The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-11

on the Southern Pacific railroad near
Maxon Station, 25 miles west of San
derson, at 3 O'Clock this morning.
From the latest accounts received
here Is persons were killed outright
and % were more or less injured, as
follows:
The Dead.
Three children of Mart Riddle of
Cetopak, Kansas.
Estavon Contraras, Delrio, Texas,
Andrew G. Spelly. wife and child,
LOiror, Texas.
Child of D. E. Housen. Racine, Wis.
Mr.. and Mrs. White, Manitawoc,
Wis.
Engineer White, Ell Paso, Texas.
Fireman H.. Bertscholst, Ell Paso,
Texas.
L.. A. Boone, news agent, Doyne, La.
Chris Keel contractor, San Antonio.
w. w. Price, engineer, San Antonio.
The Injured.
Mrs. Mary Koehler, San Francisco,
internally injured.
A. S. Turner. Blackhawk. Miss,
hand crushed.
Mrs. e. M. Sheppard, Glenn Mills,
Pa, head hurt.
J. Fuller, Washington. D. c., leg and
foot crushed.
Antonio Elrio. Delrio. lexas. intern
al injuries.
George %Oldenburg, Lexington. hand
crushed.
e. c. Baker, Angleton, Texas, bruis-
ed.
Charles H. Hoy, San Antonio, Tex
as, both feet scalded.
A. e. Massey. Wilboy, Texas, scalp
wound.
J. I. Taylor. Mulberry, Kan, head
injured.
Mrs. Mitchell, Philadelphia, hurt in
ternally.
w. P. Adams, express messenger,
internally injured and badly scalded.
Craig Battleman, North Dakota,
head and back hurt.
d. Biscoe Rodriguez, Delrio, Texas,
bruised.
Lulons Morales, Delrio, Texas,
slightly bruised.
Antonio Donul. Delrio. Texas, bruis-
ed.
M. Lobert, residence unknown, head
hurt.
D. P. Ravens, Ell Paso, Texas,
bruised.
A. E. Mckenzie, Stafford, Arizona,
slightly injured.
H. J. Todd, Frankfort. KY, bruised.
William Josephs, San Jose, Cal,
back injured.
J. H. Taylor. Burlington, Ala,
slightly hurt.
Hugh Mills, Chetopa, Kan, slightly
injured.
DR.. G. G. Martin Pecos, Texas,
slightly injured.
G. w. B. Bennett, St. Paul, Kansas,
bruised.
W. S. Glenn. Blackhawk, Miss, leg
broke.
Mrs. Annie Wortherst, San Fran
cisco, leg and hand crushed.
The Inflated train left San Antonio
at noon Thursday. two and a half
hours late, and at the time the acct
dent occurred was running at a high
rate of speed, in order to make up
time. The road at the point where the
wreck occurred is in a rough country,
the curves being sharp and the grades
heavy. 1t was when rounding a curve
that the train left the track, it is said,
on account of a broken rail. "
The hour was 3 a. M, Is hours after
the train had left San Antonio, show
ing that it was still behind time. All
the passengers were asleep and the
shock that followed was the first in
timation they had of the danger.
The train was going at such a rate
Of speed that the engine and tender
landed IS feet from where they had
left the rails. The cars piled up
against the engine, caught fire and
all were consumed except the sleep
ers.
A private car owned by Thomas
Ryan of Bay City, Mich, with his
family aboard, was attached to the
e a of the train, but it was pulled
away before the fire reached it and no
n in it was injured.
All the injured in the coaches Just
behind the express and baggage cars
were cremated.
The people in the sleepers were
saved with the assistance of the unin-
jured passengers.
The wrecked train was the Calves
ton, Harrisburg & San Antonio west