Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-03-13
15KILLED in WRECK
SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN is
DITcHEo AND BURNED.

passengers Asleep When train Is
Hurled from Track-Serious Iniur.
les Are Sustained by Twen.y-eiaht
Survivors-Tourists Crematcd.
San Antonio. Tex. March S.-A
broken rail caused frightful wreck
on the Southern Pacific railroad near
Maxon station, 25 miles west of San
derson, at 3 a. m. From the last ac-
counts received here Is persons were
killed outright and % were injured.
The dead: Three children of Mart
Riddle of Chetopa, Kan; Estayon
Contraras, Del Rio, Tex; Andrew G..
Shelley, wife and child, Lorine, Tex;
child of d. E. Housen. Racine, Wis;
Mr.. and Mrs. White, Manitowoc, Wis;
Engineer Al Mast, FL Paso, Tex;
Fireman H. Bertscholst, Ell Paso; L..
A. Boone, news agent, Doyline, La;
Chris Keel contractor, San Antonio;
w. W. Price, engineer, San Antonio.
The injured: Mrs. Mary E. Kohler,
San Francisco, internal injuries; A. s.
Turner, BlackhawlS, Miss, hand
crushed; Mrs. E. M. Sheppard, Glenn
Mills, Pa, head hurt; j. Fuller, Wash
ington, d. c., leg and foot crushed;
A. e. Mckenzie, Stafford, A. T., inter-
nal injuries; George Ollenberg, Lex
ington, KY. hand crushed; E. G. Ba-
ker, Angleton, Tex, bruised; Charles
H. Hoy, San Antonio, Tex, both feet
scalded; A. E. Massey, Wilby, Tex,
scalp wound; ]. l. Taylor Mulberry.
Kan, head injured; Mrs. Mitchell,
Philadelphia, hurt internally; w. R.
Adams, express messenger, internal
injuries and badly scalded; Craig Bat
tleman, North Dakota, head and back
hurt; Biscoe Rodriguez, Del Rio, Tex.
bruised; Antonio Donul, Del Rio, Tex,
bruised; M. Lobert, head hurt; D. p.
Havens, Ell Paso, Tex, bruised; Will
lam Josephs San Jose, Cal, back in
jured; C. w. B. Bennett, st. Paul, Kan,
bruised; Mrs. Annie Wortherst, San
Francisco, leg and hand crushed.
The ill-fated train at the time the
accident occurred was running at d
high rate of speed in order to make
up time. 1t was when rounding a
curve that the train left the track, it
is said, on account of broken rail.
The hour was 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 init
nation they had of the danger. The
train was going at such rate of speed
that the tender and engine landed rs
feet from where they left the tracks.
The cars behind piled up against the
engine, caught fire, and all were CON
sumed except the sleepers.
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
1t was injured
behind the express and baggage cars
were cremated. The people in the
sleepers were saved with the assist.
ance Of the uninjuret passengers.
The wrecked train was the Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio west.
bound passenger No. 9 and consisted
of an engine, mail car, baggage car,
one coach, one chair car, three tour.
ist sleepers, one Pullman sleeper and
one private car. The mail car, bag
gage car and coaches were piled to-
gether against the engine and were
ablaze in few seconds. It was i'm
possible to move any of the coaches
or the tourist cars 40 they waro oil
OFF the rails and We're soon consumed
by the flames.
So soon as it was possible to get in
communication with the division head
quarters relief trains. with surgeons
and physicians. were started from Ell
Paso and Del Rio. All of the injured
who were in a condition to be moved
were sent to Ell Paso, where they are
receiving careful attention