The morning call., 1890-11-14
THROUGH ATRESTLE.
Accident to the Southern Pa
CidC Overland Train.
Five Persons Killed and Nearly all The
Passengers Injured.
Corrected List Of the Casualties - SAD
Scenes at the Wreck The Railroad Com
pany CeHsursd by a COroner'S Jury.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

Of the long trestle crossing what is known
as Lake Laba5h, about half mile north Of
the Chemawa Indian TIaining-school, five
miles from Salem.
The trestle must have given away as soon
as the engine struck it, and the train and
q the trestle all went down together. The
engine was overturned and half buried al
most in the mud.
Following this were the tender, mail, bag
gage ond express cars, twisted and broken
entirely out Of shape.
Then followed the frst-class day coach,
which was saved from going over by alight-
ing with the front end on an old tree broken
off even with the trestle. The seats in the
car were every one broken to splinters, and
the partitions were broken into thousands
of pieces. Then followed the smoker, the
seats in which were nearly all broken
Back Of this was the tourist sleeper, in
which were some twenty-five or thirty pas
sengers. OF tits number only three were
uniu jured. Next was the Pullman car
Alatia. with seventeen passengers, and
only thres escaped without injury. The
next and last car was the Pullman Rose
Durg in which were fifteen passengers.
Only four of these got off with slight
bruises. In the smoker and day coaches
every seat was occupied, and the proportion
of injured was larger, if possible, than that
of the ears following, as the wreck was the
most disastrous from the front end on &C.
count Of the mail, express and baggage cars
overturning.
The only thing that kept the train from
burning was the fact that the trestle and
track went down almost perpendicularly
with it and none of the passenger cars were
overturned. 4 tramp who was riding on
the trucks Of the express car was found
mangled, making the fourth victim. The
total number of deaths from this accident
will probably reach as high as ten, as many
have sustained what is feared Will prove
internal injuries. The names Of several
could not be obtained.
SCENES AT THE WRECK.
Fires were built near the wreck to keep
the wounded from chilling through in the
cold fog. Laid out on the ground we're the
nangled corpses recovered from the wreck.
Reclining on impr0vised beds about the
fires were the wounded, who had been taken
from the coaches, While standing about,
rendering what assistance they could, were
these less seriously wounded, and around
these and everywhere were The crowds who
had come TO help or from curiosity. In the
coaches. slanting on the fallen treStle-wOrk,
were the same scenes, every available
cushion being occupied by some unfortunate
one more or less injured. As soon as the
doctors lIom Salem arrived, at about II 10
o'clock, tIey set about dressing the wounds
and administering to the needs of the in
juTed
PASSENGERS THEORY.
One OF the passengers thus described the
wreck: 81 was in the day coach next TO
the baggase-car. About S:15 the first thing
l heard was men remarking that the engi-
Deer had given the danger signal. | then
felt jar as when an engine goes forward at
4 higher rate of speed then there was
crash of cars collding with each other. My
theory of the wreck is that the engine
struck some obstacle on the track and went
OF. The great crash came when the engine
was in the middle OF the treste and the cars
began TO buckle and this caused the
stringers to break, and the trestle fell fat.
When we got the first jar 1t felt as though
the engine had struck something. Ny next
experience was that was struck by some
thing. The car fell fiat with tile bents Of
the treStle, which seem to have fallen for
ward like house of cards. found my hat
covered with blood, and worked some fifteen
minutes before l was overcome"
AMONG THE WOUNDED.
The scenes at Salem following last nights
disaster are most mournful At 80 o'clock
this morning a train arrived from the wreck
bearing the killed and wounded, and hun
dIeds of Salem people were in attendance to
help carry them on stretchers to the VILLAIN
cite Hotel, which was converted into hos
pital for the time being. Undertakers' vans
sto0d at the depot grounds with their sug-
gestve reeeptacles. Long files of men only
slightly crippled walked slowly toward the
hotel supported on either side by a helpful
citizen or railway employe. Men and women
with faces blackened, bloody and bruised
were carried OUT on Stretchers, apparently
unconscious or resting after the horrors Of
the night. 1t took an hour 10 unload two
cars OF the unfOrtunates.
The following is a corrected list Of the
killed and wounded:
Killed
McFADDEN, JOHN, engineer.
FINNEAL, =, fireman.
GREIBEL, c., Milwaukee, Wis.
Injured.
DIR. Hammi and wife, of PHILADELPHIA.
Just returning from trip around the world
were shaken up but not seriously injured.
Oregon, sprained shoulder.
REV. FATHER b. CHAMPAGNE, Catholic
missionary of the diocese. going to Lake
view, shoulder slightly hurt.
CAPTAIN JACK CRAWFORD, the poet
seoul Vi L OH OIdIS, ~. MIA, Injured In the
hip.
Mr.. AND Mrs. d. L. KIMBERLY of Nee
nah, Wis; one of Mr.. Kimberly's legs is
paralyzed and he has received internal in-
Iuries. Mrs. Kimberly has sprained back
and black eye.
S. NJ. YoRAN of Eugene, Oregon; struck
on the chest and has great difficulty in
breathing, but Is able TO be around. He has
a few minor bruises, but nothing serious
j: X. SLOAN Of Eugene, Oregon; thigh
bruised and chest hurt. but can walk
5. ). WOLFE, Los Angeles; back hurt,
but can get around by careful movement
G. b. SHALLENBER, San Bernardino;
shoulder injured and eve bruised.
JOHN PENGILLY AND WIFE, Tacoma;
each had one shoulder and one hip badly
bruised, and both are unable to get around
JOHN SCHENKEL, Denver; left foot
badly mashed He was helping on the
engine. and was en- the front of the baggage
ear at the time.
WILLIAM REA of Baker City, Oregon;
head slightly cut He is sick with con-
sumption.
Mrs: CAROLINE EvESsoN, aged 80. from
Christiana, Norway. bound for San Fran
cisco; internal injuries.
c. A. CovALr, Oakland; hurt in the leg
and arm, but not severely injured.
II. SAKE, San Francisco; slightly
bruised, but not seriously.
DANIEL MCCARTHY Of Austin, Wash;
foot mashed and back injured.
w. a. CREEh, Kansas; ankle broken.
Bon. JAMES MCGARRY, United States
Marshal of Utah; leg broken and badly cut
about the head and face. He is bleeding
very freely, and is in a critical condition.
HARRY RAYMOND, Spokane Falls; arm
broken.
MOSES HURD, Newport; internal injuries
and side badly hurt.
c. w. carries, Pendleton, Oregon; spinal
injuries and bruises.
A. BROWN, Canada; hand sprained.
MRS. w. L; ELLIDGE, Spaugh, Washing
Mrs. T.. w. LAFRANE, Colfax, Wash, in
ternal injuries.
W. 5. HALL Spangle, WASH, spinal in
jurits.
F. M. MITCHELL. Pennsylvania. rib
broken.
c. MITCHELL. Pennsylvania. leg broken.
A. CnURsToN, Chicago, back injured
w. +. HOWELL, Oakdale, Wash, severely
bruised.
j. w. BOATMAN, wife and child, Puyal-
-Iup, WASH, badly injured, but no bones
broken.
MKs. IsAAcs, Walla Walla. bruised
H. A. SMITH, porter on the Pullman car,