Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-03-11
is HR[|GR7[D WITH WOE.
Train Bearing Dead and Injured
from Wreck Near Maxon,
Tex, Reaches Ell Paso.
SAD SCENES ENACTED IN THE DEPOT.
Victims Removed to the Morgue, the
Hospitals and the Hotels-New
Yorker Tells of the Heart-Rend-
ing Horrors of the Disaster-List
of the Dead and Injured.

Ell Paso. Tex, March 1O.-Creeping
like mammoth hearse across the
desert the relief train conveying the
dead, the dying and the injured of the
disaster at Maxon pulled slowly into
the depot. 1t was a night long to be
remembered by those who witnessed
the dead and the MANNED taken from
the coaches. Men, women and chill
dren, many OF them still with their
night robes on, bandaged from head
to foot, made their way or were as
sisted to the vehicles awaiting to re-
ceive them. Others with children in
their arms and mothers with children
lying dead in the front coach were TAX
en- to the hotels or hospitals. Hus-
bands and wives chung to each other,
the terrible scenes of the morning still
fresh in their memory.
An Awful Experience.
Said prominent New Yorker, who
refused to give his name:
THE back coaches were not turned over
and that Is all that saved US who were for
tunate enough to be riding in the Pullman.
They tipped slightly. but remained on the
track. Otherwise had we not been killed
we would have been cremated. The
coaches were burned up and never saw
the time got out Of the Pullman there
was little left of the smoker and chair
car except cinders and ashes. The shrieks
and groans OF the victims is something to
be remembered a lifetime and we were as
helpless as babes to assist them. 1t is my
estimation that the exact number of dead
will never be ascertained. Nearly every
passenger on the train was asleep when
the accident occurred. Probably the ma
jority OF passengers In the front coach met
death before the fire finished the deadly
work"
1t was reported here that as the en-
CINE left the inside Of the reverse
curve the accident was not due to fast
running.
The Victims.
T From the latest accounts received Is
persons were killed outright and rs
were more OF less injured.
The dead are:
Three children of Mart Riddle, of Cetopa
Kan: Estavon sContraras, Del Rio, Tex.
Andrew c. Shelley, wife and child, Loiror
Tex; child Of D. e. Housen, Racine Wis.
Mr.. and Mrs. White. Manitowoc, Wis.
Engineer AL. Mast, Ell Paso. Tex; Fireman
H. Bertscholst. 81 Paso. Tex: L. A. Boone
news agent, Doyline, La; Chris Keel, con
tractor San Antonio; w. w. Price, sar
Antonio.
The injured;
Mrs. Mary Koehler. San Francisco. in
ternal injuries: A. s. Turner. Black Hawk
Miss, hand crushed; Mrs E. M Sheppard
Glenn Mills, Pa. head hurt: ]. Fuller
Washington. D. C.. leg and foot crushed
Antonio Elrio. Del Rio. Tex, internal In
1uries; George ollenburg. Lexington, Ky.
hand crushed; =. G. Baker. Angleton, Tex.
| bruised; Charles n. Hoy, San Antonio
Tex. both feet scalded: A. e. Massey
i Willy, Tex, scalp wound; ]. I. Taylor
Mulberry. Kan. head injured; Mrs. Mitch
ell. philadelphia, Pa. hurt internally; "
+. Adams. express messenger, internal in
5uries and badly scalded: Craig Battleman
North Dakota. head and back hurt; Bis
coe Rodriguez, Del Rio Tex, bruised; Lu
Ions Morales. Del Rio. Tex, slightl
bruised; Antonio Donul Del Rio, Tex
bruised; M. Lobert, residence unknown
head hurt; D. P. Ravens, Ell Paso, Tex
bruised; A. e. Mckenzie. Stafford, A. r
slightly injured; II. ]. Todd. Frankfort
KY. bruised; Thomas o. Crowder, Hous
tnp. Tex. bruised; William Josephs, Sa
lose. Cal, back injured: J. H. Taylor
Birmingham. Ala. slightly hurt; Hug
Mills. ,Chetopa. Kan. slightly injured: b,
9, g. Martin. Pscos City, Tex. slightly In
1ured; G. w. B. Bennett, st. Paul. Kan
bruised; w. 8. Glenn, Biackhawk, Miss
leg broken; Mrs. Annie Wortherst, sa
Francisco, leg and hand crushed.
Dead Placed at Twelve.
| Houston, Tex, March 1O.-At South
ern Pacific headquarters Saturday
was reported that the number of dea
by the Maxon wreck is IL, it being col
coded four Of the missing are dea,
The two still missing and not account
ed dead are Chris Kiel and w. Pric,
Reports Of the injured from Ell Pas
are to the effect that none have die,
but three may die during the day. TIL
cause Of the wreck is still myster,
The railroad officials believe it was a
obstruction on the track or a broke
rail, while some survivors assert the
the train was running very fast an
hitting the curve hard. the wreck o,
curing on curve. The fact may neye
be determined, az the engineer is dea
and most Of the passengers wer
asleep. Conductor Stockwell is pos
tive the train was running at ordinar
speed, which is not dangerous.
GETS A NEW TRIAL.
Jessie Morrison. Convicted of Murde
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