The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-08
HORRIBLE WRECK ON SOUTHERN
PACIFIC.
FIFTEEN KILLED OUTRIGHT.
MANY TOURISTS AMONG THE KILL
ED AND INJURED.

Car With His Family Saved.
| San Antonio, Tex, March IA
broken rail caused a frightful wreck
on the Southern Pacific Railroad near
Maxon station, rs miles west of San
derson. at o'clock this morning. From
the latest accounts received here fif-
teen people were killed outright and
% were more or less injured.
The dead:
Three children of Mart Riddle of
Chetopa, Kan.
Estavon Contraras. Del Rio, Tex.
| Andrew c. Shelly, wife and child,
Loiror. Tex.
Child of D. E. Housen, Racine. Wis.
Mr.. and Mrs. White, Manitowoc.
Wis.
AL Mast, engineer, Ell Paso, Tex,
w. w. Price, engineer, San An
tonic.
H. Bertscholst, fireman, FL Paso Tex.
Chris, Keel, contractor Sar Antonio.
L. A. Boone, news agent, Doyline,
| La. 49,,
Injured:
Mrs. Mary Koehler, San Francisco,
internal injuries.
A. S. Turner, Black Hawk, Miss,
| hand crushed
Mrs. E. M. Sheppard, Glenn Mills,
Pa, head hurt.
]. Fuller, Washington. D. c., leg and
| foot crushed.
Antonio Ell Rio, Del Rio. Tex, inter-
/ George Ollenburg, Lexington, KY,
| hand crushed.
E. c. Baker, Angleton, Tex, bruised.
Charles H Hoy, San Antonio Tex,
both feet scalded.
A. e. Massey, Wildly, Tex, scalp
wound.
j. /. Taylor, Mulberry, Kan, head
injured.
Mrs. Mitchell, Philadelphia, intern
ally.
| w. P. Adams, express messenger, in
ternal injuries and badly scalded.
Craig Battleman, North Dakota,
head and back hurt.
Biscoe Rodriguez. Del Rio, Tex.
Lulons Morales, Del Rio, slightly
bruised.
Antonio Donul, Del Rio, bruised.
M. Loubert, residence unknown head
hurt.
d. P. Havens, Ell Paso, bruised.
A. f. Mckenzie, Stafford, Ariz7
slightly injured.
r. j. Todd, Frankfort, KY, bruised
Thomas o. .Crowder, Houston Tex
bruised
William Josephs, San Jose, Cal.
back injured.
J. H. Taylor. Birmingham, Ala,
slightly hurt.
Hugh Mills. Chepota, Kan, slightly
injured.
Or. G. c. Martin, Pecos City, Tex,
slightly injured.
bruised.
w. S. Glenn, Black Hawk. Miss, leg
broken.
Mrs. Annie wortherst San Fran,
cisco, leg and hand crushed.
How the Wreck Occurred.
The ill-fated train left San Antonio
at noon Thursday, two and a half
hours late, and at the time of the ac-
cident was running at a high rate IF
speed in order to make up time. rne
road at the point where the wreck oc-
CURED 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, ii is said On
account of broken rail.
The hour was a. m, fifteen hours
after the train had left san Antonio,
showing that it was still behind time
| All the passengers were aisle sp and the
|
nation they had of the danger.
The train was going at such a rate
of speed that the tender and engine
| landed rs feet from where they left
the rails. The cars behind pied up
AGAINST the engine, causing fire, and
all were consumed except the sleepers.
Thomas Ryan's Party saved.
A private car owned by Thomas
Ryan of New York, with his family
aboard, was attached to the rear Of
the train, but it was pulled away be-
fore the fire reached it and no one in
it was injured.
The wrecked train was the Calves
ton, Harrisburg and San Antonio west
bound passenger, and consisted of an
engine, mail car, baggage car, one
coach one chair car, three tourist
sleepers one Pullman sleeper, and one
Pullman sleeper and one private car.
The mail car, the baggage car and
coaches were piled together against
the engine and were ablaze in few
seconds. 1t was impossible to move
any of the coaches or the tourist cars,
as they were all off the rails and were
soon consumed by the flames.
AS soon as it was possible to get in
communication with the division
Headquarters relief trains with sur
geons and physicians were started
from Ell Paso, Del Rio and Sanderson,
| picking up along the line all the sur
geons that could be found.
All the injured who were in a con-
dition to be moved were sent to FL
Paso, where they are receiving care
full attention.
w. G. Van Week, general manager
of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San
Antonio Railroad, was at San Antonio
and left at once on a special train for
the scene of the wreck.
Thomas +. Ryan, Wife and Son.
New York, March Thomas f.
Ryan, New York capitalist, largely
interested in street railway and gas
companies. left here some days ago
in a special car for a tour of the
Southwest. He was accompanied by
Mrs Ryan and his 12-year-o son.
Excuse offered for Wreck.
Houston, Tex, March Tn his Off
cial report to Vice President J. Krutt-
schnitt, General Manager VanVleck
makes the following statement
Conductor reports speed was not
fast at time Of derailment, and is of
the oninion accident was due tn oh