The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-21
BAD WRECK ON SANTA FE
TWO VESTIBULE TRAINS COLLIDE
 NEAR FRANCONIA, ARIZ.
Hound East and West-Seven Train men Killed and Three Passengers and Fourteen Trafnmen Injured Three Engines Blown to Pieces and Several of tho Cars Burned Up Passengers in Sleeping Cars Escape Injury.

Los Angeles, Cal, Nov. 20.-A fatal
 wreck occurred on the Santa Fe rail
 road near Fraconia, Arizonia switch
 station twenty miles east of Needles,
 Cal, early to-day. Seven trainmen
 were killed and three passengers and
 fourteen trainmen injured. Limited
 trains east and west bound crashed to- gether while running at full speed. The
 east bound train was drawn by two en-
 zines, while the west-bound train had
 but one locomotive. The three engines
 were crushed and blown to pieces by an
 explosion which followed the collision. Both trains were made up of vestibule cars of the heaviest kind, and while
 they stood the terrific shock well and protected the passengers to a great ex- tent, several of the cars took fire at once and burned up. The dining cars, one on each train, one Pullman and two composite cars were destroyed. Fol- lowing is a list of the casualties:
 Dead: P. H. Eligott, engineer; P. F. Goldsmith fireman; E. F. Barnhardt, barber; Walter Davorage, waiter; w. L. Case fireman; A. H. Armitage, fire man; Samuel Brown, waiter. The bod ies of the latter three men are yet miss ing.
 7 The injured nose of whom were bad- ly cut and scalded, are: Joseph Morse, conductor of east-bound train R. R. rS frc nf train; J. P. Williams, engineer of vest bound train; L. w. Fair, Chicago, wait CT; H. w. Webb, Chicago, porter; Otto Barge, Chicago, chief cook; Tony Lar son, Chicago, second cook; Monte Mor- ton, Chicago, waiter; Harry Letcher Chicago porter; F. Williams, Chicago waiter; Thomas H. Owen, Chicago, waiter; J. H. Arnold, Chicago, waiter; J. w. Bryant, Chicago, waiter.
 Passengers injured: P. J. Steenson. Pasadena, Cal, dislocated shoulder, left ankle and left wrist strained and bruis- ed w. L. Franklin, San Francisco, slightly bruised; Mrs. H. H. Gibbon, Oakland. Cal, slightly injured.
 The collision is said to have been due to the disregarding of orders by the crew of the west-bound train, though full particulars on this point are yet lacking.
 The boiler of the west-bound engine is said to have exploded after the crash, scalding to death those of the engine crew not already killed The bodies of Case and Armitage, fremen of the east bound train, and Samuel Brown, waiter of the opposite train, are missing and it is believed that they were cremated in the flames that followed the collision.
 From the meagre details gathered from the passengers it is learned that the sleeping cars, with one or two ex- captions, suffered slightly, and as re-
 ult the passengers were afforded com- parative immunity from injury. As soon as the news of the wreck was known at The Needles, which Is the division headquarters of the West End, B wrecking train and number of phy- sicians were hurried to the scene. As quick as possible the injured were plac- ed aboard and started west for Los An geles. The run from The Needles will bring the victims of the wreck here about midnight.
 At Santa Fe headquarters at Los An geles 1t was stated that the blame had | not been definitely fixed. The west | bound limited carried a full passenger | list from eastern cities, but 1t appears i none was injured