Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-03
Funeral of the Victims Raising the
Wrecked Engine.

Wrecked Engine.
OAKLAND, June 2d.-The interest in the
disaster of Friday has by no means SUBJ
sided, and yesterday and to-day crowds
still lowered about the scene, watching the
efforts to raise the submerged engine and
tender. The investigations of the Coroner's
jury, which begin this afternoon, are
awaited with interest, and public senti.
ment demands that it be searching one
Funeral services were held in Oakland yes.
terday for four of the victims.
A sad scene took place at the parlors Of
the Hotel Crellin at P. M yesterday
when the funeral service of the Episcopal
Church was conducted by Rev. DIR. Gray OF
the Church of the Advent, over the remains
of Henry S. Austin and his daughter
Florence NJ. Austin. The members of the
bereaved family, the widowed wife and
fatherless children were almost Frustrated
by the burden of grief.
A select quartet sang abide With Me-
and Some Sweet Day By and By" At
the conclusion of the service the floral COW
cred caskets were conveyed to Sixteenth.
street station. from which they were taken
to Stockton.
FUNERAL SERVICES.
The funeral of ]. R. Irwin was conducted
from his residence, $50 Twenty-second
street, by the Rev. ]. NJ Van Every, OF the
Thirty fourth Street Methodist Church,
and was largely attended.
Another grief-stricken household was
that of E. r. Robinson, whose funeral took
place from the undertaking parlors of G. E.
Bloomfield, on San Pablo avenue. Mrs.
DR.. J. w. Nicholas, Spiritualist preacher,
conducted the services, and the remains
were taken to Mountain View Cemetery
for interment. At the grave pathetic
scene took place when, at the request of
the relatives, the coffin was raised after it
had been lowered into the grave, that the
wife and daughter might take last look at
the dead.
Rev. T. A. Horton, D. D., preached last
evening upon some lessons from the disas-
ter, taking for his text the words of Sam
uel, 'tThere is but step between me and
DEATH" He drew the lesson that man
should be prepared in life for the final
summons, which might come at any mo.
ment
RAISING THE ENGINE.
All this forenoon the force of workmen
under the direction of Master Mechanic
Mckenzie, wrecking crew under Henry
W. Watkins and a diver named Martin
were engaged in efforts to raise the sub.
merged engine by means of cross beams
from scows moored above the spot where
the engine sunk. The tender, which was
run ahead of the engine, went over first
and the engine over that. 1t was found
by the diver to be lying on its side, and
the chains were attached for the purpose OF
raising ii. A large crowd watched the
operation of fishing for a locomotive. No
more bodies have been discovered, and it is
not believed that there are any in the
wreck.
THE coRoNER's INQUEST.
SAN Francisco, June 2d.-The Coroner's
inquest in the matter of the railroad catas-
trophe in Oakland on Memorial Day began
this afternoon. Charles O'Brien, the ire
man of the wrecked train, was the first
witness. He testified that he had never
seen engineer Dunn in liquor. The draw
bridge through which the train went at
the time of the accident could be seen from
the witness side of the engine at the ship
yard, and he felt sure it was closed when
the train left there
the witness jumped, which was not until
the engine went down. He had been run
ming with the train only occasionally and
could not say at what distance the danger
signal could be discerned.
The engine had hardly any speed on
when they went through the draw, and if
they could have run ten yards further the
train would have been stopped.
Bridge-tender Dunlap testified that the
train was not in view when he opened
the draw, though it could have been seen
at the mole. He thought it was
coming at a high rate of speed
when about $50 yards distant. He had
been on the bridge about fifteen months,
and thought the engineer could see the
signal about 300 feet away. He was closing
the draw when the accident occurred.
The signal flag, which was produced in
evidence. was placed about 260 feet from
the edge of the draw The engine ap.
preached the draw at the rate of five OF
seven miles an hour. The bridge was in
sixteen feet of being closed.