The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-03-12
A FRIGHTFUL WRECK.
Fifteen Persons Killed and Twenty
eight Persons Wounded.
LEFT TRACK ON A CURVE.
Going atSuch Speed, Engine Jumped
Seycnty-Five Feet. Coaches
Piled Up in Heap and
Burned.

Piled Up in Heap and
Burned.
4 broken rail caused a frightful
wreck on the Southern Pacific railroad
near MaXon station. 25 miles west Of
Sanderson, Texas, at o'clock Friday
morning. From the latest accounts
fifteen people were killed outright and
twenty-eight persons were more or less
injured.
The dead:
Three children Of Mart Riddle of
ChetOpa, kas.
Estavon Contraras, Del Rio. Tex.
Andrew G. Shelly, wife and child,
Loiror, Tex.
Child of D. E. Housen, Racine,
Wis.
Mr.. ana Mrs. White, Manitowoc,
Wis.
AL Mast engineer. FL Paso. Tex.
w. W. Price, engineer, San Anto-
nio.
H. Bertscholtz, fireman, El PAso,
Tex.
Chris Keel, contractor, San Anto-
nio.
L. a. Boone, news agent, Doyline,
La.
Injured:
Mrs. Mary Koehler, San francisco,
internal injuries.
"A. S. Turner, Blackhawk, Miss,
hand crushed.
Mrs NJ. E. Sheppard, Glenn Mills,
Pa, hand hurt.
J. Fuller, Washington, D. c., leg
and foot crushed.
Antonio Fl Rio, DelRio, Tex, inter
nal injuries.
George Ellenburg, Lexington, Ky,
hand crushed.
E. C. Baker, Angleton, Tex,
bruised.
Charles S. Hoy, San Antonio, Tex,
both feet scalded.
a. E. Massey, Wildly, lex, scalp
wound.
J. I. Taylor, Mulberry, Kas., head
injured.
Mrs. Mitchell, Philadelphia, Pa,
internally.
W. P. Adams, express messenger,
internal injuries and badly scalded.
Craig Battleman, North Dakota,
head and back hurt.
Biscoe Rodriguez, Del Rio, Tex,
bruised.
Lulons Merales, Del Rio, slightly
bruised.
Antonio Donuel, Del Rio, bruised.
NJ. Lobert, residence unknown, head
hurt.
D. P. Hayens, Ell Paso, bruised.
A. E. Mckenzie, Stafford, Ariz.,
slightly injured.
R. J. Todd, Frankfort, KY, bruised.
Thomas o. Crowder, Houston,
bruised.
VIM. Josephs, San Jose, Cal, back
injured.
J. H. Taylor, Birmingham, Ala,
slightly hurt.
Hugh Mills, Chetopa, Kas., slightly
injured.
DR.. G. C. Martin, Pecos City, Tex,
slightly injured.
C. W. B. Bennett, St. Paul, kaS.,
bruised.
W. S. Glenn, Blackhaw, Miss. leg
broken.
Mrs. Annie Wortherst, San Fran
cisco, leg and hand crushed.
The ill-fated train left San Antonio
at noon Thursday, two and half
hours late and at the time of the acci-
dent was running at high rate of
speed in order to make up time. The
road at the point where the wreck oc-
Cured is in rough country, the
curves being sharp and the grades
heavy. 1t was when roundinga curve
that the train left the track, it is said
on account of a broken rail.
The hour was 8 a. NJ, Is hours af-
ter the train had left San Antonio,
showing 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 a rate
of speed that the tender and engine
landed IS feet from where they left
the rails. The cars behind piled up
against engine causing a fire and all
were consumed except the sleepers.
A private car, owned by Thomas
Ryan of New York, with his family
aboard, was attched to the rear Of the
train, but it was pulled away before
the fire reached it and no one on it
was injured.
The wrecked train was the Calves
ton, Harrisburg and San Antonio
westbound passenger, and consisted Of
an engine, mail car, baggage car, one
coach, one chair car, three tourists
sleepers, one Pullman sleeper. and one
private car.
The mail car, the baggage car and
the 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.
So soon as it was possible to get in
communication with the division
headquarters relief trains with sur
geons aud physicians were started from
Ell Paso, Del Rio and Sanderson, pick
ing up along the line all the surgeons
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 careful