Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-21
AND RUsHEs DOWN A MOUNTAIN.
Several Cars Thrown Over a Preeipiee
$50 Feet High.
THE WRECK TAKES FIRE AT ONCE
And the Manned and Wounded Roasted
to Death.
RAILWAY SMASH IN NEW MEXICO.
The Steamship Cimbria Sunk by Col
IiSiOn at Sea.

SAN Francisco. Jan. 2O.-There being no
operator at Tepachapi station, no press
dispatches regarding the railroad accident
are yet received, but the following is OBJ
tanned at the Office of the railroad company
here:
Shortly after midnight the overland ex-
press by the Southern Pacific, which left
here at 9:2O a. m. yesterday, stopped near
Tepachapi station to cut out the extra
engine taken at Sumner to assist pulling
up the Tepachapi grade. While making
the change, by some means yet unk nown
the train got away and started back
down the grade of 120 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 hindmost
sleeper jumped the track and went over
the enbankment about $50 feet high, car
rying with it the other sleeper, mail,
baggage and express cars, which were
piled in a shattered heap, took fire and
were consumed. The coach and smoker
kept on down the grade and were stopped
without leaving the track about two miles
farther on. All ON board were uninjured.
THE SCENE
following the wreck was terrible, and a
number of persons were jammed amid the
ruins of the train and roasted to death be-
fore the eyes of those helpless to save
them. At present it is impossible to give
the loss of life. Twelve to fifteen persons
were killed or burned to death. The dead
so far as known are:
Mrs. John Cassell, wife of the well known
mining man, burned.
F. W. Pierson.
Express Messenger Wright, taken out
alive but died soon after.
Lawrence, porter of the other sleeper,
burned.
1t is feared that the wife of ex-Gov.
Downey, who with her husband was on
the train, is among the dead.
1910 a. m.-Seven bodies have been ta-
ken out, some burned beyond recognition.
The following are reported injured:
Mrs. Capt. J. Waterhouse.
Mrs. A. L. Waterhouse and two children.
John 7. Cassell.
Ex-Gov. Tom Downey,
Maid of Mrs. Porter.
Ashe James Woodall.
T. W. Dougherty.
Miss P. G. Hatch.
Mrs. Hatch.
Miss Ida Brown.
Mrs. Capt. J. K. Brown.
1t is a remarkable fact that the wounded
are almost without exception but slightly
injured.
The following passengers are uuhurt:
Porter Ashe and wife.
T.J. Oliver.
Many are missing, and supposed to have
been buried in the wreck and consumed.
Ashe and wife, who is the daughter of the
late Judge E. B. Crocker, were on their
wedding tour, and were in the sleeper
which first left the track, and their escape
uninjured is almost miraculous. Aspecial
train has been sent to the scene from Los
Angeles with physicians and an under
taker. Tha dead and wounded are to be
taken to Los Angeles. In the meantime
every possible attention is given them.
Further advices from Tehacapi give as
probable cause of the accident, that when
the train stopped the air brakes were ap
piled. On detaching the engine the brakes
relaxed and the hand brakes were either
left open or were not strong enough to hold
the train. The movement may have been
helped by the strong gale blowing. It is
now certain that eighteen passengers and
two sleeping car porters were killed, and
ten or twelve badly injured. Seventeen
bodies have been removed from the wreck, /
one of whom is considered GER
tain to be Mrs. Downey. Capt. Waterhouse,
previously reported injured, is not expect
ed to survive. The following were badly
DUTu6Qs MIS- L. ~. 1dLCn, MIS- IL. ".
Hatch, Mrs. Capt. Brown, R. G. Rous,
Capt. T. H. Thatcher, Stephen Coffin, j. W.
Searles, j. B. Woodall, and F. W. Dougher-
ty. The wounded will be placed in hos
pital at Los Angeles, at the railroad COM
pany's expense. The remains of the un-
identified dead, if any, will be gathered up
and buried at Los Angeles. Superintend-
ent Fillmore says it is not yet known who
was to blame, but some one has been care
less. The matter Will be thorough
~ Investigated. The train carried
from this city one pouch of registered
letters for st. Louis, Mo-, and about 100
small packages of registered letters for
various other points. The mail was i'm
portant and unusually full, containing lei
ters and printed matter for Los Angeles,
San Bernardino and all postoffices south of
those points in Arizona, New Mexico, Tex
as, portion of Colorado and state of
Tonoro, Mexico. One report is that all
the mail and express was burned; another
that it was saved.
COLLISION AT SEA.
New YORK, Jan. 20.-Kunhard Co.,