Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-03-09
VICTIMS OF WRECK
CARRIED TO Ell PASO
Like Giant Nurse Train Crept
Across Desert.
MoRcUE AND HOSPITAL FULL

Accident at Maxon, Tells Graphic
and Thrilling Story of the Terrible
Holocaust Which Followed Plunge.
El Paso, Tex, March 8.-Creeping
like a 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 night long to be
remembered by those who witnessed
the dead and the manned taken from
the coaches. Men, women Nnd 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
taken to the hotels or hospitals. Hus-
bands and wives chung to each other,
the terrible scenes of the morning still
fresh in their memory.
New Yorker Tells of Horror.
Said a 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 fortunate 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 anything
| burn so rapidly in my life. By the
time | got out of the Pullman there
was little left of the smoker and chair
| car except cinders and ashes. The
! cries and groans of the unfortunate
victims is something long to be re-
membered, and we were as helpless as
| babes to assist them. 1t is my estima-
| ton that the exact number of dead
will never be ascertained, as nearly
every passenger on the train was
asleep when the accident occurred.
| Probably the majority Of the passen-
| gers in the front coaches met death be-
fore the fire finished the deadly work" 3"
It was reported here that as the en-
| gine left the inside Of the reverse
curve the accident was not due to
fast running.
1t was reported here that as the en-
gine left the inside of the reverse
cruve the accident was not due to
| fast running.
From tn latest accounts received
and % were more or less injured, as
follows:
The dead:
Three children of Mart Riddle, of
| Chetopa, Kans
Estavon Contras, Del Rio, Tex.
Andrew c. Spelly, wife and child,
Loirer, Tex.
Child of D. e. Housens, Racine, Wis.
Mr.. and Mrs. White, Manitowoc,
| Wis
Engineer Al Mast, Ell Paso, Tex.
Fireman Bertscholt, Ell Paso, Tex.
L. A. Boon, news agent, DOyline, La
Chris Keel, contractor, San Antonio.
". w. Price, engineer, San Antonio.
The injured:
Mrs. Mary Koehler, San Francisco,
| internal injuries; A. S. Turner, Black
| Hawk, Miss, hand crushed; Mrs. E. NJ
| Sheppard, Glenn Mills, Pa, head hurt;
| J. Fuller, Washington, d. c., leg and
foot crushed; Antonio Elry, Del Dio
| Tex, internal injuries; George Ollen.
burg, Lexington, KY, hand mashed;
E. c. Baker, Angleton, Tex, bruised;
| Charles H. Hoey, San Antonio, Tex,
both feet scalded; A. E. Massey, Will.
| by, Tex, scalp wound; J. I. Taylor,
| Mulberry, Kans., head injuredj Mrs
| Mitchell, Philadelphia, Pa, hurt inter
nally; w. r. Adams, express messen.
| ger, internal injuries and badly scald-
| ed; Craig Battleman, North Dakota,
head and back hurt; Biscoe Rodriguez,
| Del Rio, bruised; Lulon Merales, Del
| Rio, Tex slightly injured; Antonio
| Donul, Del Rio, Tex, slightly injured;
M. Lobert, residence unknown, head
hurt; D. H. Havens, Ell Paso, Tex,
bruised; A. F. Mckenzie, Stafford, Ariz.,
slightly injured; H. J. Todd, Frankfort,
KY, bruised Thomas o. Crowder,
Houston, Tex, bruised; William Jo.
sephs, San Jose, Cal, back bruised;
J. H. Taylor, Birmingham, Ala, slight
ly hurt; Hugh Mills, Chetopa, Kans.,
slightly injured; DR.. G. G. Martin, Pc,
cos City, Tex, slightly injured; c. w.
Bennett, st. Paul, Kans., bruised; w.
S. Glenn, Black Hawk, Miss, leg brok
en-; Mrs. Annie Wothers, San Francis.
60, leg and hand crushed.
Houston, Tex, March Sat South.
ern Pacific headquarters this morning
| 1t was reported that the number Of
dead by the Maxon wreck is -, it be.
ing conceded four of the missing are
dead. The two still missing and not
accounted dead are Chris Kiel and w.
Price. Reports of the injured at El
Paso are to the effect that none have
died, but three may die during the day.
The cause of the wreck is still a
mystery Railroad officials believe il
was an obstruction on the track or a
broken rail, while some survivors as.
sert that the arain was running very