The San Francisco call., 1896-10-14

amman OH lau cneSts anu lhoii, HO'
being able to find young Oyer, who was
calling for help, he rushed up the en-
bankment and ran for mule and hal1 10
a farmhouse and procured lantern ana
ak. When he reached the scene or tne
accident he was almost exhausted, but ne
had enough strength to summon the boys
to help lit the heavy wagonette OH from
those under il.
"It was an awfully dark night" said he
TODAY. 1--WE could not see our own horses
at times, and the dust made it all the
worse. We were about fifty yards behind
the first wagonette with the girls IN 1t. l
was on the second seat-the seat Frank
Over rode oD-but on the left side. We
fell over to the right, the front wheels 60
ing first. Everybody yelled as soon as we
commenced to go. JustsaS soon as we nit
that culvert l jumped. would have done
it before, but did hot have chance, for
not one of us had any idea OF capslZlng
until we went over. AS i was about clear
OF the rig / heard something snap and
down we plunged again. l was thrown
away out on the branches OF the trees. but
still held on to the canopy, because did
not know where / was.
"When we struck bottom l was pinned
under the canopy, but it did not take me
long to get out. l could hear the boys
yelling for help, especially Frank Oyer.
l seemed right near him, yet could not
quite locate him. He called me by name and
implored me to help him, saying that he
could not move. The horses were making
such an awful noise kicking and strug-
Cling that / backed out of the wreck. l
saw young Rich with horse on top of
him, so L tried to get the animal off and
finally succeeded. This horse was dead,
for it did not move after l rolled 1T off.
called to Oyer that [ could uot find him,
but that | knew where we were and L
would run and get a lantern and an ak.
I'm the meantime one boy had sue
ceeded in extricating himself, and know
ing the other rig to be not far ahead he
ran down the road and told its occupants
what had happened.
when l was starting for the farmers s
house I met the ladies ali coming back,
but l did not stop running until l reached
the -ancher's house. When l returned the
boys had gotten young Oyer out from
under the wagon and had him up on the
road. There was so much confusion that
no one seemed 20 know whether there
were any more of the boys under the rig
or not, so l got some of the boys and went
down into the gulch and lifted the wagon
over. Every horse but one was dead.
can't say how the accident occurred, only
that the road was too narrow along there
and that 1t was awfully dark and dusty"
Mrs. Gallaner, who chaperoned the girls
clear account of the awful state of affairs
when she arrived at the scene of the acci-
dent.
'"1he girls were allsssinging," said she,
land l noticed that the boys were very
quiet, but attributed it 10 their being
tired after their game. 1t was very dark
in the canyon, but on the level the moon
shone brilliantly. The road was dusty,
but exceptionally so along the grade
n > l,a = 4haf
with the driver, and l could not see the
leaders for the dust. We drove very
slowly all the way, and especially around
this place. | noticed the gulch as we
passed, and also noticed how extremely
slow our driver passed the place. heard
the crash, but supposed tGat it was the
boys catching branches as they passed
and breaking them. l also heard them
yell, but we did not stop until Yonng
Hart came running up and said, For
Gods sake stop; We are all nearly dead
I'VE then stopped the team ana all
went back to the guIch. On our way we
met John Wiley running down the road,
but he would not stop. When we reached
the gulch, which was about fifty yards
from where we stopped our team, could
hear the boys calling for help, but it was
so dark l could not see how the wagonette
lay in the gulch. The boys told me Frank
Oyer was under the wagon ana horses,
but that they could not find him in the
darkness. They had very few matches, so
/ took of one of my white skirts and
burned it. This served the purpose OF a
torch admirably, and with its light we
could sea poor Frank Oyer pinned down
under one wheel. a horse was very near
him and kicking wildly, while one was on
top of the lad. All this time he was call
ing for US to help him, and the
young boys were working manfully
to remove the distractions, but to no
avail. Oyer called to one of the boys say
ing, I'll die if you don't help me- That
was enough, and with superhuman effort
they succeeded in eXtrlcating him, but
when we got him to the top of the en-
bankment he was dead. / believe he
breathed just once after they brough. him
up. Some of the girls had made fire by
this time, and everything was done to re-
suscitate him, but all to no avail.
Several of the girls got down into that
gulch to help, too, and acted nobly under
the awful excitement. The road was in
deed very narrow and very dusty, but | do
not believe that it was carelessness at all
on the driver part but that he could not
see Our team helped to raise the dust
which settled over the Boyd vehicle"
Eddie Rich, the 15-year-old son of the
Marshal of Pacific Grove, was one of the
most seriously injured. He said: when
We went over was on IDe ITOQC seat, next
to Charles Little, the driver. l tried to
Jump, but could not. When we struck the
bottom OF that gulch l thought we had
fallen nearly 100 feet. l thought that
everybody was on me, except Mori, the
japanese, and found he was under me.
He told me to get off, but there was a
horse on top of me and / could not bulge
him. l kicked and yelled and scratched,
pinched and even hit the animal, but be
would not stir. He was right on my
chest, too, and the pain was intense. /
called to Johnnie Wiley, whom could
hear talking, to pull the thing off, and he
finally succeeded in doing it. / then got
up and we two released poor little Mike,
the Japanese. He had one leg wedged in
between the brakerod and the wagon and
the other on top of it. We had a hard
time getting him out.
1--WE three crawled out from under
the wreck and l tried to help the other
boys. We laid the Japanese on the ground
and he moaned for quite awhile, but we
wanted to get Over out. He was calling
all the time. Boys. 1 am in box; help
me, won't your Young Oyer stayed
under that wagon for nearly an hour be-
fore we could get him out, and when we
did finally succeed he lived only about
three minutes. His neck was broken and
a horse must have kicked him. l think
he was smothered, too, by the dust kicked
nm hv the horses