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The San Francisco call., 1899-07-11

THE station signals were out correct,
and if there is any blame it lies with
those in charge of the trains. My re-
port will be made to my superiors and
to no one else"
He declined to even state whether or
not the red light should have been dis
played with q freight train on the main
track and d through special due at any
moment.
If the story told by Ben Livingston,
a plumber, and Frank Homer, be true,
some one disobeyed or failed to under
stand orders. Both reached the wreck
soon after the crash, and near the over
turned engine one found a paper, the
order to the engineer of the excursion
train. In substance it was an instruc-
ton for him to pass the freight train
at Ingomar, eight or nine miles ahead,
the freight train being instructed to go
upon a siding so as to let the special
pass The same order, so the men say
mentioned other trains to be passed
during the night and where they would
turn out to let the excursion train
go by
Railroad men subsequently got hold
of the engineers orders.
One of the most remarkable escapes
from death among the many was that
of Calvin Bullock, the porter. He
went to the front platform for a
breath of fresh air and was obliged to
grasp the railing when the air brakes
were put on. The shock of the first
impact threw - porter clear off the
cars and high into the air. He landed
all in heap just outside of the danger
line and sustained only few sprains
and bruises.
The Coroner came from Modesto and
had the bodies of the victims viewed by
a jury The inquest will be held on
Monday at o'clock in the afternoon.
The injured left for San Francisco.
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telescoped sleeper, in which it was sup
posed any number of killed were piled
up.
The illumination in the sky brought
out the volunteer Fire Department of
Newman and the men battled bravely
assisted by the train hands and fully
recovered passengers, against the on
coming flames.
A new alarm was added by the dis
covery that a tank car on a sidetrack
within few feet of the blazing wreck
was full of oil and would probably eX-
plode at any minute.
The scantily clad passengers who
had been rescued or made their way
out Of the telescOped sleeper were so
terrified at the possibility of such an
occurrence that they scampered, hat
less, coatIess and barefooted many of
them, as far away as they could get
from their i'll luck.
A call of the roll of the occupants of
the car made at this time showed that
half a dozen were not accounted for.
and the rescuers went to work to get
them out, fully convinced that four or
five dead bodies would be found. Faint
cries from the sleeper gave indications
that one or two of the missing might
be saved.
Axes were used on the top of the
sleeper nearest the tender and the
searchers came upon Miss White,
daughter of Mrs. Lena Thomas, and
| Miss May oliver, both Of whom were
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their lives and q few injuries. Two of
them, Mrs. Thomas and Miss Harris,
who were in the end berth next TO the
tender, We're killed outright. Mrs.
Thomas neck was broken, and Miss
Harris, who tainted from the shock,
was asphyxiated from the smoke which
rolled up in volumes from the burning
wreck.
Suddenly reused out of their sleep,
the lights all extinguished and water
pouring in on them from holes in the
tender, the surviving passengers, some
Of them pinned securely in their berths,
were in q frightfuI state Of panic The
first thought Of many was that they
had plunged through a bridge and
were rapidly sinking into the waters of
an unknown river. They screamed for
help. until the few that found their
senses struck matches and lit up the
wreck Then it was found that they
had stopped and all Immediate danger
was over, and all regained their full
senses and set to work to eXtricate
themselves and render what assistance
they could to others.
BY this time the wreck, surrounded
by the passengers of the other coaches,
who had merely been badly shaken up,
was a roaring furnace. The splinters
and twisted iron of the two coaches on
the combination train were blazing
fercely. The flames were licking up
the woodwork in the engine and mo-
mentarily threatening to fasten on the
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THRILLING STORES
TOLD BY SURVIVORS
Awoke1ed Suddenly, They Thought
The r Tram Had Fallen
Through a Br dge.

