The morning call., 1895-01-06

Bile. Poor Harry Hubbard! l never realized
so thoroughly how helpless the trainmen are
and the passengers, too. Do not give me up.
At1:30 postscript was added, as fol-
lows:
A friend has just left. lie came to tell me
more of the particulars of the accident and TO
advise me 70 leave and get away from II all.
But 1 cannotdo that-it would he too cowardiy.
/ must walt the investigation and receive my
verdict.
The train bearing the bodies of the vic
tins reached Oakland at 3 P. NJ. yesterday.
Efforts were Immediately made to get all
the news possible of the catastrophe.
Among the passengers on the Inflated
train was Mr.. Dennis of Modesto. In
speaking of the wreck he said: -Four of
US were seated together playing cards
when the shock came. 1t was not at all
hard, as We were going very slow, not
more than i've miles an hour. 1t was so
slight that my first thought was that we
had run into slide, or maybe rock The
stop was as If the engine had run into
earth. Some one informed us that we had
run into another train. We got out then
to investigate. We found the engine, ter-
der. mail and express car in the tunnel,
but could see very little, owing to the
smoke and escaping steam. 1t was half
an hour before the volume of steam had
cleared up so any one could go into the
tunnel.
"In half an hour the engine was reached
and a fearful sight was presented % our
view. The two locomotives were damned
together as two mighty giants in the death
struggle. The tender Of our train had
telescoped into the engine, and there was
the engineer pinned in between his re-
verse lever and the hot boiler head, unable
to move. He was suffering all the agonies
a man could. and begged those around to
end his sufferings by killing him, but this
no one could do. The escaping steam had
boiled him from the waist down, and the
pain must have been the most intense man
ever suffered He lived about an hour
from the time the accident occurred. He
was conscious up TO the very last minute.
The fireman was not to be found it now
seems, although we supposed they found
him on the ground under the train, but
this was some one else. The man evil
IDENTIFY fell from the tender when the two
engines came together. He lived only a
moment after he was found, and did not
make any statement as far as | know.
The fireman was found this morning in the
tender under the maiicar, which had been
telescoped over the tender to the front of
the engine"
Another passenger was knight of the
grip named Davis. He was en- route to
San Francisco from Los Angeles. Said
he: 81 WAS sitting in my seat asleep when
suddenly l slipped down on the floor.
This awakened me and got out the best
could and began to investigate. No one
was injured in the car or in any of the
others except one elderly lady who, like
me, was asleep and had her head thrown
forward against a seat. She received a
black eye. but was not otherwise injured.
Outside all was confusion, and it was
some time before we knew just how bad
the accident really might be.
I'VE were in bad luck on this trip. We
had got as far as Brentwood and had to
back to Tracy and were getting along
nicely when the accident occurred. We
were taken back the second time 10 Tracy
and rem aimed there until this morning at
II o'clock when We made fresh start and
are now SAFE"
AS""C Diiu VI meIcou WAS also pas
senger on the wrecked train.
He says that the passenger train
was running quite slowly when the col
lsion with the work train occurred and
that the shock was no greater than he has
often experienced when the air-brakes
were applied quickly. The engines met
head on. and the postal-car was telescoped
by the tender of the engine. Both engines
were badly demolished, but none of the
coaches were destroyed, nor did they leave
the track.
Three persons were killed-Engineer
Hubbard ana Fireman Sehramm of the ex-
press and an unknown man whom they
had permitted to ride on the engine and