The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-22


tween the Stockton flyer and owl
train on the Southern Pacific at Byron
last night sixteen deaths have already
been recorded and there are indications
that the total viii soon be raised TO
twenty. Most of the wounded passen-
gers who were too severely injured to
be taken to their homes were taken TO
the Southern Pacific hospital at San
Francisco today, and on the way TO
that place five of the victims died.
Twenty-Five of the injured reached the
hospital where il was announced to-
night that r. Post of Fowler, Cal, and
Lee Sou, a Chinese of San Francisco,
would probably succumb. OF the
twenty-five patients, only three were
permitted to receive visitors, so seri-
ously were they suffering.
The Dead.
Elizabeth L. smith of Fresno, Cal,
aged 3S.
Clarence d. Olufs. Fresno. aged %.
Miss Birdie Elliott, San Francisco,
aged %.
Mabel vezey. Modesto, Cal. aged 10.
George Sessions, Oakland, Cal, aged
so.
Charles Owens. Fresno, Cal, aged So.
Miss Myers. Fresno.
Robert Rennich, San Francisco.
Len Irwin, Oakland.
w. F. Temple, Oakland
Tung Tia Tong, Chinese girl, of San
Francisco.
The unidentified dead include one
white man. evidently sailor; two Chi
uese one japanese woman and a Jap
Rnese child.
Bodies Terribly Mutilated.
The dead were brought here this
morning and an inquest will be held
tomorrow, Most of the corpses are
terribly mutilated. This made the work
of Identification, very difficult. The in
5ured were taken to Oakland. All are
reported recovering from their in
juries and no further casualties are
anticipated.
Edward Joyce, firersan of the Stock
ton flyer. in a statement explaining the
collision said:
I'VE saw the flagmans light ahead
of us and put on the brakes at once.
They seemed to work well enough. but
we could not stop in time and crashed
into the rear of the owl train The
engine went right through the car
The Injured.
D. ]. Vernon, Fresno. scalded, knee
broken; D. J. Vernon, jr, Fresno, seri-
Gus bruises; Edward Joyce, fireman
Stockton train. scalded; S. S. Critics,
Bakersfield. scalded; three Chinese
women, badly bruised; George Wash
ington, owl cook. leg broken; Ed
slaughter. second cook, head and leg
cut; Charles Harris third cook, head
and leg injured; Z. Towles, fourth
cook. head cut, leg smashed; A A.
Sanderson, waiter, head cut; c. G.
Alexander, waiter, knee broken; Miss
Mary Baird, Fresno head slightly cut;
Engineer MacGuire, severely hurt; w
Emily Mayer, San Francisco; j.
i. Carroll, Suisun, scalded and bruised;
L n
scalded; Richard Post, Fowler, Cal,
scalded: F. F. Eastman, Paris,
Me, fatally injured; George Moka
Japanese, San Francisco, head cut;
Lou Len, Chinese, San Francisco,
Ecalded:. Lawrence Hunter. Eugene.
Ore, burns on head and face; E. Lee,
Louisville. KY, burns on head, face
and arms.
Awful Scenes Witnessed.
Frank II. Short, a prominent resident
of Fresno, who was at dinner with G.
H. RoweH. editor of the Fresno Re-
publican, when the collision occurred,
said in discussing the wreck:
1T was indescribably awful. A young
girl who was sitting opposite us with
a young gentleman was hurled against
me- her head striking on my nose and
nearly breaking it. She Immediately
became hysterical and Mr. Rowell and
y
where everything was confusion. Sew
eral successive jars occurred, the lights
went out, glass was crashing all about
us, the chandeliers tOppled down and
the crowd was almost panic stricken.
AS soon as we got her out we carried
her forward and put her into a car,
where she was taken care of.
I'VE then ran to the Fresno car, and
there was a scene of the most terrible
description. There were groans and
shrieks of awful agony, and the evil
4 dences of suffering were heart break
ing. Men were begging, appealing
swearing and groaning. And everything
was in utter darkness. A fence was
torn down and fires started to give
light Men were seen sticking out OF
windows with their limbs caught in the
mass of wreckage. Some had doubt
less met instant death, while Others
were horribly scalded and impaled In
the debris. On one side of the car the
people seemed to be mostly scalded
while on the other side they were
crushed. Among those penned up there
were no slight injuries; all were either
killed outright or seriously hurt.
Heroic Rescuers.
1--WE Immediately began the work OF
rescuing. With axes and saws we made
our way into the car and worked back
along the seats. carrying out the poor
unfortunates. l think every person
carried out had a broken limb. The
people in the train worked her0icaliy
and everything possible was done tC
allay the sufferings of the injured. The
special from Byron Springs bringing
DR.. Davidson and DR.. Byrd arrived
promptly and soon the injured thai
could be eXtricated from the debris
were made as comfortable as possible
I'm going around the car my atten-
ton was attracted by some one lyins
on the ground calling out Frank
bent over and saw that he was terribly
scalded. I did not recognize him. and
understood him to say his name was
Olsen. Ee managed to say that hC
thought he was pretty badly hurt. He
was rational. ] Immediately brought
DR.. Davidson to him, but he could not
wait to see whether anything could bs
done for him. Afterward 1 learned
that he was Clarence Olufs and that h,
had expired.
1.-THE plight of the Vernons father
and son, was particularly narrowing
The fathers body was sticking out o
the car window and he was begging K
be rescued quickly. as he said he wal
crushing his son underneath. w,