Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-12-23
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

cific overland trains on the coast dt
vision met in head-end collision AT
Upland. Many persons were 'Iiled
and injured.
A special train is now being maze
up here to take doctors and nurses to
the scene of the wreck. The fireman
of train No. 10 is known to have been
killed. Four doctors have been sent
from here and one from San Lucas.
1t will take the special train two
hours to reach the wreck.
The following details have just been
received:
The north-bound Sunset express
due to arrive at San Ardo at 12: so a.
m. and the Sunset express from San
Francisco, due to leave San Ardo at
the same time, collided this morning.
The south-bound train left Salinas Z
minutes late, and through some error
met the northbound train head-on
one-half mile west of Uplands. be-
tween San Ardo and San Lucas.
Both trains were completely wreck
ed. the engines being thrown from
the track and several of the cars tel
) escoped. Train No. 9 was partly
utotlostu Ds uIt. eli VI lWtiNt
persons were killed and about fifty
injured.
The south-bound train was crowd
ed with passengers, every seat being
taken, some passengers being obliged
to stand.
Among those on the train were
so discharged soldiers on their
way east and the "All-American"
base ball team on their way to Los
Angeles.
The track is completely blockadei
and no trains can pass the wreckage
today.
The Sunset limited and two freight
trains are being held a: Bradley.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Cal. Dec. 19
The train dispatcher at this point
says the cause of the accident was
the failure of the north-bound train
to stop at Uplands so as to allow the
other train to pass, according to or
ders.
SAN JOSE, Cal, Dec. 19.-The
latest reports from the train wreck
at Uplands state that only three per
sons were killed outright, 20 seriously
injured and 80 slightly hurt.
Sheriff keef on the south bound
train was pinned down in the chair
car, which was burned, and he was
rescued in the nick of time.
The following is list OF the killed
and wounded as received at the rail-
road offices here:
Killed.. Garland, fireman; the
Wells-Fargo express messenger, name
unknown; firemans helper, name un-
known.
lnjured-John Carogana, Mrs.
Wright, l.. l.. Oston, A. A. Irvine. Ida
Soserburg, John Kelshaw, Mrs. Felipe,
Mr.. Randadore, Salvador Buenabor-
so. Christian Jensen. Mr.. Saberino,
Joe Rundee John Jordon, George
Meeker, Chris Hendrickson, H. V.
Martin, Edmond Beerier, John G.
Williamsf, A. E. Wakefield Mr.. Hol
comb, Chas. Wasson. Mrs. Holbridge
Mrs. Naughton, Mrs. Gerudo, Mrs.
Mary l.. Booth, Mrs. G. e. Fands
None of the passengers We're fatally
injured, the railroad officials state, so
far as known.
PITTSBURG, Dec. 19.-By an ex
plosion of gas in the Soho furnace OF
Jones & Laughlin, near Brady street,
this city, this morning, ten men were
burned to death and probably twenty
others more or less seriously injur-
ed. The damage to the plant will
be about $4,000.
The explosion occurred In one OF
the big blast furnaces. The men
were at work at the top of the fur
from, tho Urnnnh
They were employed as filters and
were just preparing to quit work, be
ing members of the night crew,
when the gas, which had accumulated
in the furnace, exploded, Tons of
molten metal, cinders and Stag were
thrown over the unfortunate men on
top of the structure. When the gas
let go, panic ensued on the small
platform at the top of the furnace.
The men made a rush for the ele-
vator, but it had gone down and there
was no escape. To jump meant GER
tain death and to remain on the plat
form was Just as sure doom. The
tons of molten metal and flames fell
upon the men and burned ten of them
to death Their bodies dropped to
the roof of the mill, S5 feet below, ev
cry bone being broken and the bodies
unrecognizable masses of human
flesh.
There are Is injured persons in
the hospitals. Three men at Mercy
hospital are SO badly burned that
they will die. Five men employed
near the furnace are missing and it
is thought they have perished.
WASHINGTON, Dec. ia com
mittee of seventeen senators and of
members of the house appointed by
the full congressional representation
from the western arid land states 10
draft bill providing for national an
to irrigation have completed the bill
they were authorized to name, but 1t
will not be introduced in either house
of congress until after the Christmas
holidays. The bill embodies some oil
the provisions of both the Shafroth
ona NTawlapds hills rs