Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1902-03-12
BURNED IN BLAZING CARS
Frighhul Railway Wreck in Texas
Caused by Broken Rail.
PASSENGERS WERE FAST ASLEEP
The Shock Attending tho Disaster wns
tho First Intirnation They Had Of
Danger-Desperate Attempts to Escape
Horrible Dcath-Train Was Going
Fast to Make UP Time.

San Antonio. Texas.-A broken rail
caused frightful wreck on the South
ern Pacific Railroad near Maxon Sta
tion, twenty-five miles west os Sander
son. From the latest accounts fifteen
people were killed outright and twenty
eight injured.
The dead are: Estavon Contrabas, of
Del Rio, Texas; Andrew G. Shelly, wife
and child. of Loiror, Texas; child Of
ID. q. Housen cf Racine, Wis; Mr.. and
Mrs. White. Of Manitowoc. Wis; Engi-
ncer a. L. Mast of El Paso. Texas: l..
a. Boone. news agent. of Doylinc, La. 1;
Chris Neel. contractor, of San Antonio;
w. w. Price, engineer, of San Antonio
Fireman II. Bertscholst, of El Paso.
Texas. and three children of Mart Bid
die. of Chetopav, Kan.
The ill-fated train left San Antonio
two and half hours late, and at the
time of the accident was running Mt
high rate of speed in order to make I'D
time. The road at the point where the
wreck occurred is in a rough country,
the curves being sharp and the grades
heavy. 1t was when rounding n curve
that the train left the track on account
OF broken rail.
The hour was n. m, fifteen hours
after 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 intl-
nation they had OF the danger.
Tle train was going ut such rate
OF speed that the tender and engine
landed seventy-tive feet from where
they left the rails. The cars behind
piled up against the engine, causing a
ire. and all were consumed except the
SlceDers.
y private car owned by Thomas
Ryan. of New York City, whose family
Was aboard, was attached to the rear
OF the train, but 1T was pulled away
before the fire reached it and no one in
it was injured.
All the dead in the coaches lust be-
hind the express and baggage cacs
were cremated. The people in the
sleeperS We're saved with the assist
ance of the uninjured passengersl
The wrecked train was n wcS.-Nound
passenger, and consisted of an cllgine,
mail car. baggage car one coach, one
clair car, three tourist Sleepers, one
Prllman sleeper and one private Ger.
The mail car. the baggage car and
coaches were piled together against
the engine and were ablaZc 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 head
quarters. relief trains with surgeons
and physicians were started for El
Paso, Del Rio and Sanderson, picking
uo along the line all the surgeons that
could be found.
All the injured who were in n condi-
tion to be moved We're, sent to El Paso,
where they are receiving careful atten-
ton.
The wreck occurred at remote
point 200 miles east OF this place. in n
rugged mountain. The train jumped
the track On a reverse curve, which
skirts ravine. 1t had just descended
grade two miles in length. and was
running Mt high rate o. speed When
IL struck the curve.