Nineteen of the survivors of the South
ern Pacific smash-up at Newman, Stan
islaus County, arrived in the city last
night at S;45 o'clock in care of an agent
of the company. Drs. Laine and Armstead
of Newman accompanied them. They were
taken to the Grand Hotel, and for an
hour. while they were being registered,
the hotel office was crowded with them
selves and their belongings.
It did not take the knowledge that the
party had been wrecked to make it plain
that it's members had been through a
terrible experience. Not one of them that
did not look tired and worn out, the ladies
particularly showing the effects of their
thrilling night experience. None of them
were badly injured, but all were more
or less bruised and suffered from
shock. One or two of the ladies were
swathed in bandages and all were COW
cred with the marks of travel. Several
ladies. who had lost part of their cloth
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her out. Beyond the awful shock and the
effect of the knowledge that her mother
was among the killed, Miss White was
none the worse for the few bruises she
had sustained. Miss oliver. who was
thrown out of her berth. got a badly
sprained ankle. Miss Edna English was
cut on the forehead.
All stories of the survivors agree that,
after the first confusion following the
crash and the extinguishing of the lights,
there was not the slightest panic in the
coach. The men behaved like heroes and
the ladies were self-pOssessed and helpful.
They ali got into what clothing they could
find N the darkness, intensified by the
striking of matches, and sloshed around
in the water and out on the earth as
quickly as possible, the blaze from the
fiercely burning cars of the freight train
showing them the awfulness of the death
they had narrowly and, for most Of
them, SO cheaply escaped.
The messengers of the wrecked sleeper,
who imagined a moment before that they
had crashed through a bridge and were
about to be drowned in the waters of a
river, received a second shock before they
hardly had time to feel themselves on the
solid earth. The Fire Department of
Newman. with the help of the. oc-
cupants of the other coaches of the spe-
cial, was busily engaged in stopping the
progress of the flames in the wreck, when
the alarm was passed around that
oil tank on a fatcar on another track
within a few feet of the burning locomO-
tive was full of coal oil and was likely
to explode at any moment. With one ac-
cord the scantily clad passengers ran as
far as they could to some place where
their. lives would be safe, if only for
moment till they could catch their
breath. Agents and physicians of the
railroad arrived on the scene in short
time and soon were busy caring for the
passengers until the wrecking train
should arrive. The survivors of the
wrecked coach were taken to the Russ
House at Newman, where physicians
made a hasty examination of their inju-
ries, while others assisted the firemen to
cut out from the wreckage the bodies OF
Mrs. Thomas and Miss Harris.
When the wrecking train arrived from
Oakland, another train was made up for
the city and the passengers were given
the option of coming here and being sent
to Los Angeles or going on the eight un-
injured cars of the Inflated special. All
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wedged in between the tender and the
roof Of their car. They were extricated
without much difficulty. Miss Edna
Thomas was cut out of another berth
with a saw.
In lower 13 and Il the rescuers came
upon the bodies of Mrs. Thomas and
Miss Harris. a young teacher, dead,
but not held by any Of the crushed
timbers. They were taken out and sent
to the undertaking parlors of Charles
Schank. An examination of Mrs.
Thomas showed that her neck had been
broken by the end of the tender being
forced into the berth. Miss Harris, it
is believed. died of fright or by smoke
asphyxiation. Her face was lacerated
but not seriously. She was 30 years of
age and Mrs. Thomas about 81. The in
jured people We're taken to the Russ
House, where they were cared for by
the railroads surgeons. DIR. Armistead
and Dre. Dowle and StrattOn.
While all of the unfortunates COM
planned of various pains and aches. the
physicians state they could not find any
very serious injuries, bruises. lacera-
tions and sprains being the majority of
| the ailments.
1t was daylight before the flames
were extinguished and not till they had
! deVoured two cars and all the wood
work on the engine.
OF the accident but one story is told
here. The special was coming up the
! valley at the rate of forty miles an
hour Opposite the station on the main
| track stood the combination freight
! train. it's engine at the water tank.
| Only six minutes had elapsed since 1t
| had stopped. The station signal light
| showed the white. which means "clear
| track" The engineer of the special
gave the customary two long and two
| short blasts of the whistle. and seeing
the white light kept right on. Sudden
ly he spied the stationary train, the air
brakes were applied, the lever was re-
versed. but the speed was so great that
nothing could stop the special and a
crash followed.
The specials engine ploughed half
way through the freight trains last car
and the force behind lifted the engine
and hurled it over on it's side.
Engineer r. 3. Allen and Fireman
w. f Creigh at this moment jumped
from their stations and were uniniured
TIE condition of the station lights is
causing much comment. Several of
those who were out al the time of the
collision state that when the freight
train pulled in it was given the white
light on the main track to indicate that
everything was clear on these rails.
When the specials whistle for sig
nails was heard "a glance in the direc-
ton of the station showed that the
white light for an open and clear track
still shone brightly, and Watchman ].
H. Madden remarked:
Il knew that those two trains were
going to get mixed up and somebody
get hurt
Station Master Edgar Hartwell was
questioned as to the condition of these
signal lights, but he declined to discuss
the accident or any Of it's features. He
! said:
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Crowded Special Runs Into
a Construction Train
at Newman.
SLEEPER TELESCOPED
Passengers on the Way to the Edu
oationaI Convention Victims
Of the Disaster.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

