The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-11

Stockton, Cal, July 10.-A Burlington
special train of nine coaches on the way
from st. Louis to Los Angeles. loaded
with teachers to attend the National
Educational association convention,
now in session at Los Angeles, crashed
into a freight train within 300 yards OF
the depot at Newman, Stanislaus coun-
ty, this morning. with the result that
two women were killed and thirteen
passengers injured. The following is
list OF the killed and injured:
Killed.
Miss Addie Harris. No. 3O25 Dilling-
ham street. St Louis.
Mrs. Lena Thomas. Seneca Falls, n.
Z
Injured.
Miss Clara MOrehouse, 211 Upton ave-
nue., Battle Creek, Mich.
Mrs. Elizabeth White, 1856 Isadore
street. St. Louis.
Miss May Oliver, 1892 Virginia avenue,
st. Louis.
Miss Edna English, 1882 Washington
avenue, st. Louis
Miss Sallie R. Smith, 1894 West Pine
street. st. Louis.
Miss Gertrude Rosenberg, 1119 Rudger
Miss Luella \. Wehmeier, SS3 A street,
ST. Louis.
Edwin D. Luckey, 1882 Union boule-
ward. St. Louis.
Robert e. Mills. Lake Creston, S D.
Miss G L. Morse. Philadelphia.
Calvin Bullock. st. Louis.
With the exception of Robert Mills.
who was injured about the head,
though not fatally, none of the other
injuries are at all serious, the greater
part consisting of slight bruises or
merely shocks.
How the Accident Occurred.
The special was in charge of s. Drury
of the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
railroad, and was going at he rate of
forty miles an hour. and the freight
train was taking water on the main
track. The freight train Immediately
took fire. and an empty coach. waycar
and three fiat cars were burned. There
were no baggage cars between the To-
connective of the special and the tourist
sleeper, so that when the crash came
the tender on the locomotive crashed
into the sleeper, killing the two women
in the forward berth, and injuring thir-
teen other occupants of the same car.
None of the other coaches left the
track.
The passengers of the special were
taken 10 a hotel and cared for, and
Noro was sent by the Southern Pacific
that all the special passengers /
would be taken To san Francisco, while |
the bodies Of the killed will be shipped !
east tomorrow.
Further particulars from the New |
man Index are 10 the effect that the !
injured are all doing well, and none of |
them are in a bad way.
Her Head Crushed In.
Miss Harris was instantly killed, the |
side of her head being crushed in. She /
was taken out dead. Mrs. Thomas, an
elderly woman, lived about five minutes
after being taken from the wreck, but
did not sneak.
y special telephone message states
that the freight train should have taken
the siding at Ingomar. but that the or
ders had been picked up by some out
siGer. whose name could not be learned.
The Burlington special had the right
Of way over the Southern Pacific track.
and the statement is also made that
there was no light out back of the
freight train, which consisted of TWEEN
ty-eight cars. The train hands all re-
fuse to talk or make any statement
whatever.
The coroner's jury met at go but
adjourned to next Monday. To get evil
ience of important witnesses.
All the injured are doing well, and
we're taken to san Francisco this after
noon with a physician aboard the train.