Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-01-21
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FREsso, January 20.-Tho following
is list Of south bound passengers pass
ing here to-day;
J d Biansteller, ST Louis: II Croft,
Lille I Jacobs, s d Wakeheld, ii j
McKusick, A M Gray, Miss Helen M
| Gray, Stephen Roberts, X G Connor and
wife, NJ Duke. James Donaldson, G B
dollhouse, L Hatch, johnson, San
Francisco; s p David and wife, Modesto;
Theo O'Connor, c + Sullivan, New
York; c Il Huber, Miss Mary Crohan,
L Dartigues, Miss A q Fennell, Frank
Wood, Joseph Bartholomew, John
Weber, Los Angeles; David Hill, Den
yer; Mrs Dora Z Grossman, Omaha; I
Elliott and wife; Chicago; A I Elliott,
Philadelphia; w McCarkell, Scioto, o;
Jonnie Marks, Ogden;C G Call, d G
Holt, r Holt, Dayton, Ogn; 4 W
Barnhardt. III Paso; Mrs A A Gignoll
and two children, Grizzly, Flat; DIR Bar.
clay and sister, Pittsburgh, Pa; Geo A
Kelly, c ] Brosigton, Dayton, w I; 7
w Day, Cheyenne; } w Broaded, III
Monte; II q jackson, Oakland; DIR N J
Aiken, Michigan; w II Spear. New Jer-
sey, ] w Owens, Sacramento, G NJ
Willard, Oakland.
The Railroad Disaster-Cause OF
the Accident-FuiI List OF the
Killed and Injured.
SAN FRANcIsco, January 20. There
being only one operator at Tehachepi
| Station, no Press dispatches regarding
| the railroad nccident, have yet been
received but the following obtained nj
the office of the Railroad Company:
Shortly after midnight the overland
Express. by Southern Pacific, which left
here at 0:20 A. NJ. yesterday. stopped
near Tehachepi Station to cut out the
extra engine taken on OF Sumner to as
sist in pulling up the Tehachepi grade.
While making tho change, by some
and started back northward down the
grade Of ono hundred and twenty feet
to the mile. The train consisted of two
engines, the express, mail and baggage
cars, two sleepers, one coach and a
smoker. 1t went down the grade at
frightful speed for about four miles,
when the hind sleeper jumped the track
and went over an embankment about
fifteen feet high, carrying with it the
other sleeper, mail, baggage and express
cars, which were piled in shattered
| heap, took fire and were consumed.
The coach and smoker kept on the down
grade and were stopped without leaving
! tho track about two miles further on.
All on board were uninjured. The scene
following the wreck was terrible. A
number OF passengers 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
accurately, but it ia believed from twelve
to fifteen persons are killed or burned to
death. The dead so far as known are
Mrs. John Cassell. wife OF well known
mining man, burned to death; F. W..
Person, express messenger; the porter
OF one of the sleepers, named Wright,
was taken out alive. but died soon after;
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 TO- A. N. seven bodies had
been taken ont, some burned beyond
recognition. The following are report
cd injured: Mrs. Capt. J. X. Brown,
Miss Ida Brown. Lee Waterman, Mrs.
A. l.. Waterman and two children, j ohm
F. Cassell, ex,Gov. Downey, maid of
Mrs. Porter Ashe, James Woodall, + w
Dougherty, Mrs. p. C. Hatch, Mrs. R.
L. Hatch. It is a remarkable fact that
the wounded are almost without excep.
ton but slightly injured. The follow.
ing passengers are unhurt: Porter Ashe
and wife, II. A. Oliver, Miss E. Squires
and I. J. Oliver. Many are missing,
supposed to have been buried in the
wreck and consumed Ashe and wife,
who is the daughter of the late Judge
E. b. Croker. who were on, their wed
ding tour, We're in the sleeper which left
the track and made their escape unin-
jured, almost miraculously. A special
train has been sent to the scene from
Los Angeles with physicians and an
undertaken. The dead and wounded
will be taken to Los Angeles. Mean.
time every possible attention is paid
them on the ground A wrocking train
has arrived from Sumner.
H'rrtbar partfcuI.-s 90 tta mi,