There seems to be even less
than the usual excuse for the DIS
astrouS tram wreck on the South
er0 Pacific on Monday morning.
4 SPECIAL carrying delegates to
the meeting of the National Edu-
catonaI Association, sent out BY
the Burlington r5ad, but having
the right of way crashed INTO
freight tram on the man line at a
regular stat0H-a tram which by
oil the rules of railroading, and
apparently by ITS orders, should
have been safe on a siding ten
niles away This was a gross
6lunder N giving or IN recemng
orders.
Worse even than this, m making
up the SPECIAL the Southern Pdcfc
operating department violated the
oldest rule of rohl"Oaoiag by put
ting a light tourist sleeper next
to The engine without the CUSTOM
ory protection of baggage car
to shield the sleeper m case of
Just such an accident as this.
When the collision came, death TO
some of those IN the sleeper was
inevitable. The tender of the
locomotive, with the force of the
whole momentum of the mounq
tram, was driven back through The
tourist car 1t IS little short of
marvellous that there we're no
more fatalities.
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THE INJURED none OF
them SeriouSly) are

MISS MAY OLIVER, 2232 Vir-
ginia avenue. st. Louis, Mo-,
back and ankle sprained-
MISS EDNA ENGLISH, 52S5
Washington avenue, St. Louis,
head cut.
MRS. CLARA MOREHOUSE,
211 Upton avenue, Battle Creek,
Mich, badly bruised.
ROBERT B. MILLS, Lake
Preston, South Dakota, head
slightly bruised.
MISS ELIZABETH WHITE,
Seneca Falls, slightly bruised.
MISS SALLIE r. SMITH,
1894 West Pine street. st. Louis,
bruises.
MISS GERTRUDE ROSE
BERG, 1119 Rutger street. st.
Louis, suffering from shock.
MISS LUELLA A. WELT
MILLER, 1888 Kosciusko street.
st. Louis. shock.
EDWIN D. LUCKEY, 1882
Union boulevard, st. Louis,
bruised and hands cut.
MISS F. w. MORSE, Phila-
delphia, slightly bruised.
CALVIN BULLOCK, car por-
ter, st. Louis, bruises.
S. e. ATWOOD. Phila-
delphia, slightly cut.
MRS. WORDWELL. suffering
from shock.
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II 7 EWMAN, July 1O.-Two women
passengers were killed and thir-
I teen others were injured in a
collision at 2:3S o'clock this
morning on the Southern Pa
cific main track within 300 yards
Of the railway station at this point
A special, made up Of an engine and
eight tourist coaches, carrying dele
gates to the National Educational Con-
yantion at Los Angeles, running at
forty miles an hour, struck the rear end
of a combination train, which had
been brought to q standstill at the wa
ter tank. The express crashed through
q baggage and day coach on the train
ahead. smashing these to splinters, and
setting the wreck on fire. The same
impact telescoped the tender into the
first sleeper Of the special bringing it
uD with jerk that threw every occu-
pant out who had not been jammed in
q berth by the crashing Of the timbers.
Twenty-Five passengers were sound
asleep in the telescoped car, and twen-
~ of these miraculously escaped with
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THE DEAD.

