Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-03-13
DEATH At THE CURVE
Watches for a Train Making Up
Time and Reaps His
Harvest.
FIFTEEN HURRIED INTO ETERNITY
Twenty.Eight Are More or Less Seri-
ously Injured - Broken Rail
Supposed to Have Caused
the Disaster.

San Antonio, Tex, March ga brOk-
Ell rail caused a frightful wreck on the
Southern Pacific railroad lear MaxOn
station, twenty-five miles west of SAM
derson, at 3 a. m. yesterday. FROM the
latest accounts received here thirteen
people were killed outright and TWEEN
ty-eight were more or less injured. The
dead are: Three children Of Mart Rid
die, of Cetopa, Kan.; Estavon Contra
ras, Del Rio, Tex; Andrew G. Shelly,
wife and child, Loiror, Tex; child OF
u. d. Housen, Racine. Wis; Mr.. n
Mrs. White, ManitOwOc, Wis; Engineer
al. Mast, Ell Paso, Tex; Fireman Fl.
Bertscholst, Eel Paso, Tex; l.. A.
Boone, news agent, Daytime, La; Chris
Keel, contractor, and w. w. Price,
engineer, San Antonio.
Names of the Twenty-Eight Wounded.
The injured and their injuries are
described as follows: Mrs. Mary Koch
Ter, San Francisco, internal; A. $. Tur-
ner. Black Hawk, Miss, hand crushed;
Mrs. E. NJ. Sheppard, Glenn Mills,
Pa, head hurt; j. Fuller, Washington,
ID. c., leg and foot crushed; Antonio
Eliro, Del Rio, Tex, internal; George
Ollenburg, Lexington, Ky. hand
crushed; e. c.. Baker, Angleton, Tex,
bruised; Charles Fl. Hoy, San Antonio,
Tex, both feet scalded; A. E. Massey,
Wildly, Tex, scalp wound; j. l. Tay-
lOr, Mulberry, Kan, head injured; Mrs.
Mitchell, Philadelphia, Pa, internally;
W. r. Adams, express messenger, in
ternal and badly scalded; Craig Bat
tleman, North Dakota, head and back
hurt; Biscoe Rodriguez, Del Rio, Tex,
bruised; Lulons Morales, Del Rio, Tex,
slightly; Antonio LOnul, Del Rio, Tex,
bruised; LObert, residence I'M
known, head hurt; D. P. Ravens, Ell
Paso, Tex, bruised; A. e. Mckenzie,
Stafford, A. T., slightly; H. j. Todd,
Frankfort, KY, bruised; Thomas O..
Crowder, Houston, Tex, bruised;
William Josephs, San Jose, Cal, back
injured; J. III. Taylor, Birmingham,
Ala, slightly; Hugh Mills, Chetopa,
Kan, slightly; DR.. G. G.. Martin, Pecos
City, Tex, slightly; G. w. B. Bennett,
ST. Paul, Kan, bruised; w. S. Glenn,
Black Hawk, Miss, leg broken; Mrs.
Annie W%ortherst, San Francisco, leg
and hand crushed.
Left the Track on a Curve.
The Inflated train left San Antonio
at noon Thursday, two and a half
hours late, and at the time the acct
dent occurred 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 u
try, 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.
All the passengers were asleep at
the time of the accident. The train
was going at such a rate of speed
| that the tender and engine landed sew
enty-five feet from where they left
the rails.
Fire Cremates the Injured.
The cars piled up against the en-
CINE, caught fire, and all were con-
sumed except the sleepers. A private
car owned by Thomas Ryan, of New
York city, with his family aboard,
was attached to the real of the train,
but it was pulled away before the fire
reached it and no one in it was in
jured. All the injured in the coaches
just behind the express and baggage
cars were cremated. The people in the
sleepers were saved with the assist
ance of the %uninjured passengers. The
injured who could be moved were
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