The record-union., 1899-07-11
FATAL RAIL
ACCIDENT.
A Burlington Special En- Route for
Los Angeles
Crashes Into 1 Freight Train at Newman,
stanisIaus County.

The Tender Of the Locomotive Tele-
scopes Tourist Sleeper, Killing
Two Women and Injuring Thir-
teen Other Passengers, None
Seriously, However,.
STOCKTON, July 10.-A Burlington
special train of nine coaches, on the
way from ST. Louis to Los Angeles
loaded with teachers to attend the Ma
tional Educational Convention, crashed
into a freight train within 300 yards
of the depot at Newman, Stanislaus
County, at 2:3O this morning, with the
result that two women were killed
and thirteen passengers injured
The special was drawn by engine
No. 1,721. A. B. Allen was the en-
gineer and F. w. Creigh the fireman,
and ]. r. Jones was the conductor
The special was in charge of S. r.
Drury of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad.
The special was going at the 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, way
car and three fiat cars were burned
The Newman volunteer fire department
turned out, and it was through their
efforts that the remainder of the
freight cars were saved, and the pas
senger train did not catch on fire at
| all.
| There was no baggage car between
the locomotive of the special and the
tourist sleeper, so that when the crash
| came the tender of the locomotive tel
escoped into the sleeper, killing the
| two women in the forward berth and
| injuring thirteen other occupants OF
the same car. The fact of there be-
| ing no baggage car between the engine
and the sleeper caused a great deal OF
comment at Newman, where it is be-
lieved had the baggage car been IN
place there would have been no one
killed. and but few if any injured.
None of the coaches left the track
| The passengers of the special are for
| the most part stopping at the Russ
House, where they are being cared
for, and word was sent by the South
ern Pacific Company that all the spe-
cial passengers would be taken to San
Francisco on the o'clock train to-
day, while the bodies of the killed will
| be shipped East tomorrow. No one
was allowed to. look at the bodies this
morning, pending the arrival OF the
| Coroner
Following is the list of the killed
and injured:
Killed: Miss Addie Harris, No. 300
Dillingham; street, ST. Louis; Mrs. Lena
Thomas, Seneca Falls, N. Y.
| Injured: Miss Clara Morehouse, NO
! 211 Upton avenue, Battle Creek, Mich;
Mrs. Elizabeth White, 1856 Isadore
| street, ST. Louis; Miss May Oliver
2232 Virginia avenue, ST. Louis; Miss
Eda English, $3.50 Washington avenue.
St. Louis; Miss Sallie R. Smith, 1854
West Pine street, ST. Louis; Miss
Gertrude Rosenberg, 1119 Rudger
street, ST. Louis; Miss Luella A. West
meyer, 1888 Aofcruxko street, St Louis;
Edwin D. Luckey, 1882 Union sBoule-
ward, ST. Louis Robert G. Mills, Lake
/ Creston, S. D.; Miss G. L. Morse, Phil
adelphia; 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, for the
greater part consisting of slight bruises
or merely shock.
Miss Harris was instantly killed, the
side of her head being crushed in. She
was taken out dead. Mrs. Thomas,
an elderly lady, lived about five min
utes after being taken from the wreck,
but did not speak.
A special telephone message to the
Mail" states that the freight train
should have taken the siding at lngo-
mar, but that the orders had been
picked up by some outsider, whose
name could not be learned The Bur-
hngton 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 twenty-eight
cars. The train hands all refuse to
talk or make any statement whatever
The Coroner arrived on the scene at
1 o'clock, and the jury met at 2:3O
but adjourned to 10 o'clock next Mon
day to get evidence of important wit
nesses
All the injured were doing well at
last accounts. and they were taken to
San Francisco this afternoon with a.
physician aboard the train.
NONE OF THE INJURED SERIOUS
LY HURT:
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10.-The
Eastern passengers VINO were on the
sleeping car which was wrecked in
the railroad collision at Newman ar
rived in this city to-day. None of
them were seriously hurt and all went
to hotels for the night. Robert Mills
of Lake Rreston,'S S. D., who was report
ed to have been badly injured, stated
that his injuries were slight. He was
hit on the head and tainted, but soon
recovered, but little the worse for his
experience.
Miss Eliza White of ST. Louis, who
was enormously stated to have died of
her injuries, was more frightened than
hurt, though she had marvellous es-
cape She was in an upper berth, and
was caught between the top of the ten
der and the roof of the sleeper. She
was extricated from her perilous posi-
ton with much difficulty.
Miss May Oliver of St. Louis had one
ankle badly sprained, and this was
the worst injury sustained by any OF
the survivors.
The bodies of the two dead ladies
were left at Newman, and will be sent
to their former homes after the in
quest.
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