MRS. LENA THOMAS, Sc
neca Falls, N. Y.
MISS ADDIE HARRIS,
principal Of the Madison
School, st. Louis, Mo.
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-28
AvCTroN SALES.--FUTURE Days.
AUCTION sALEs-F"tuIe ''''".,.> .
WHEY HEAL ESTATE IS SOLD THh
rAxEs vOE- THE CURRENT CAi1EN-
nan WAR ARE 10 DE PAID fhO
RATA BY THE VENDOR AND THE
XENnEH
william y. PIzzIni Company,
and
c. l.. and q III. T.. Denoon,
Real Estnte AuctiOnecrS.
COMMISSIONERS AUCTION

II
~ SALE OF
DESIRABLE LOTS.
ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF GROVE
AVENUE BETWEEN PARK AND
MEADOW STREETS
AND ADJOINING THE RESIDENCE
OF MR.. j. ID. CARNEAL.
BY virtue of a decree OF the Law and
Equity Court of the city Of Richmond.
In the suit of Moses May. &c, vs.. j. 5.
Heller at ais, entered on the 18th day OF
June 1889. we, the undersigned commits
s:oners. will sell at public auction, on
the premises on
FRIDAY, JUNE 30. 1899.
at o'clock p. NJ subject 20 the oonfir-
nation OF the court, the following de-
scribed REAL. ESTATE: All that certain
lot. piece. or parcel of land, lying and be
ing in the county Of HenricO, IN the
State OF Virginia. on the south line or
Grove avenue, between Park and VI adow
streets commencing thirty 900 feet from
the southwest corner of Grove avenue
and Park street. thence running west
wardly and fronting thereon eighty (sQ
feet seven 90 inches, thence back and
between parallel lines one hundred and
forty-fye Qfj) feet TO an alley fourteen
90 feet wide.
This property Is in the very best loca-
ton either for home or an investment
and should attract the attention Of those
desiring TO buy for either OF the above
purposes.
TERMS: One third cash. and the bal
twelve months. for notes. with interest
added. and secured by a deed Of trust on
the property. or all cash, at the option
of the purchaser.
MOSES MAY,
WILLIAM FLEGENHEIMER.
HnFN los a q
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-28
TO ASSESS CANAL PROPERTY.
The Hoard of Public Works Goes to
PctcrsburG-CnpItO Notes.

Stato-Treasurer Hartman and Auditor
Marye, constituting quorum Of the
Board Of Public Works. and Mr.. c. Lee
Moore. secretary OF the board, will go &c
Petersburg to-day for the purpose OF as
sessing the property of the Appomattox
Canal Company. Governor Tyler, the
president of the board, is at his country
home. in the Southwest. and is not ex-
pected to be present.
There has been received at the Cover
nor's Office the following query from the
Lincoln Farmers Club. Of LOudoun cOun-
": 1.-The law we have requiring the
analysis of fertilizers was felt TO be a
great benefit 10 farmers, both as Il Pro-
tector and as an educator. Could we not
have similar one passed 10 protect the
buyers Of feed. quantities Of which are
now used I'm this and adjoining counties"
Among the visitors at the Governor
Office yesterday we're Mrs. John ReclIord
and daughter, Of Bel Air, Md, and Mrs
O. p. Taylor. of Wellsville, n. Y.
DR.. j. T. Gillian. Treasurer of Ches-
terrified, and Treasurer Jarrett, OF Sussex
called at the Auditors office.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-28
THE r.. Il. & c. RIGHT or WAY.
A strip OF Mayo's Island Purchased
News of the City Courts.

a deed was recorded in the Chancery
Court yesterday conveying certain pro-
perty from the Mayo Land Company to
II. L. Cabell for the Richmond, Peters
burg and Carolina railroad, for railroad
purposes only.
The deed witnesses that for the sum Of
81, 600 and other good and valuable con-
sideratiOn the Land Company grants TO
the party Of the second part the follow
ing real estate:
A. strip of land 80 feet wide across
Mayo's Island, said strip being % feet en-
each side of the centre line of the rail-
road, including all the riparian rights;
also, a strip of land ~ feet wide ACROSS
the land of the Mayo Company, in the
city of Manchester The transfer is made
subject 10 these conditions:
The land shall b. used as a right Of
way for a railroad, and for no other pur-
pose whatsoever. Foot passengers,
| wagons, carriages, street cars. or any
| other vehicle shall not be allowed upon
it. The railroad company shall at all
times have a free ana undisturbed right
of way.
In the City Circuit Court, in the case
of Otis II. Russell, assignee of Fannie
Madison, who sues for the benefit OF the
American Home Building and Loan Asso-
| citation, in which the Watt Plow Com
pany filed its petition claiming a lien on
| the fund, jury was sworn and returned
| verdict thai the claim of the Watt
| Plow Company is not a valid lien on the
| fund.
Marriage licenses were granted in the
| Hastings Court to William :. Woodson
| and Juliet Carlton Snodgrass, and 10
Watson NJ. Myers and Leda 5. Williams.
Suits for divorce were instituted in the
| Law and Equity Court yesterday by Jo-
seph Register against Bette \. Royster,
, and by Dr. Redd against Martha Redd.
| Both on statutory grounds.
! The following civil suits were inst-
tuted
| Charles Z. Baker e. 60. against Field
| Brothers, for 500.
! The Hub Gore Works against Field
J Brothers, for SllSG6.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-28
pINGREE BiLNs 4 LITTLE.
He il Not for Mckinley "First Last
and All the Time"

