
not give sufficient pressure to hold the
wheels after the air-pressure was re-
lieved. 1t is probable that the high
wind gave the train a start, and at each
trains length in the descending dash to
destruction down the grade. the veloci-
ty was increased with terrible
rapidity, and amid the roar
of the wind and the clank
of the wheels on dark night,
it was no easy thing to tell
whether the train was going ahead or
backing, and even if the passengers
knew that it was backing, they prob
ably thought it was part or the regular
programme and paid no attention to the
matter. There was only one man on
the cars-the rear brakesmau-who
bad any real interest in the care OF the
train or the way the cars were running.
The cars rolled down the grade, gather.
ing speed as they went until they
reached a curve in the road about three
and hall miles north of Tehachapi.
This curve was not sharp, probably
about SIX degrees. and the two rear cars
rounded it in safety. The second sleeper,
however, for some unexplained cause
probably the high rate Of speed, pos.
sibly the pressure of the high WIND
on that part Of the train-jumped
the rails. and dragging the follow
ing cars off the track with it, plugged
down an embankuent about 10 feet
deep, piliog the wreck III heap at the
bottom. The smoker and diy-coach
that rounded the curve first broke loose
from the sleeper aud continued down
the grade for abpnt two miles, where
they were stopped without any enc in
them being Injured. The sleeper that
first left the track, the mail, baggage
and express cars which lay at the bot
tom Of the embankmenr, took fire al
most Immediately, burning t. charred
heap the unfortunate pers as who were
ir then, leaving scarce vestige OF dress
or mark of any kind by which they
could be identified, and roshiug of tie
wrecked cars except the iron work ami
metal flushing.
The train vas composed of one bag
gage, one mail and express, two sieepers,
one coach and one smoker. The car
that Jumped the track was the second