Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-01-03
CALIFORNIA TRAIN WRECK

Papers received by the Alaskan give
the following account of the railroad
wreck near San Francisco On the goth
ult:
Byron. Cal. Dec. 20.-Ten persons
we're killed and twenty-seyen injured
in collision tonight between the
south-bound Los Angeles owl" train
and the Stockton flyer. 1t was rear
end collision, the engine of the local
blowing its way through the last coach
on the owl" which was filled with
Fresno people. The passengers who
escaped instant death were hurled to
the fore part of the coach, crushed In
between the mass of debris, their suf-
ferings and danger intensified a hum
dred-told by the clouds of scalding
steam that poured out on them from
the shattered boiler OF the stockton en-
CINE.
The owl left the Oakland mole
about 5 o'clock. and on the way to this
point II was noted that there was
leak In the flue of the engine. This In
creased to such an extent that II was
deemed advisable to stop here and take
up a freight engine for relief, The
train officials knew that No. "a. the
Stockton local. was following n half
hour behind. and fagman was sent
back down the track TO give warning
of the presence of the owl" II is said
that the Stockton train. In charge of
Engineer Mcguire and Fireman Joyce.
got the warning signal in due time, and
gave the usual response with whistle
blasts. Why the incoming train was
not checked. however, has not been
thus far explained. the men who could
give the facts being numbered among
the badly injured
On came the train with apparently
scarcely any diminutlon of speed. ana
the Fresno coach was completely tele-
scoped. SO forcibly did the local meet
the rear OF the owl" that the end OF
the second car, the dining car, was
smashed in. and all OF the three cooks
were seriously hurt
1t seems miraculous that the horror
OF fire was not added to the direfu
disaster. but the penned up victim;
were, with seemingly proyerbial inter
ventlon. spared from fame. for the oil
burners were extinguished when tn,
crash came.
Relief quickly came to the passen
gers who were penned in the wreck
age. axes and saws being brought into
play and passengers and train crew
lending eager aid
None OF the passengers of No. s.
=, were injured and all OF the crew o
, the Owl escaped unhurt,
OF the ten killed 1t was possible L
! identify but one person. The other
were not known to their fellow passen
gers. and up TO late hour nothing
was found on their persons 10 furnish
clue to their names or residence.
The list OF the dead follows.
Charles A. Sessions, Oakland; cap
itallst.
Mrs, George H. Smith, Fresno.
= Clarence ID. Olufs, Fresno; Berkele.
student
Miss Birdie Elliott, San Francisco
Miss Mabel Vezey, Modesto; Berkele
:. student
Charles Owens. Fresno; racing mar
Robert Renwick, Fresno.
W. f. Temple, Oakland; organize
Of Woodmen of the World.
' Len Irwin, oaklandi mattress-mak
= er.
. Tung Tia Gong, San Francisco; Chin
: ese woman.
Amelia Mayer, aged IS; Fresno.
Carl Mayer, aged 8; Fresno.
Hadru Miayowa, apanese baby,
- Miayowa, four-year-old Japanes
girl.
s. Richard S. Post, Fowler, Cal.
" Miss Alice Sullivan, aged %; oal
" land.
Charles ]. Vernon, Fresno
=, Walter Vernon, aged II. Fresno
~ Miss Stella Howard, aged 10, Sa
Francisco.
= "