Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-11-27
SANTA FE
 COLLISION.
Worst in the History of the Road-West Bound Train Running at High Rate of Speed.
Conductor of West Bound Tram Re- ported to be Responsible for the Terrible Accident by Pulling Out Ahead of Orders.

Ahead of Orders.
 Immediately on receipt of the re- port of the collision on the Santa Fe road yesterday morning, the Journal Miner wired a request 10 Kingman and one to Needles for particulars of accident. No response being receiv ed, the Western Union operator sent a service message to the operators at the respective points, receiving notice that the parties to whom the request was sent were both at scene of wreck. At 9:20. o'clock last night the follow ing telegram was received from a vol unteer correspondent at Kingman:
 An awful bad wreck occurred on the Santa Fe this morning about 5a. m. It happened about nine miles east of the Colorado bridge, between Franconia and Powell. Two coaches of each train were burned, seven men are known to be killed and more bodies are supposed to be in the wreck. The trains were the two limited. The west bound was said to be running seventy miles an hour, be- ing on a down grade. Both trains are a complete wreck. One boiler ex- ploded, adding additional horror to the accident. Full particulars will not be obtained before Thursday, when the wreck will be cleared, and it has been impossible to obtain the names of the killed, the only name so far learned is that of Engineer Me Elliott. The east bound was being run as double header and it is re- ported that the entire six men form ing the crews of the three engines are killed.
 The cause of the accident is report ed to be the pulling out of the west bound train from Franconia ahead of orders, where it was supposed to meet the east bound train, and the collision occurred about three miles west of Franconia siding. When the dining car on the west bound train was discovered to be on fire, the rear cars were cut loose and control of them was lost when they started on wild run down the heavy grade to the river and are reported to have passed Mellen station near the bridge at speed of eighty or ninety miles per hour"
 An associated press telegram from Los Angeles gives the following list of killed and wounded:
 The killed are:-
 P. McElliott, engineer.
 H. Goldsmith, fireman.
 II. Barnhardt, barber.
 Walter Daverage, waiter.
 W. L. Case, fireman.
 w. H. Armitage, fireman.
 Sam Brown, waiter.
 The bodies of the last three are missing.
 Among the injured are:-
 Conductors Morse and Higgins, both badly cut and scalded.
 Engineers Williams and Holmes, Walters Fair, Morton, Williams, Owen, Arnold, Bryant, all scalded and cut.
 Cooks Larson and Barse.
 Porters Webb and Letcher.
 Only three passengers were injured, as follows:-
 P. J. Steenson, Pasadena. w. L. Franklin, San Francisco.
 Mrs. H. H. Gibbon, Oakland.
 The collision is said to have been due to a disregard of orders on the part of the west-bound train. From all accounts the east-bound train had orders to take the siding at Franconia aud wait for the west-bound, which was two hours late. The east-bound failed to reach Franconia before the west-bound passed the siding.
 In answer to a telegram sent to Needles, asking for a rush message giving further particulars of the ter rible wreck on the Santa Fe railroad, the following was received at half past nine last night, the telegram bearing date of November 21:
 There were positively only seven killed in wreck, as follows: McElli- gott, Armitage, Case, Goldschmidt, Porter, Barber, and Cook, the last three colored. Charred pieces of flesh and bones were identified as Armitage. Remains of Case and colored porter were dug out of the wreck and brought to Needles at noon today.
 Two diners, two composite cars and one vestibule were burned with all their effects. Three engines were totally wrecked. Engineer Williams is doing well and will recover. En- gineer Holmes is a hopeful case as is also that of Conductor Morse but Conductor Higgins is doubtful. These are all at the Los Angeles hos pital. The town has been thrown into mourning as all the dead men were very popular here.
 All that is possible is being done by our citizens. It is the worst wreck that has ever occurred on this line. A ''shoohy" has been built around the wreck and trains are running. No one is missing or not accounted for and no passengers are seriously hurt. All the injured were in railroad ser vice.
 The cause of collision is not yet known, but is supposed to have been by misconstruction of orders.
 Since writing the above a telegram has just been received saying that Higgins died at Sisters hospital, in Los Angeles at 3 p. m. today.-(H (Hig- gins was conductor on the west bound train and was the man who in the first reports of the wreck was alleged to be responsible for the accident by pulling out of Franconia ahead ol orders-Editor.)
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