The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-08
Train Left Track While Rounding
Sharp Curve.
WAS RUNNING AT HIGH RATE
Engine and Tender Landed Seyeuty-Five Feet
From n here They Left the Rails, and
Cars Piled Up aud Caught Fire.
The Private Car of Thomas F.
Ryan Was Uninjured.
Saddening Scene.
lDr Associated Press.l

(Dy Associated Press.)
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, March T.
II oxen rail caused a frightful wreck
lie Southern Pacific Railroad near Make
,tation, twenty-five miles west of Sa
erson, ats3 O'Clock this morning. Fro
hi. latest accounts received here flfte'
.op1e were killed outright and twent
lght were more or less injured.
THE DEAD. q
Three children of Mart Riddle,
Of Chetopa. Kansas.
EsTAVON, CONTRARAs. Del
Rio, Texas.
ANDREW c.. SHELLY, wife and
child, Loiror, Texas.
Child Of D. z. Housen, Racine,
Mr.. and Mrs. WHITE, Ianitoc,
Wisconsin.
ENGINEER AL MAST, Ell Paso.
w. w. PRICE, engineer, San An
tonic.
FIREMAN H. BERTSCHOLST.
El Paso, Texas.
CHRIS. KEEL, contractor, San
Antonio.
l. A. BOONE. news agent, Doy-
line, La
THE INJURED.
Mrs. MARY kOELER, San Fran
cisco, internal injuries.
a. S. TURNER, Black Hawk,
Miss, hand crushed.
Mrs. E. NJ. SHEPPARD. Glenn
Mills, Pa, head hurt.
j. FULLER, Washington, D. c.,
leg and foot crushed.
ANTONIO Ell RIO, Del Rio, in
ternaI injuries.
GEO. OLLENBURG, Lexington,
Ky, hand crushed.
Il. C. BAKER, Angleton, Texas,
bruised.
CEI1As.. n. 10Y: San Antonio,
Texas, both feet scalded.
A. e. MASSEY, Wilby, Texas,
j. I. TAYLOR, Mulberry, Kan.
head injured.
Mrs. MITCHELL, Philadelphia
Pa, hurt internally.
w. p. ADAMS, express messen-
ger, internally injured and badly
scalded.
CRAIG BATTLENIAN, North Da-
kota, head and back hurt.
BISCOE RODRIGUEZ, Del Rio
Texas, bruised.
IURONS MO RLlJS, oel itloI
Texas. slightly bruised.
ANTONIO DONUL, Del Rio,
Texas, bruised.
M. LOBERT, residence unknown,
head hurt.
D. p IIAvENs, Ell Paso. Texas,
bruised.
A. e. M'KENSIE, Stafford, Ari-
zona, slightly injured.
r. j.. TODD, Frankfort. KY,
bruised.
ton, Texas, bruised.
VIM. JOSEPHS, San Jose, Cali
fornia, back injured.
j. q. TAYLOR, Birmingham,
Ala, slightly hurt.
HUGH MILLS, Chetopa, Kan,
slightly injured.
Dr.. G. C.. MARTIN. Pecos City,
Texas, slightly injured.
C. w. B, BENNETT. St Paul
Kan, bruised.
w. S. GLENN. Black Hawk.
Miss, leg broken.
Mrs. ANNIE WORTHERST, san
Francisco, leg and hand bruised.
RUNNING FAST.
The Inflated train left San Antonio
noon Thursday, two a half hours Ia
and at the time Of the accident W
running at a high rate OF speed in ORD
to nlaj.e up time. The road at the poi
where the wreck occurred is in rou
country, the curves being sharp and t
grades heavy. It was when rounding
curve that the train left the track,
is said, on account Of a broken rail.
The hour was 8 o'clock a. M. fife
hours after the train had left San A
tonic. showing that it was still %
hind time. All the passengers were aisle
and the shock that followed was
first intimation that they had OF t
ianger.
The train was going at such a "a
Of speed that the tender and engi
landed seventy-fve feet from where tn
left the rails. The cars behind piled
against the engine, caught aflre and
were consumed except the sleepers.
A private car, owned by Thomas Rya
Of New York. with his family aboard, "
attached to the rear of the train, Q
1t was rnllled away before the fire reac
ed it and no one was injured.
The wrecked train was the Galvest
Harrisburg. and San Antonio westboT1
passenger, and consisted Of an engil
mail car, baggage car, one coach. Q
chair car, three tourist sIeeners, Q
Pullman sleeper and one private scar.
WE'RE SOON ABLAzE.
The mail car, the baggage car a
coaches were piled together against
engine and were ah'aze in few secon
It was impossible TO move any Of
coaches or the tourist cars. as they w
all off the rails, and were soon cons,1n
by the flames
AS soon as it was possible to get in CO
with the div.s'or headquart
relief trains with surgeons and physicia
were started from Ell Paso. Del Rio a
sanderson. picking IN along the line
the surgeons that could be found. All |
injured who were in condition to
moved were sent to Ell Paso. where tt
are receiving careful attention.
w. e. Van Week, general manager
the Galveston, Harrisburg and San
tonic Railroad, was at San Antonio. q
left at once on special train for
scene Of the wreck.
Obstruction IN rack
(Bys Associated Press.)
HOUSTON. TEXAS. March FIN
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