The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-08
PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED
FIFTEEN PEOPLE KILLED ON
 THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
Twenty-eight More or Less Iptured- List of the Dead and Hurt-Train Run ming st High Rate of Speed to Make Up Time-Leaves Track on Account of Broken Rail.

Broken Hail.
 San Antonio Texas. March '. - A broken rail caused a frightful wreck OH the Southern Pacific railroad near Maxon Station, twenty-five miles west of Sanderson, at o'clock this morning. From the latest accounts received here fifteen people were killed outright and twenty eight were more or less injured. The dead are:
 Three children of Mart Riddle of Che topa, Kan; Estavon Contraras, Del Rio, Texas; Andrew c. Shelly, wife and child. Loiror, Texas: child of D. E. Housen. Racine, Wis: MT. and Mrs. White, Manitowock Wis; Engineers Al Mast, El Paso, Texas; Fireman H. Bertscholst, Fl Paso, Texas; l.. A. Boone news agent, Doyline, La; Chris Keel contractor, San Antonio; w. w. Price, engineer San Antonio.
 The worst injured: Mrs. Mary Koch Ter, San Francisco, internal injuries; J. Fuller, Washington, D. C., leg and foot crushed; Antonio Fl Rio, Del Rio, Tex as. internal injuries; Charles H. Hoy, San Antonio. Texas, both feet scalded; Mrs. Mitchell, Philadelphia, hurt inter- nally; w. P. Adams, express messen- ger, internal injuries and badly scalded; Craig Battleman, North Dakota, head and back hurt; Mrs, Annie Wortherst, San Francisco Cal, leg and head crushed,
 The ill-fated train left San Antonio at noon Thursday. two and half hours late and at the time of the accident was running al a high rate of speed in or der to make up time. The road at the point where the wreck occurred is in a rough country, the curves being sharp and the grades heavy. It was when rounding a curve that the train left the track, on account of a broken rail- it is said.
 The hour was a. m, fifteen hours af- ter the train had left San Antonio, show ing that it was still behind time All the passengers were asleep and the shock that followed was the first indi- cation they had of the danger.
 The train was going at such a rate of speed that the tender and engine landed seventy-five feet from where they left the rails. The cars behind were piled up against the engine and caught fire and all were consumed ex- cept the sleepers
 A private car owned by Thomas Ryan of New York, with his family aboard, was attached to the rear of the train but was pulled away before the fire reached it and no one in it was in jured.
 All the injured Tn the coaches just be- hind the engine and baggage car were cremated. The people in the sleepers were saved with the assistance of the uniniured passengers.
 The wrecked tram was, the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Westbound passenger and consisted of an engine, mail car baggage car, one coach, on chair car three tourist sleepers, one Pullman sleeper and one private car.
 The mail car the baggage car and coaches were piled together against the engine and were ablaze 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,
 As soon as 1t was possible to get in communication with the division head quarters relief trains with surgeons and physicians were started from Fl Paso, Del Rio and Sanderson. They picked up along the line all the surgeons that could be found.
 ! All the injured who were in a condi-