Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-22

distant, and as soon as possible medical
attendance was sent from Sum
ner and Bakersfield, and subsequent
ly from Los Angeles. The search
for the dead soon showed that twenty -one
persons had perished. Eleven
were beyond all recognition-only head
less bodies and charred limbs were found.
Of the body of Mrs. Downey only the head
and bust renamed, and was recognized by
the jewelry. All the bodies and the frag-
ments we're gathered up and cofined, the
wounded removed to the baggage car, and
on the arrival of the relief train from
Los Angeles were sent to that
city. Of the dead colored
porter Wright was crushed; express mes
senger Charles Piersoa had his head shat
tered; five were burnt but recognizable,
viz: Miss Mamie E. Squires, Mrs. H. H.
Oliver, Mrs. Downey, M. Wethered and
Mrs. j as. Cashell. Two men, unknown, but
supposed to be discharged soldiers. were
found dead but not burned. One body of
large man, badly charred, is sup
posed to be the remains of Col
onel Charles FL. Larrabee, ex-congressman
from Wisconsin. Gov. Downey S ays LARA
bee was on the train, and he is missing
since the accident The remaining eleven
are still unidentified. The list of wound
ed is not changed from previous reports.
An inquest is in progress, but no news is
yet received from it. No one bat railroad
and county officials are admitted.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21.-No news is yet
received of the coroner's inquest into the
cause of the railroad disaster. Rumors
are afoat of finding more bodies, but
nothing definite. The remains supposed
to be Mrs. Downey, on examination to-day
proved to be those of some other person.
The bodies of Chas. K. Pierson, express
messenger, Mrs. M. E. Squires and Law
renee, sleeping car porter, we're sent to
Oakland, and that of G. 81. Larrabee to
San Francisco by express this evening
Jas. R. Dwyer, of Dwyer's katie, and Rob-
ertson, of San Francisco, supposed to be
on the wrecked train, arrived here Friday
safe. Porter exhibited a great deal of cool
heroism at the burning of the cars. After
drawing his wife and her maid through
the window Of the sleeper, he rescued ex-
timbers, saving his life.
Tee Call will tomorrow publish an in
terview with Howard Tilton, of Yale, Brit
ish Columbia, freight agent of the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad company, who was
on board the Southern Pacific train at the
time of the disaster. He says: I was
asleep in the lower berth when the acci-
dent occurred, and was awakened by the
terrible speed and rocking Of the car. I
threw up the curtain and looked
out of the window. The train was passing
down grade with frighthful rapidity.at the
rate, propably, of seventy miles an hour.
l realized that disaster was imninent,and
laid down again to await the inevitable
with feeling manmust experience when
he is standing on theIscaffold in expecta-
tion of the fall of the trap. It seemed
but an instant, when the crash came and
I was hurled from,s.the berth, I was
sleeping on the left side of the car, which
fell upon the right side, and was covered
to my waist with mattresses, wood work
and debris, but found no difficulty in free
ing myself. Smoke passed through the
car, giving timely token of impending
peril. To the right and IN my
rear I saw Mr.. and Mrs. Porter.
She was perfectly free, but Miss Peterson,
the maid, was buried under about six feet
of debris, on top of which was the water
cooler and wash basin, Mrs. Ashe endeav-
oring to extricate her, and assisted in
clearing away the rubbish. We soon sue
ceeded in pulling her out. They
we're the only persons in sight.
pushed up the window on what was
then the top of the car and found them to
work perfectly, not pane being crushed.
I crawled through, drew Miss Peterson out
and Mrs. Ashe followed. I asked Porter
Ashe to throw out some blankets, which he
did, and then crawled through himself.
Mr.. Ashe, Miss Peterson and my
self had only our underclothing
on, but Mrs. Ashe wore a seal skin
sack. The cold was intense, and we shiv-
cred even though wrapped in blankets.
Deep stiffness followed the crash, and we
heard only one scream while we were in
the car. As I emerged from the car I saw
Mr.. Hatch and his mother climbing
out another window. l ran a along
and found we could reach the groGad by
means of the platform. I lowered Miss
Peterson, Mr.. and Mrs. Ashe leaping to
the ground. Ehe upper part of the car
was III udH1eS ny Cn1S Iluo' dSSluS
along by the sleeper I saw the legs of a
man protruding from the car. Ho was
piteously calling for help, but cool and
thoroughly conscious of his position.
succeeded in partially extricating him,
when train man came to my assistance,
and we saved him from horrible death.
He proved to be John F. CasseIl, of San
Francisco, and was the last person taken
from the ruins alive. All human efforts
were of no further avail, as the sleeper was
in sheet of flames. We left the spot and
limped down to the bottom of the ravine,
some fifty feet below, where had
nav collected ex-Gov. Downey, Mr..
Cassell, Mr.. and Mrs. Ashe, Miss
Peterson, Capt. Walterhouse and daugh-
ter, and few persons scattered about us
shivering in the blast. Among the rocks
on the steep side of the@leeper lay Wright,
The porter, wounded to death, and begging
bitterly for help. At the time there were
some big, strong men fully dressed parad-
ing up and down, who were appealed to for
aid by the injured, but who took no notice
! whatever of the cries of the suffering. ]
attempted to assist Wright,who was dying,
but being worn out could do but little. A
brakeman named Mckenzie did all in his
power for US. A locomotive from Tehacha-
hi soon came to our relief and conveyed
US to the station, where we arrived two