Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-22

bones. The wounded were then moved into al
emigrant car and made as comfortable as pos
sible. At few moments after o'clock the
train started for Los Angeles with the
wounded and remains.
SOME OF THE VICTIMS.
The killed, but not burned, are Charles Pier
SOD, messenger of Wells, Fargo & Co.; w
II. Wright, porter of one of the sleepsrs, and
two men whose names could not be learned,
but who are said to be two soldiers just dis
charged from the army
The wounded are Henry Conuors, news
agent, badly bruised; James Woodruff bag
gage master, bruised, no bones broken THESE
two were kept at Tehachspi as witnesses
before the Coroner's inquest, which is being
held at the time of this writing1; ex.Gov-
ernor j. G.. Downey, badly bruised; j. X.
Brown and Miss Ida Brown, bruised: Min
ME Patterson, maid of Mrs. Ashe, badly
bruised and two broken ribs on the right side
T. M. Doughsrty, mail agent, bruised kept
as witness before the Coroner's juryl; Mrs.
81. G. Hatch, fractured rib. Captain Water
house of Gardner, Maine, is, perhaps, most
seriously injured of all, had no bones broken,
but general commissions of an aggravated
character; Mrs. Wsterhouse, injured, dislo-
Gated shoulder. as also their two children,
but not seriously. Seventeen bodies, or parts
OF bodies. which had been burned, were
taken from the ruins. but not one Of them is
recognizable.
MRS. ]. C. DoWNEY WAS IDENTIFIED
AS one of the burned, from the remains Of
clothing and diamond bracelet on her wrist.
Howard Tiltop, young man slightly injured,
and Harry Connors, news agent, say that
they saw Miss Squires caught in the burning
sleeper, but neither could rescue her, being
unable to move. She died most horrible
death. Mrs. Cassell, wife of J. +. Csssell,
was burned to death, and her husband was
slightly injured. He takes her remains to
San Francisco to-day. The others If the
ney says that Colonel Larrabee, an ex mem
Der of Congress from Wise onsin, was on the
train, and had talked to him. A large corpse
taken from the smoldering sleeper is supposed
to be Lsrrabee's, as he is missing. He was
on his way to San Bernardino. The only
passengers who escaped unhurt are Porter
Asbe and wife. Their escape seems a mir
scle. They were in o state-room of the
sleeper. Mr.. Ashe has his left eye bruised
slightly. He lost 81 600 in money, which was
in his clothes, and all his personal effects and
those of his wife, who is unhurt. Every
scrap of baggage on the train was consumed ;
halt the mail was burned up, aud almost all
the express is gone. OF the dead, but not
burned, Charles Pierson, express messenger,
was evidently killed instantly.
HE HAD HOLE THROUGH HIS TEMPLE.
Colored porter Wright lived four hours. He
was conscious, but in the greatest agony up
to the time of his death. A Corones's jury
was summoned, and was still in progress
when your correspondent lsft Tehachapi on
the train bringing down the dead and wound.
ed. A considerable amount of money was
found in the vicinity of the disaster. Jewelry
of all kinds, rings, watches, bracelets, were
picked up and tagged with the number Of the
berth, where found, as nearly as could be as
Ger rtained. The bodies and parts Of bodies
were similarly numbered. 1t is hoped by
this means to identify at least some of the
remains. The numbers of some of the berths
had TO be guessed at, as nothing was left OF
the cars but the ironwork end the trucks.
The train with the bodies and the wounded
reached Los Angeles tonight. The railroad
depot was surgiug mass of
ANXIOUS AND EXCITED PEOPLE,
Waiting for the train to come in. When it
arrived they could hardly be kept back. Dfs.
Kurtz and Ross advised that the wounded re-
main in the car at the depot Till morning,
which was done. The bodies were taken
charge of BY undertakers and removed from
the car. They will be kept several days, in
order to enable every means of Identification
to be tried. The hodiss of Pierson and 9TH
ers who were killed, but not burned, will be
buried. Pierson leaves a young wife, to whom
be had been married but few months
Wright leaves a large family. Miss Squires
was on her way from Sacramento to visit her
uncle, j. @. McMullep, general manager of
the Chicago and Alton Railroad. who was
spending some time at the Sierra Madre Villa
for his health. The entire fair has cast the
deepest gloom over the community. All
along the liue of the railroad crowds were
collected at each station, waitiEg for the
passing train. Every possible care is being
shown to the sufferers. Numbers of people
expecting relatives crowded around the pas
sengers, asking if they were on the train
Each fears his friend or brother or relative
may be among the fourteen unidentified. It
ia learned from Porter Ashe that he was
walked up by the swaying motion of the cars
and succeeded in extricating himself and
wife by breaking pane CT glass in the
drawing room in which they were.
MAIL DESTROYED.
The train carried from this city one pouch
IF registered letters for st. Louis, Missouri
and about hundred small packages of reg
stered letters for various other places; also
.hree bags of papers for Colorado and New
Mexico, four bags of letters and sixteen bags
Of papers for Lathrop and Los ANGLER, two
bags of papers for Los Angeles and seven
bags for Yuma and Arizona City railroad
POST ffices, making total of Eve bags of
letters, including the bag containing regis
tered letters for st. Louis. and twenty-nine
bags of newspapers. The mail was imecrtaut
and unusually full, containing letters and
printed matter for Los Angeles, San Bernar-
dino ami all Postofices south of those points
Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, o portion Of
Colorado and the State of Sonora, Mexico.
The greater portion of the mail was de.
stroyed by the fire.
PROBABLE VICTIM.
FRESNO, January 2lst.-Dr. Carson, q
young physician, who took the train at this
place Friday night for Los Angeles, is sup
posed to be one of the victims of the recent
railroad accident near Tehachapi