The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-15
Additional Force of Surgeons
Summoned to Care for
the Injured.
JURORS PLACING THE BLAME.
Timbers Over the Stream Found to
Have Been Weak-Story of a
Survivor.


Der OF wounded were taken to the Arcata
Sanitarium and others are being cared for
at the homes of friends or relatives. AT
10 O'Clock last light the corps of physicians
already in attendance was found to be in
adequate to promptly minister to the sui
ferers. Additional aid was procured from
Eureka in Drs. Gross, McKinnon, Felt,
Sinclair and Wallace.
The number of dead is now FIVE. They
are: Annie Holland, Ada Kirkham,
Brakeman Alexander Cameron and the
two children of David Wood. Mrs.
Gregori and child and Engineer George
Burke are not expected to live through
the night. Many of those who appeared
slightly hurt last night are to-day con-
fined to their beds. New maladies in
duced by internal injuries are developing
continually. 1t is believed the list of
dead will be increased to ten names.
At korbel, the end of the line prepara-
tions were being made during the night to
run wrecking train. Bright and early this
morning the wreckers arrived at the
scene of the accident. It was their inten-
ton TO prepare the track so that the
United States mail could pass. Nothing
was done, however, until the Coroner had
finished the taking of testimony and in
speeding the timbers OF the bridge. Over
the perpendicular banks the wreckers
made their way to the bed of the river on
the blood-stained rocks of which the
debris of the diminished train was heaped.
Nothing remained intact; everything was
smashed into splinters.
Louis Everding, manager OF the River
side Mill and Lumber Company, was in
terviewed to-day at the scene of the dis
aster by a CALL representative. He was
in the last car which crashed through the
urestle to the rocky river bed, forty feet
nf wit mt
a scratch. When questioned concerning
his miraculous escape, Mr.. Everding said:
81 attribute it to the cigar which / was
smoking. 1t was long one, and waited
in the smoker to finish it, intending to
enter the next car and chat with Miss
Holland We lived at the same station
and were we'll acquainted. ! had Just
risen from the seat when l heard a crack
ing noise. Then came q deafening roar,
above which could be beard the shrieking
of terrified passengers. The cause OF the
appalling din flashed through my mind
in an instant and l waited patiently for
the end. 1t seemed like an age and my
thoughts came thick and fast. To me in
those few seconds 1t was like being whirled
through miles of space"
When asked his first thought after really
ing what happened, Eyerding answered:
81 remember il distinctly and it was this:
That in case of my death / would leave my
wife and child an insurance policy large
enough to keep them from want. Then
my ideas became mixed.
when the train started downward" he
resumed, az was near the car door. Be-
fore 1 knew anything more the safe used
by Wells. Fargo d Co. had wedged me
into a corner. Then what a noise! We
had reached the rocks. l was hurled out
OF the open door and remained uncon-
scious for a few seconds. The air was
filed with dust and flying splinters. The
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were people around me il all positions,
but no one moved. Then it came to me
that they were not all dead, but merely
stunned. Broken timbers hanging to the
bridge were vigorously swinging to and
fro like pendulums. Every once in while
one would fall to the earth.
81 called to know If all were dead and
heard cries for help. Then, with the as
sistance of Fireman Burke, whom liber-
ated from the wreck did all that could
to remove the dead and relieve the suffer-
ing. The first body I saw was that
her instantly, for her neck was broken.
If had finished my cigar five seconds
sooner would certainly have been killed
IN the same manner"
Mr.. EVerding believed that the bridge
was safe enough, and that the engine must
have jumped the track, as he had known
four times the weight of the collapsed
train 10 have passed over the bridge dur
ing the last week.
Every one is loud in praise of Lou Ever
ding's bravery and perfect coolDess. Be-
sides many wounded who were benefited
by his timely aid, two persons were saved
by him from certain death. They are
Mrs. Edward Minor and Henry Burke.
The former was being Strangled to death
by massive cross beam and Burke was
being crushed under the debris.
ALI of the train employees are either
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who were interviewed were 10th to express
their opinion regarding the cause of the
disaster. Engineer Burke, who is ex.
p ected to die form the effects of scalds re-
ceived from the bursting Of the boiler, at
tributes the calamity to the weakness of
the cross beams, some of which are much
oecayed. The crew which operated the ILL
lated train was not the regular shift, but
belonged to logging train, the regular
crews being relieved on Sunday.
The revised list of the wounded, as
learned from visiting physician, is as
follows:
Mrs. Edward Minor, daughter of Thomas
DevliD, fusion candidate for the Assembly,
fracture of the kneejoint and left arm
broken. She is also suffering from scalp
wounds.
The Misses Vintera, nieces of Anton
Korbel, one OF the owners of the road,
badly injured. Annie suffered a broken
leg and Mary is in a critical condition from
broken RIB and internal injuries.
Dan Mahoney of Blue Lake, suffering
from fractured rib. His young child's
jaw is broken.
George Burke, the engineer, is horribly
burned about the hips and is rapidly sink
ing.
A sad case is that of the family of David
Wood, the bookkeeper, at Glendale. He
has broken RIB and cash on the head
from ear to ear. His vile is suffering from
broken hip and fractured pelvis bone.
His youngest child is badly injured about
the head, and Sidney, bright three-year-
old girl, cannot recover.
An Italian family named Gregori figures
III another sad case. The mother has a
depressed fracture OF the Uranium, and her
upper left arm is broken. She has been
unconscious since the accident. and little
hopes are entertained for her recovery.
One child has a broken arm and the baby