Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-07
TRAIN FIRE IS FATAL
One Passenger Dead and Three Injured on
Los Angeles Limited.
CAUSE OF BLAZE NOT DISCOVERED
Tourists Aroused and One Overcome by
Volume Of Smoke.
ACCIDENT OCCURS NEAR LoVELAND, IOWA
Train is Enroute on Northwestern from
Omaha to Chicago at Time.
CONDUCTOR PREVENTS GREATER DISASTER
Dead Man r. Louis De Lario of wash
inEton, Supposedly Employed on
Congregational Committee on
Irrigated Lands.
CONDUCTOR PREVENTS GREATER DISASTER
LOUIS DE LARIo. Laramie. wyo.

LOUIS DE LARIO, Laramie, Wyo.
Injured:
burns on neck and head
Henry Cabrow. Salt Lake City, right
Mrs. b. Higgins, Carbondale, Pa, suffered
from exposure.
One passenger dead and three injured are
the mortal results of the second fatal acci-
dent TO befall Los Angeles Limited train
No within a week, when a Pullman
sleeper caught fire early Sunday n. ming
while the train was running fro n Ill
Bluffs 20 Missouri Valley, en- roh y, ,y.
cago. Last Wednesday evening No. E, =,
No 2, Overland Limited came togeth
Brule. Neb., with fatal results
The Northwestern train had got within b
mile OF Loveland. near Missouri Valley,
when passengers in Pullman car Redfeld
were aroused by smoke. Conductor Hamlin
was instantly on the scene trying to dis
cover the cause of the sfnoldering fire
which filed the car with smoke, but fall
ing addressed himself heroically to the task
of protecting his passengers and saving the
train.
This car was third from the rear. Be
tween It and the end was another coach and
an observation car. Before anyone else
had time to collect his thoughts Conductor
Hamlin taking In the situation at a glance,
was under the car, scarcely yet brought to
a standstill and uncouplng 1t from the
rest OF the train He rushed his panic
stricken passengers into the rear car and
thus probably prevented a far more appal-
ling disaster
Conductor First One Alert.
While passengers were aroused by the
smoke, the conductor was one of the first
70 discern that something was wrong.
The trouble was discovered about $40, when
the train was about one mile east of Love-
land a small station on the Northwestern.
Women screamed and men jumped out OF
their berths in search of the fire. 1t could
not be found and thus far no one is GER
tain where or what 1t was. The conductor
and porter had an idea that a woman with
a little child had lighted an alcohol lamp
IN her berth TO heat milk or food of some
sort for the haby. They went to this berth
while excitement was at its height, but
were unable to confirm their suspicious.
This may have been the correct theory; 1t
may not
The catastrophe threw the passengers into
great excitement; all were awakened, 1t
seems but one, and had that one responded
to the common nervous shock the accident
might have passed with nothing more seri-
GUS than badly burned Pullman car and
q few passengers slightly injured.
Ne LarIO Does Not wake.
But Louis De Lario did not wake. He
was in a deep sleep and slept on until
his slumbers became eternal His body was
found face downward in the aisle of the car.
Evidently he had become partially over
come by the smoke in his sleep and half
waking had rolled from his berth and
struggled for his life, but too late He was
terribly burned, the flames having almost
entirely consumed what apparel he had on.
.I,. -.
only served to heighten the nervous strain
upon the others but the cool heads OF Con-
ductor Hamln and those who were helping
solve the difficulty averted complications
from this cause
Conductor Hamlin cut the burning car
loose from the others after he had hurried
his passengers into the rear car, hastened
TO Missouri Valley with the burning car
and then went back for the others. taking
with him DR.. G. w. Colt, the Northwestern
physician and surgeon at Missouri Valley.
He then rushed the sufferers and other
passengers into Missouri Valley. There
the body OF De Lario was taken in charge
by the coroner and the injured were placed
In the depot passenger rooms and given
food and every medical attention necessary
Ticket Agent Pike was at the command OF
DR.. Colt In administering to the victims
Those who had lost clothing in the FIRE
were amply supplied and their lot wai
made as comfortable as possible under ths
circumstances.
Porter Left with victims.
porter on the train was left by Con
ductor Hamlin with the injured passenger,
to be of service to them and the conductor
after holding his train until $50 a m, re
sumed the trip TO Chicago.
The train escaped damage, save for tn,
car Redheld, which was badly burned. anC
a car next to It which was slightly burnet
at one end.
De LArios home is evidently at Laramie
Wyo., as the coroner received Telegram
from the Albany County National bank al
laramie asking that the body be sem
there and stating the bank would pay OK
penses. Papers in the dead mans pockets
show him TO have been clerk OF the con
Eressional committee on irrigated and arid
lands. and this is confirmed by the Con
gressional Record. His ticket read from
Laramie and II was supposed he had beer
west on business for the committee anC
was returning to Washington. Word wal
transmitted 10 his address in Washington
which his papers showed to have beer
liOl X street. northwest.
His body was held by the coroner, VIII,
win conduct inquest at o'clock thI
morning. and also this afternoon. when IN,
burned car win be examined.