The morning call., 1894-10-03


| fence side of the track and landed in the
mud and just then the car swaved and
went over, carrying with it at least thirty
passengers. The others had jumped from
the front and rear of the car.
| He says his friend George Gilmore
rushed to the rear platform. but was not
in time to Jump and was carried down
| with the car. He fell with one leg under
the car. but succeeded in extricating him.
SELF Gilmore was taken home on san
Pablo avenue and it was thought he re-
ceived more severe internal Injuries.
| Captain j. c. Wilson of the well-known
coal firm OF j. c. Wilson & Co. went down
with the car and received bad bruises
| about the nose. head and face, and also
about the body. DR.. Dunn attended him.
| "A. Gilbert also went over with the car.
he will also long remember the tip from
bruises about the head and body which he
| received.
The experience Of Captain Wilson was
peculiar. He rushed for the door and
some big man barred the way, went out
anead of him and slammed the cardo0r In
| his face just as the smoker tumbled off the
| trestle.
| After the car tUmbled and settled the
| door sprung open, and the imprisoned
passengers clambered out of both windows
and doors and headed ashore through the
mud with the help Of those passengers
who had jumped off.
It was not until the night had worn
along and darkness had come that the
search for any who might be killed was
| begun.
The boats from the ferry were brought
| into reQuisitioD, and a search revealed the
| fact that at least one life had been sacri-
| feed, for the searchers in the partly sub
merged car announced to the crowd which
| thronged about the place that mans
body had been found. Then there were
many anxious inquiries. for several men
were missing by friends.
The body found was that Of young
man. 1t was wedged partly through a
| window, the head and one leg tightly
! TANNED down through the window and
into the soft mud.
A hasty search revealed the fact that
the body was that of Thomas j. Kiley, a
| ticket agent for the Denver and Rio
Grande at IA Montgomery street, San
Francisco.
Tender hands removed the muddy. drip
ping remains, and they were put in boat
and taken to the Franklin-street wharf,
where the dead-wagon met them and took
them ND TO the morsue. At the mOrgue a
large crowd had gathered. An examina-
ton showed that the poor fellows skull
had been fractured, besides his arms and
neck showed bad bruises, and tits thought
there were internal injuries.
Kiley is single man of % and lives
street. He was engaged 70 be married to
daughter of Captain Callaghan, living
on Sixth street.
After securing Kiley's body the search
for the missing was discontinued for the
night.
There are number of other persons
who were known TO be on the car who
have not appeared at home at late hour.
A daughter of n. G. Simmons of 46C
| Tweuty-trst street came to the morgue al
10 o'clock looking for her father. He was
on the car and sat in a seat with Isham
Case. ticket agent, and the daughter was
fearful that he was lost
Mrs. Price of 534 Fifteenth street was in
the big crowd at the scene of the accident
late last night looking for her son. who
usually arrived on that train.
The searchers in the car brought to lighI
a silver cane headed with the initials m
Z. H." on the handle. also 4 silk hat, and
the owners of these it is feared are still
underneath the car. which is at this hour
lying on its side with several feet of water
III il.
There are thousand theories afioat a:
to just how tine accident occurred.
Superintendent Fillmore says il is I'M
accountable how all the train could pas;
over that switch and only the rear truck,
of the last car jump off. The railroad
people scout the idea that the tower-mar
at First street threw open the switch be
fore the car got fully over it. They say ht
had no reason to do anything of the sort
hut the general opinion is that is how tn,
accident occurred.
At lae hour there was still dens,
crowd at the scene, but the narrow-gaugt
locals had quit running when the acciden
occurred The people came and went il
crowds. and it took several policemen Il
keep tie throngs back that pressed owe
both the railroad and wagon bridges
which stand side by side.
The search for the dead who are Ger
tainIy thought to be under the car will b.
continued early this morning, when tn
tide recedes and the wrecking-car arrive
to lift the car.
At midnight there was still big crow,
hanging about the morgue. The railroa,
company is roundlv denounced Tor no
getting the car nut early, instead OF lei
ting it remain 10 the mud III night. Their
seemed 10 be no management at all at tn
, scene of the disaster. The accident oc
Cured at sos O'Clock and it was not unit
! after 9 O'Clock that the body of poor Kile
!, was taken from the overturned car.
. The scene was scarcely five minutes
run from the narrOw-yange yards. and
, wrecking train could have been broug!
up in very short order and the car remove
long before the tide covered it. But ever
, one who had any authority seemed (
, have lost bis head.
. Over three hours had passed before til
BODY was reached, but the railroad peopl
did nothing more than wait for the turn c
q the tide. and the car still lies where it fe
and will not be moved until this morning
Z Officer Lamping is one of the searcber
. who entered the car to look for bodies an
, help dig out poor kiley. He said that tn
\ interior of the car was an absolute wrecl
= Windows were all smashed, seats WEI
turned upside down and the interior wor
twisted in all conceivable shapes.
o Kiley, he said, was so tightly wedged |
. that the woodwork had TO be cut ava
!, with saws and axes by the light of lantern
= The mans body and his head and shou