The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-13
Terrible Scenes Follow
 the Srnash-up.
FLESH OF PASSENGERS
 COOKED BY HOT WATER
Train Was Running at Terrific
 Rate of Speed.
It Bore Merry Party of I45 shriners Returnfhg to Buffalo and Read
 ing-Many Deeds of Hero- ism nre Recorded.

Santa Barbara. Cal. May 12--while hurrying northward over. the coast line of the Southern Pacific Railroad yester- day afternoon. homeward bound, after q week of fraternizing and fiesta in Los Angeles, 145 Shriners. Of Ismaiia Tenn pie of Buffalo, and Rajah Temple of Reading. Pa, with their families and friends, were hurled into the midst of death, when their special train. run ming fifty miles an hour, struck de- fective switch at Honda, Q lonely sta- ton on the sand waste of the Pacific Beach, derailing the train, smashing the coaches into flinders. killing thirty-hve almost instantly and injuriug more than score of others. The bodies of twen- ty-five lie in the morgues at Santa Bar bara this afternoon, and ten more are at San Luis Obispo. The injured, many of whom are terribly hurt. are in two san- itariums at San Luis Obispo-
 The wreck occurred at 2:1S o'clock, one hour and forty-ave minutes after N the conclave visitors forming a merry party had spent all the morning sight seeing in Santa Barbara. The statement that the traip was making terrific speed when it struck the defective track is borne out by the fact that 1t covered the sixty-one miles of curves and crook ed track between here and Honda in ex- actly one hundred minutes.
 Hugh Heap of Wreckage.
 There was no warning of the inn pending calamity. The special plunged upon the defective switch and in an instant the big locomotive. baggage car. diner and Pullman coupled with it were hurled together in huge heap of wrecRage. The engine shot forward on the broken track, tearing up the rails and ties and twisting the huge iron spans into fish hooks. The bag gage car half buried itself in the sand z&el Af Nt1 was smashed almost to kindling wood.
 The dining car. in which were thirty two persons eating their monday meal leaped into the air and was thrown directly on top of the demolished To- comotive. Nearly every person in this coach was instantly killed. Scores were scaided by steam escaping from disconnected pipes in the kitchen Of the diner.
 The terror and turmoil of the scene was indescribable. Many of those who escaped instant death by the first im- pact were crushed by the rear coaches hurled upon the wreckage. Others, pinioned in the debris. were roasted alive. The wreckage caught fire from the coals of the engine. but was extin- guished in few minutes by the pas sengers who escaped injury.
 Engineer Frank Champlane was pitched with his cab twenty five feet beyond the engine and got up and ran three quarters of a mile, seeking helr before he discovered that his arm was broken and that he was severely scalded+ A man standing behind his wife in the baggage car was hurled through a huge rent in the roof and talighted into soft and yielding sand almost uninjured. The woman was forced through the floors and wreck CTS had to life tons of baggage to get her body out.
 Caught In Death Trap.
 The unfortunates who occupied every seat in the dining car were caught in a veritable death trap. Only two of the nine men of the diner crew are among the dead. The remainder, though cooped in the narrow kitchen and pantry, sustained bad cuts and bruises
 A last call for luncheon had just sounded a few minutes before the dis aster.
 Rajah Temple. of Reading. occupied the last car on the train and were the last ones to go forward to the diner. The car was filled almost entirely with Reading people when the wreck oc- cured. An instant after the smash those who were not rendered 1nsensi- ble or otherwise incapacitated by the impact, jumped from the train to rem der aid, but the gruesome scene before
 
 had to do long hours before relief ar rived.
 Frightened women, peering through windows of the undamaged sleeper tainted when they saw the bodies of their friends strewn along the road side, blood from the wounds staining the sand drifts all about. Men who toiled hard at the task of rescue col lapsed completely. many of them before the wreck was finished.
 Two Women suMer.
 Mrs John w. Cutler, of Bingham 70 ton, whose husband is also among the killed, was in the baggage car at the time of the crash. where she had gone, to rearrange her trunk. Her body was driven through the floor of the wrecked car and the car had to be lacked up before it could be released.
 Mrs. Fred Greenwood of Bingham tton was with her and also went down under the tons of baggage and broken timbers.
 When rescuers burrowed their way to where the two women lay, the liv- ing grasped the feet of the dead man and shouted: T will not let you go until you get me out" Then a gust of scaiding steam enveloped her and she was terribly burned. She was rescued alive, however and was among those. taken to San Luis Obispo.
 
 O., was taken from the shattered din- CT she was still alive. but frightfully injured Her entire body had been showered with boiling water and when women friends removed her corset the imprint of the stays was left deep in the scalded flesh.
 There were countless deeds of cour- age and heroism and self-abnegat1on. A. D. Hagerman of Reading refused the aid of his brother Nobles after they had dragged him, fatally hurt, from the wreck.
 q am dying" he said. Ego help the women"
 HerOism of DeabaId.
 Sander Deabald of Cleveland worked heroically, but unavailingly to save the lives of two women pinioned beneath the diner. The flames had broken out amid the wreckage and were burning all about the prostrate forms of wo- men Burrowing his way down into the smouldering, splintered wreck Dea-