DETROIT. MICH. June Ex-Governor
Pingree in replying 10 General Alger
published statement that the Governor
was, "for Mckinley first, last, and all the
time" saws that he is not sure General
Alger made any such statement, and II
the Genera! did, it is from the General
point of view, and he has no criticism 10
make he SAID. n
THE question Of whether ] am a Nc
kinleY man or not rests WIN MOi\'"''''
The Governor says that If General Ager
is sure that Mckinley is opposed 10 Ter
ritOrial expansion. Is not an advocate u
the murder and devastation that the soy
eminent is forcing upon the Phllpplnes'
Is opposed to trusts and all legislat on
that creates, protects, ana encouIdEt
them. and in favor OF restricting 'iell
liberties: If Mckinley is not IN touci anu
sympathy with the dsreputable meihous
of Mark Hanna and ms irlehus, anu
depTecates such an unclean ana uHNhoic
some political factor as Mark hanna me
General has the greatest right 10 say
that 1 am for Mckinley first last anu
All the time | am unalteraby opposed 10
these principles and conditions, anu Sll"li
be as long as ! have breath IN my po9Y'
"Aicer is against trusts, ana doh I
know, and don't care whether ne Is DltleT
against Mark Hanna or not ASIDE rom
all this. the question or whether an ."
Mckinley man or not does hol e n,vi "
the approaching senatorial campaign. W e
have the issue clearly drown oeIl1 .I
McMillans friends are for revenue oiliS
and we are going to try ana cOnuucS
clean campaign r-,, -,
General Alger may be Mckinley man
FIRST last. and all the time ana had Deeh
in his position while he has been sec a,eo
tarv of War l believe l shoulu haNe
f@Ien down as he has done. More than
ms hiise Would have stood by my guns as
Alger has done. / wouldn't 80 ,a back X O. On on
my Chief. even If thought ne R no mas boe
done / am with Mckinley in, anythnlns
and and everything he does that l eonsldei
% %ieht and / am opposed TO him in any
tbine and everything he does that l con
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-28
sVyDaY-sCHOOL WORK.
Executive Committee of state Asso'
citation Met Yesterday.

The Executive Committee Of the Vir-
ginia State Sunday-SchoOl Association
met at its rooms yesterday afternoon at
o'clock and transacted important busl-
ress connected with its work
Mr. W. r. Jones presided and Mr.. Al
fred J. Gary was the secretary. \ com
mittee, consisting OF Rev. T.. l.. Pell d..
D.; Rev. j. \. Spencer, and the secre-
tary. reported a brief history of the as
ISOLATION up TO the present date, as wei
as setting forth the aim and purposes OF
Observation-Disclosures Sunday-school work
in Virginia, which will be printed In a
few days and sent free to Sunday-school
workers. 49,.
Since the last convention, held in this
city March TO TO- 1899. the secretary mas
received assurances from representative
Sunday-school workers in six counties
where no such organization now exists
that they would at once proceed 10 or
ganiZe their respective counties. Han
over county is the first to raj! IN line
since the convention. and has organized
by electing the following officers: George
=. Haw. president; \. l.. Holiday. vice.
president: George q. Smith, treasure;
w II. williams, secretary. Executive
Committee-H. Carter Redd Of Beaver
Dam: G. w. Hunter. Ashland; r. W.
Timberlake. Atlees; ). j. boswell, Ash
land. and n. r. Fuller. Gaines's Mil. The
future prospects of the work is very en-
couraging to the Executive Committee.