Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-14
EIGHT INJURED
IN COAST WRECK
BURBANK VICTIMS RESTING
IN LOS ANGELES
Track Walkers Are PatroIllne Road
beds In Washout Districts to
Guard Against Repetition OF
Disastrous Smashup
The Injured


Edmund Raynard, 110 West Ann
street, Los Angeles, engineer; prop-
ably fatally scalded.
Frank Gowing, 525 South Daily street
Los Angeles, fireman; body bru1sed,
Charles Nye, 729 Hyde street, San
Francisco, express messenger; pouy
and limbs bruised.
James T. Lyons, San Francisco chel
head injured. 1,
John Sehingle, San Francisco prdhe-
man: body bruised.
John Schang, cook on dining car;
hands cut.
Miss M. Meigher, Pasadena face cut
]. c. Knock, Santa Barbara; hands
cut and bruised
AS the result OF a wreck on the
Southern Pacific coast line near Bur-
bank shortly before midnight Monday
night, Edmund Raynard of 11O West
Ann street, Los Angeles, the engineer,
is lying at the Sisters hospital In
very precarious condition. Late last
night the attending physicians could
hold out but little hope of his recoV-
cry.
The train was due in Los Angeles
at las %. m. and was late When the
accident occurred. 1t was under full
headway when Engineer Raynard be-
came aware that the track had been
discovery was too late to avert an ac-
cident.
Raynard applied the air and reversed
the engine and bravely stuck to his
post when the big engine, No 2251,
went into the cut that had been made
by the treacherous water.
The engine, tender and baggage car
fell into the mud and water and the
other cars came tumbling in on top.
Only the day coach, out of eleven cars,
remained standing on the tracks.
Costly Wreck
AS far as damage to equipment, the
wreck was one of the worst that the
Southern Pacific has had. Seven
others besides the engineer were in
jured but not seriously. The fireman
escaped by jumping.
In the darkness and rain the pas
sengers were thrown into a panic and
could not be quieted until it was
learned that no one had been killed.
Engineer Raynard was imprisoned
under the engine and probably owes
his life to the fact that he landed upon
soft sand, in which he was almost
buried.
1t was only by a supreme effort in
which the passengers united with the
trainmen that he was released, not
until he had been very severely scald-
ed, These burns, the physicians say,
may cause his death as they are diff
cult to ease.
He was Immediately attended by DR..
Thompson of Burbank. who gave aid
to all of the injured Many were
bruised and shocked.
The injured persons were brought to
Los Angeles on a special and are now
at the Sisters hospital. Other passen-
gers hired teams to take them to Glen
dale and came to Los Angeles yester-
day morning over the electric line.
Other Washouts were experienced
along the line at various points on the
valley line as we'll as on the coast
line. All traffic to and from the north
was at standstill until noon yester-
day.
The Owl arrived at 1855 yesterday
noon, four hours late, and the train
due at 7:05 did not arrive until
o'clock The train which should have
left for the north at 1880 Monday
night did not leave until 1890 yester-
day noon.
Large crews of workmen were at
once put to work repairing the dam
age done by the floods, which entirely
subsided as soon as it stopped raining.
Traffic was resumed over the coast line
at o'clock last evening.
The Overland from the east was de-