Arizona republican., 1905-10-31


 sons were killed and thirty injured in the wreck today of the Atchison, Tope- ka and Santa F'e passenger train No. 1, known as the California. Express which, while running at a rate of thirty-five miles an hour, struck a loose rail, ditching five cars, one mile east of Blue River, which is in the eastern limits of this city. The train, which left Chicago at 10 o'clock last night, and was due here at 10:30 this morn ing, is a through train running be- tween Chicago and San Francisco. It was running at a higher speed than usual, being ten or fifteen minutes be- hind it's schedule.
 The wreck occurred at what the rail- road men call the Rock Creek cut, on a curve where jagged walls on each side of the track form a bluff almost a hundred feet high. The engine was going so rapidly that it passed the loose rail in safety. The mail car, inn mediately behind, jumped the track and struck the side of the bluff to the right, and the four cars following plowed through it and shot against the high stone wall to the left. The sides of the coaches were torn off by scrap ing against the rough stone surface, and passengers and trainmen ground against the wall were either killed out right or badly hurt. The cars which left the track were a mail car, the baggage and express cars, a smoking car, a chair car, and tourist sleeping car. Three tourist sleepers, two stand ard PuIlmans and the dining car ahead of it were just below the floor line, and the baggage car, when it stopped, was on top of what was left of the smoking car. The other de- railed cars were damned against the rocks of the bluff, except the splintered fragments of the smoker.
 None of the passengers in the cars which remained on the track were in jured. Relief trains, with surgeons and physicians left this city for the scene of the wreck as soon as possible. Pending the arrival of the relief train the abIe-bOdied passengers and train men did all they could to care for the dead and alleviate the distress of the injured. Their efforts were handi- capped by a cold rain, which fell stead fly and added gloom to the situation. The passengers worked heroically un- der difficulties, and when the doctors arrived most of the dead and injured had been dug out of the WreCkage. In many instances it was necessary to dig under the debris to extricate the unfortunate victims. One man in the smoker had been pinioned against a hot stove, with one foot in the stove, suffering untold agony as his foot was slowly burning by the live coals. This was one of the many agonizing scenes witnessed by the rescuers. The injured were given emergency treatment at the scene of the wreck, and later brought to the hospitals in this city, where it is reported tonight that all will re- cover. The dead were taken in charge by the county coroner and brought to a local mOrgue.
 The dead:
 ROY STAFFORD, 1O9 Hayden av- enue, Cleveland.
 LEE D. MONTGOMERY, Linneus, Mo.
 JAS. SEYMOUR, Richmond, Mo-, cashier of the Ray county savings bank.
 JOHN McGREGOR, a Santa Fe en- gineer, Fort Madison, Iowa.
 MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, Chicago.
 J. F. CAPS, baggageman, Chicago.
 CARL EMIL TOREN, immigrant, 254 St. Marks street Brooklyn.
 ROMASTISIO PECCI, immigrant from Neples
 POMORIO ROCCO, immigran, from Naples.
 LUTHER RICHARDSON, coIored porter, Chicago.
 VIM. HARRISON colored porter, Chicago.
 ADRIAN PEATTEUT, immigrant from Northing, Switzerland
 J. B. WHITTEMORE, CarroIlton Mo, badly scaIded, died at hospital to- night.
 The injured:
 B. F. Celley. 4SOS Prairie avenue, Chicago, leg broken.
 H. A. Leagrdine, 523O Ohio street, Chicago, express messenger, leg broken. arm hurt.
 Archie Carter, Richmond, Mo, news agent crushed leg, arm broken.
 J. M. KiIlian, La Harpe, Kansas, leg broken.
 Aaron Berkason, 151 Maxwell street, Chicago, grocer; slightly hurt.
 Ralph Skinner La Harpe, Kansas, leg broken, head cut.
 Ralph Reinhardt. 30 sherman street, Buffalo, N. Y, leg crushed.
 J. V. Bishop, Chicago, hoisting en- gineer; leg broken; bruised about the head and body.
 Campbell Grant, RetfOrd. Eng. on way to 11S East Fifth street, Los An geles; head and chest crushed; prob ably hurt internally. condition serious.
 R. c. Curtis, Chicago, both legs broken; severe bruises.