The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-03-14
IS FRE|GH|ED 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 HoteIs-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 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 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:
1.-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
olHeTWlSe naQ we not Deen klil6Q
we would have been cremated. The
coaches were burned up and never saw
anything burn so rapidly in my life. BY
the time l 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 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
From the latest accounts received Is
persons were killed outright and rs
were more or less injured.
The dead are:
Three children of Mart Riddle of Cetopa,
Kan; Estavon Contraras, Del Rio. Tex;
Andrew c. Shelley, wife and child, Loiror,
Tex; child of D. E. H0usen, Racine, Wis;
Mr.. and Mrs. White, Manitowoc, Wis;
Engineer AL. Mast, Ell Paso, Tex; Fireman
H. Bertscholst. Ell Paso, Tex; L. A Boone,
news agent, Doyline La: Chris Keel, con-
tractor San Antonio; w. w. Price, San
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
S,,rio
hand crushed; E. c. Baker, Angleton, Tex,
bruised Charles H. Hoy, San Antonio.
Tex, both feet scalded; A. E. Massey,
Wildly, Tex, scalp wound; j. I. Taylor,
Mulberry, Kan, head injured; Mrs. Mitch
ell, Philadelphia, Pa. hurt internally; w.
K Adams, express messenger, internal in
JurieS and badly scalde6; Craig Battleman,
North Dakota head and back hurt; Bis
coe Rodriguez, Del Rio. Tex. bruised; Luz
Ions Morales, Del Rio. Tex. slightly
bruised; Antonio Donul. Del Rio. Tex.
bruised; M. Lobert, residence unknown,
head hurt; D. P. Havens, FL Paso, Tex,
bruised; A. E. Mckenzie Stafford, A. T.,
slightly injured; H. j. Todd, Frankfort,
Ky, bruised; Thomas O. Crowder Hous-
ton, Tex, bruised; William Josephs San
Jose. Cal, back injured; J. H. Taylor
Birmingham, Ala, slightly hurt: Hugh
Mills, Chetopa. Kan, slightly injured: Dr.
G. c. Martin, Pecos City. Tex, slightly in
80 -. " - pSHiiett, %. III Ran,
bruised; w. S. Glenn. Blackhawk, Miss,
leg broken; Mrs. Annie Wortherst, San
Francisco. leg and hand crushed.
Dead Placed at Twelve.
Houston, Tex, March 10.-At South
ern Pacific headquarters Saturday it
was reported that the number of dead
by the MaXon wreck is -. it being con-
coded four of the missing are dead
The two still missing and not account
ed dead are Chris Kiel and w. Price
Reports of the injured from Ell Paso