Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-08-30
WRECKED.
A Passenger Train and Freight
 Collide.
Several Men Badly Wounded and
 Some May Die.

} Yesterday afternoon about , o'clocl news was flying around town that there had been a collision near Pantano ir
 which many had been hurt, though
 the reports were very vague It Wa:
 said some had been killed, others hurt
 different numbers being reported at diff ferent times. A special train of an en-
 zine, box car and caboose was soon made
 uP, and sDoctors Handy, Hollowbush
 and Spencer, also some railroad men
 left for the scene. Arriving there q
 terrible sight greeted their eyes. Men
 maimed and bleeding, were laid out
 alongside the track, moaning and crying
 with pain. Cars were splintered up, and
 tlmbers were lying in all directions.
 The physicians immediately commenced
 alleviating the victims sufferings, and
 finished their labors in about three
 hours. The men were laid on car doors.
 caboose hunks, etc. After some delay
 In fixing track, the train started at 9:15.
 The accident occurred four miles this
 side of Pantano, in Deep Rock Cut. A
 work train>had been engaged in filling
 small .washouts, and about 1 o'clock
 started back for Pantano, to take the
 switch there and let the passenger by.
 Who IS to blame cannot be definitely
 stated, but train 20 was already past
 Pantano, bearing down on them at the
 usual speed run down the grade there, at
 the time they started. The road makes
 sharp curve just above the place of
 accident. On rounding it at good speed
 the engineer and fireman were thun- der struck to see the caboose of the
 work train rapidly approaching. Al
 most instantly, before there was any time to jump, they had crashed into the i'll lated train. Fireman Dick Dockham says that he just saw the train ahead. and looked at Engineer Bruce, who was already working the air brakes, when they were in the wreck. The cars were knocked every way, and all lin an instant. Those in the wreck say they can tell nothing of it. A crash and all was over. Men were lying Jammed in the timbers of the wrecked cars, many of them injured. The cars were In splinters. the beautiful engine was sadly disigured. The first thoughts were of the wounded men. who were as we'll cared for as was possi- ole, until the special with the physicians arrived. The engine of the wreck train, which was not damaged, was run back to Esmend, from which place the news of the disaster was sent in.
 It IS to be wondered at that the en- glneer and fireman were not hurt. for they escaped without scratch. Not so witt the work train. On it were the gang of men who had been engaged in filllng the late washouts. They were sitting on the cars, some smoking, some converslng, glad of little rest from toll. when the next they knew, they were scattered Tn all directions, some being fastened down by tlmbers, injured and suffering. Many of them were Mexicans, who had been sitting on the edge of the tiat cars, their feet hanging of the side. | Three of them had both legs broken. 1 Accounting for it, it is probably that they had got their legs caught by the cars being crushed together, resulting in the breaking of both limbs.
 Assistant road master F. s. Lloyd was the worst injured, his skull being badly | fractured. He saw the train coming. | and jumped, but before he could get l away was struck by the flying timbers. | Two other Americans, section foremen. | and Mexican were hurt, making seven i In all. Jas. Meade, a brakeman, was standing in the middle of the caboose. | and had miraculous escape from in stant death, being also injured about | the head, though not seriously. A brakeman named Beck was standing on | the caboose step, and jumped of in | tune to escape. The engine of the pass enger, No. 35S, the finest on the road. was not thrown from the track, but was somewhat wrecked The pilot was smashed of, as was the headlight and smokestack. The cab windows were broken out. The men Tn the train can be very thankful that they escaped with thelr lives, as they came near being blown lhto eternity, by the explosion of | the boiler. Had the timbers of the derrick car gone one foot farther the tiue sheet would have been broken, and the loss of life which must have ensued would have been fearful.
 The wounded men,arrived here a, 1915 o'clock last night, four of them being in the freight car and three in the caboose. Conveyances were waiting, and the men were carefully lifted out and taken i'm medIately to the hospital. The first taken care of was F. L.. Lloyd, who was Tn precarious condition.
 The next conveyance took two Ameri- cans whose names could not be learned, who were loaded i'll carefully side by side. Next came Mexican named Jose Ve- Iasco, who was on a board too wide to be placed ln the carryall, so he was put to one side. He made pitlfully comical slgnt, as he lay on his board, camly smoking a brown paper cigarette, both legs oandaged up, and tied together. The next to be removed was another Mexlcan, named Santiago Montielles, a boy, who was loaded in carryall. The other two Mexicans were placed in wagons, the man who had been put to one side being given roornier 
 Following are the names of the in- jured men:
 F. L. Llyod, skull fractured, serious lY hurt.
 Two section foreman, names not learned seriously hurt.
 Jose Velasco, both legs broken. below knee.
 Inez Harainia, both legs broken. Santiago Montiellss, boy, both legs broken. A Mexican whose name could not be learned, bruised about the body.
 Jas. Meade, injured about the head. One or the carryalls, in which was Santiago Montielles, got stuck in the mud on the hospital road, making it necessary to unload him. and finish the , journey in another conveyance.
 The river between here and the hos pital has risen so by last nights rain as to make the road to the hospital again 
 The passengers were somewhat , alarmed at the shock. The train. doubled with the 20 due yesterday. ar, irving here at 6 o'clock this mornino It consisted of 10 cars. It was held st . 'he station till 1 o'clock to-day. by a n1t1 A.~AA IL