The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-08
THE CARS CAUGHT FIRE
Bodies of Some of the Victims
 Cremated.
Train Was Behind Time and Was Running at High Rate of Speed When the Disaster
 Occurred.

rail caused a frightful wreck on the Southern Pacific Railroad near Maxon station, twenty-five miles west of San derson, at o'clock this morning. From the latest accounts received here, fifteen persons were killed outright and twenty eight were more or less injured, as fol- lows:
 Dead:
 Three children of Mart Riddle of Che- topa, Kas.
 Estavon Contras, D,sl Rio, Tex.
 Andrew c. spelly. wife and child. Loirer, Tex.
 Child of D. E. Housens, Racine, Wis.
 MT. and Mrs. White, Manitowoc, Wis.
 Engineer Al Mast, Fl Paso, Tex.
 Fireman H. H. Bertscholt, Fl Paso, Tex.
 L. A. Boone. news agent, Doyline, La.
 Chris Keel, contractor, San Antonia. Tex.
 W. W. Prince, engineer. San Antonio, Tex.
 The injured:
 Mrs. Mary Hoehler. San Francisco; in- ternaI injuries.
 A. s. Turner, Black Hawk. Miss; hand crushed. :
 Mrs. E. M. Sheppard, Glenn Mills. Pa. i; head hurt
 J. Fuller, Washington. D. C+ leg and foot crushed.
 Antonio Elry. Del Rio. Tex; internal injuries. George ollenburg, Lexington. Ky; hand mashed. E. C. Baker, Angleton, Tex; bruised. Charles H. Hoy, San Antonio, Tex; both feet iscalded.
 A. E. Massey, wilby. Tex; scalp wound, 4,-..-s, sr,.s.v-ssl-, 3..,s
 J. I. Taylor, Mulberry, Kas.; head in jured.
 Mrs. Mitchell. Philadelphia. Pa; hurt internally.
 W. R. Adams, express messenger; in ternal injuries and badly scalded.
 Craig Battleman North Dakota; head and back hurt.
 Biscoe Rodriguez. Del Rio; bruised
 Lulons Merales Del Rio. Tex; slightly injured.
 Antonio Donul, Del Rio. Tex; bruised.
 M. Lobert. residence unknown; head hurt
 D. H. Havens Fl Paso. Tex: bruised.
 A. F. Mckenzie, Stafford, Ariz; slightly injured.
 H. J. Todd. Frankfort, Ky; bruised.
 Thomas o. Crowder. Houston, Tex; bruised.
 William Josephs, San Jose. Cal; back injured.
 J. H. Taylor, Birmingham, Ala; slight ly hurt.
 Hugh Mills. Chetopa, Kas; slightly i'm jured.
 pr. G. o. Martin, Peeos City, Tex. {; slightly injured. c. W. Bennett, St. Paul, Kas.; bruised. w S. Glenn Black Hawk, Miss; leg broken. Mrs. Annie wortherst, San Francisco: leg and hand crushed. The iIl-fated train left San Antonio at noon Thursday, two and a half hours late. and at the time the accident 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. It was when rounding a curve that the train left the track, 1t is said, on account of a broken rail.
 The hour was 3 a. m., fifteen hours af- ter 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 intimation they had of the damage. The train was IL tender and engine landed seventy five feet from where 1t left the rails. The cars behind piled up against the engine, caught fire and all were consumed except the sleepers. A private car owned by Thom- as H. Ryan, New York City, with his family aboard, was attached to the rear of the train, but 1t was pulled away be- fore the fire reached it, and no one in 1t was injured.
 All the injured fin the coaches just be- hind the express and baggage cars were cremated The persons in the sleepers were saved with the assistance of the uninjured passengers.
 The wrecked train was the Galveston. Harrisburg and San Antonio westbound passenger, No. 9, and consisted of an engine. mail car. baggage car one coach, one chair car, three tourist sleepers, one Pullman sleeper and. one private car. The mail car. baggage car and coaches were piled together against the engine and were ablaze in a few seconds. It was impossible to move any of the coaches or the tourist cars, as they were al off the rails and they were soon con- stunned by flames. Just as soon as it was possible to get in communication with the division head quarters. relief trains with surgeons and physicians were started from Fl Paso, Del Rio and Sanderson, picking up along the line all the surgeons that could be found. All of the injured who were in a condition to be moved were sent to Fl Paso where they are receiving careful at tention. w. G. Van Vleck, General Man ager of the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railroad. was at San Antonio and left at once on a special train for the scene of the wreck