The Washington herald., 1907-05-12

Los Angeles, Cal. May u.-Thirty per
sons were killed and probably fifty in
jured in wreck of the first and second
sections of a north-bound special on the
Southern Pacific Railroad, near surfs. a
small station sixty miles north q santa
Barbara. at 2:O5 this afternoon. The
trains were filled with Mystic Shriners
When word of the accident was re-
Ceived at Shriners' headquarters this aft
ernoon the Alexandria. Masonic Temple,
and other hotels were besieged by frantic
friends, but little early information. be-
youd bulletins. was obtainable The trains
to-day bore hundreds of Shriners bound
for San Francisco on their way home
The bulletins said that the first section
ran into "a bowlder. and that the second
section plunged into the wreckage of the
first, and went over an embankment.
Recent rains had dislodged several bowld-
ers, bur ali had apparently been properly
detected and removed by section forces.
Because OF poor teIegraphie facilities on
this coast point, details are coming in
slowly. but long distance telephone flashes
say the scenes were so horrifying that
Shriners lost their reason temporarily be
cause of the horror of the scenes.
Fourteen of the. dead are Mystic
shriners.
List Of the Dead.
Following is the list Of dead SO far as
obtainabie:
Isanaiis Temple Buffalo.
$. A, WATSON. Buffalo.
]. 81 CUTTER and wife Binghsmton n. T.
Mrs FISHER Cleveland Ohio
Mrs YOUNG. Cleveland. Ohio.
CHARLES W. LOWING, Buffalo.
SIR. AUSTIN tourist agent.
Rajah yempIe, Reading, PA.
J, " HIPPLE.
g. STOFFE.
HARRY HENDLE
OLIVER KAUFMAN
GEORGE HAGERNAN.
HARRY sTOTZ
HARRY MILLER
A L. ROLF. all Of Reading
- HENRY. Lebanon Pa.
Included in the list of dead also are one (
Pullman and one dining car conductor
and two walters.
Contrary 10 first reports. no members OF !
Mecca Temple, of New York nor Kismet |!
Of Brooklyn were among the dead, none
of them being aboard the train.
Late tonight il is said that twenty-five Z
Of the injured are in serious condition,
and that several more fatalities viii 4
probably result. Most of the injured were /
taken 10 santa Barbara on a special 1
train, which was rushed to the scene of |
the wreck Immediately upon receipt Of the /
hrst dispatches.
Train Hits BOwIder.
Reports Of the cause Of the wreck were 4
conflicting. Owing to the inaccessibiity of /
the scene of the disaster. details were
slow in coming out Most reliable state
ments are that the train, while running
at a high speed. struck a big bowlder
which had fallen on the track.
At the point where the accident 0c-
CURED the road runs close to the ocean.
The force of the shock derailed the train
and caused the Wreckage to pitch down
an embankment-
The first five cars of the train. a bag
gsge and buffet car, a diner and three
tourist sleepers, were smashed TO kind
ling by the force of the heavy Pullmans
IN the rear of the train. The debris piled
up over the engine and tender and took
FIRE
All Of the killed were occupants of the
tourist sleepers. The standard PuIImans
We're practically undsmaged. and the oc-
Cupants Of these rushed TO the rescue of
their less fortunate companions
bucket brigade was formed and the 4,nin-
Jured extnguished the flames before anv
OF the wrecked victims was burned.
Dead and Injured Removed.
BY the time the relief train reached N.
scene most of the dead and injured had
been removed by trafnmen and uniniured
passengers.
The scene OF the wreck was midway he
tween santa Barbara and San Luis
Obispo,
The full membership OF the Temples was
not learned in the early returns. as nnanV
who came here on special traina
deserted their comrades, having resolved
10 stay here longer TO make side trims
and go north by other routes.
In Los Angeles the news had the effect
OF causing many Shriners to delay deDar-
lures, while the "All Fools BaU' nj T.,
Venice tonight was modified