The age-herald., 1902-03-08
Spreading Rails Throw Train from Track and Awful
 Scene Follows
j, H. TAYLOR, BIRMINGHAM
 IS AMONG TIE INJURED
lll-Fated Train Left San Antonio, Tex, Behind Time and Was Going Around a Curve When
 Wrecked-Cars Burn.

Mzzm AN ANTONIO, Tex, March IA sI.1R broken rail caused a frightful E&4W wreck on the Southern Pacific Railroad near Maxon Station, 25 miles west of Sanderson. at 8 clock this morn ing. From the latest accounts received here 15 persons were killed outright and 2S were more or less injured, as follows:
 The Dead.
 Three children of Mart Riddle, Chetopa, Kan.
 Estayon Contras Del Rio, Tex.
 Andrew c. Spelly, wife and child, Loirr, Tex.
 Child of D. E. Housen. Racine, Wis.
 MT. and Mrs White, Manitowoc, Wis.
 Engineer Al Mast, Fl Paso, Tex.
 Fireman H. Bertscholt, El Paso. Tex.
 L. A. Boone, news agent, Doyline, Ia.
 Christ Keel, contractor, San Antonia.
 w. w. Price engineer, San Antonio.
 The Injured.
 Mrs Mary Koehler, San Francisco, in- ternal injuries.
 A. S. Turner, Blackhawk, Miss, hand crushed.
 Mrs. E. M. Sheppard, Glenn Mills, Pa, head hurt
 J. Fully Washington, D. C., leg and foot crushed.
 Antonio Elry, Del Rio, Tex, internal in juries.
 George ottenberg Lexington, Ky. hand mashed.
 E. c. Baker, Angelton. Tex. bruised.
 Charles H. Hoey, San Antonio, Tex, both feet scalded
 A. F. Massey, Wilby Tex. scalp wound.
 J. l. Taylor, Mulberry, Kan, head in- jured.
 Mrs Mitchell, Philadelphia, Pa. inter nally injured.
 w. R. Adams, express messenger, inter nal injuries and badly scalded.
 Craig Battleman, North Dakota, head and back hurt
 Biscoe Roderfguez. Texas, bruised.
 Thomas Ryan, New York, slightly in- jured.
 Antonio Donul, Del Rio, Texas, 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, bruised.
 William Josephs San Jose, Cal, back injured.
 J. H. Taylor Birmingham Ala, slightly hurt.
 Hugh Mills. Chetopa, Kan, slightly in- jured.
 Dr. c. Martin, Texas, slightly injured.
 c. w. Bennett, St. Paul. Kan, slightly bruised.
 w. S. Glenn, Blackhawk, Miss. leg broken
 Mrs. Annie W. Ortherst, San Francisco, leg and hand crushed.
 The ill-fated train left San Antonio at noon Thursday, two and a half hours late. and at the time the accident oc- cured 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, it Is said, on account of a broken rail-
 Was Behind Time. The hour was a. m., two hours after the train had left San Antonio, showing that 1t was still behind time. All the pas sengers were asleep and the shock that followed was the first intimation they had of the accident. The train was going at such a rate of speed that the tender and engine landed seventy-1ve feet from where 1t left the rails. The cars behind piled up against the engine. caught fire and all were consumed except the sleep CTS. A private car owned by MT. Thomas Ryan of New York City, with his family aboard was attached to the rear of the train, but it was pulled away before the fire reached 1t, and no one m 1t was in- jured
 All the injured in the coaches just be- hind the express and baggage car were cremated. The people in the sleepers were saved with the assistance of the uninjured passengers. The wrecked train was the Galveston harrisburg and San Antonio west bound passenger No. g. and consisted of an engine, mall 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 few seconds If was impossible to move any of the coaches or the tourist cars as they were all off | the rails and they were soon consumed | by flames. Surgeons Hurried to Wreck. Just as soon as 1t was possible to get | III COIIltuuIllCdtlol WllH tHG OlVlS1On 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 attention. w. G. Van Vieck. general manager of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San An tonic Railroad, was at San Antonio and left at once on a special train for the scene of the wreck.
 Two Cars Remained on Track. The train left Sanderson four hours late. The engine and seven coaches left | the track entirely. leaving only a private | car and one Pullman on the rails. Fire soon spread through the derailed cars. and with such rapidity that 1t made it | impossible to remove the dead and seri- | ously injured. There were over one hun dred passengers aboard. The curve where ~0~-~~~---~~~--~- >>-~~~-~> ' fcontinued on Second PaCel