The herald., 1896-04-24
SAN BERNARDINO
A Railway Accident Wh,cn flight Have Been
WOrse-NOtes


Worse-Notes
SAN BERNARDINO. April 23.--The
side bar connecting the driving wheels of
the Santa Fe locomotive attached to the
Chicago limited became disconnected from
the front driver on Tuesday evening, and
in an instant the long steel bG was re-
volving at terrific speed, and at each revo.
luton was clipping off portions of the side
of the cab, for the end of the bar was thus
swinging free.
The Chicago limited was coming 'down
tee hill, and had just passed Verdemont
when the accident occurred. The engineer
was running without steam, as is usual in
coming down the grade, and was making
good progress, when without any warning
the pin holding the side bar in place to the
front driving wheel broke, and left the long
arm of polished steel to swing free from
the axle of the rear driver.
Engineer Dibble of Los Angeles, who was
on the run, ia alive today because at that
particular instant he was out of his seat on
the right side of the cab, leaning over
toward the center OF the engine. Had he
been in his seat he would certainly have
been crushed, and nothing could have
saved him. As it was, he caught the force
of the first revolution of the bar ON his
right arm, which was broken in two places.
The train was stopped as soon as possl-
BILE and the bar removed. The train then
Engineer Dibble was put into the baggage
car, made as comfortable as possible and
taken on through to Los Angeles.
The right side of the cab was cut off
smoothly and must be rebuilt.
ONE MORE FOR THE DESERT
Tho desert has claimed another victim,
and its bleaching sands give back the
skeleton, but no word of the human being
whose life it took. Constable Asa Green,
who came in from Barstow yesterday even
ing, reports having made the discovery
early this week, while inspecting some
mines in the vicinity of Siberia, which is
the first station west of Bagdad, on the
Atlantic and Pacific.
The discovery was made near what is
known as Dead Mans Point, about five
miles from Siberia and near the mines
which Green was prospecting. While
looking about in the vicinity, Green's at
tention was attracted to some bones which
were scattered about on the sands.
closer investigation revealed The fact
that they were the bones of a human be-
ing. and when more cal eful search was
made, all the principal bones of the ske!e-
ton were found, but with it nothing what
ever which might serve to identify them or
the unfortunate who died there and alone.
The only thing in the line of clothing
which could be found was a shred of blue
overall goods. Everything else was gone,
and with it the hope of finding who the
dead man was.
Green gathered up the bones and took
them to Barstow, where they were in
tered.
JUDGE HUSE'S CASE
Judge Huse's case is on again today, and
it has been enlivened by the presence of
three experts on insanity, coming from
Los Angeles, and j. A. johnson of San
Francisco, at present a special correspond
ont of the San Francisco Call. He is
nearly SO years of age and an intelligent
and thoroughly well posted man. In 1860
he founded the Santa Barbara Press, and
for seven years thereafter he was Its ed
itor and publisher, and during that time he
and Judge Huse were each others most in
timate and confidential friends. On the