Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-05-16
SHR|NERS IN WRECK
TH|RTY-ONE killed
SPECIAL TRAIN is DITCHED BY A
DEFECTIVE SWITCH IN
CALIFORNIA.
Hight Women Are Dead-More Than
a Score of Persons lnjured-Vic-
Tins Are Horribly scalded and
Burned.

Santa Barbara, CAL, May 13.-While
hurrying northward over the coast
line of the Southern Pacific railroad
Saturday afternoon, homeWard bound
sitter a week Of fraternizing and fiesta
in Los Angeles, 145 Shriners of Is
malta temple, of Buffalo, and. Rajah
temple, of Reading, with their fam
lilies and friends, were hurled into
the midst of death.
Their special train, running so miles
IN hour, struck defective switch at
Honda, lonely station on the sand
wastes of the Pacific beach, derailing
the train, smashing the coaches into
flinders, killing 81 almost instantly,
and injuring more than score Of 9th.
ers. The bodies of 81 lie in the
morgues of Santa Barbara, and ten
more are at San Luis Obispo. The in.
jured, many of whom are terribly hurt
and will probably die, are in two sani-
tariums at San Luis ObisGo.
Train Was Running Fast.
The wreck occurred exactly at
1885 o'clock, one hour and forty-fve
minutes after the conclave visitors,
forming merry party, had spent all
the morning sight seeing in Santa
Barbara. The statement that the
train was making. a terrific speed
when it struck the defective track, is
borne out by the fact that it covered
the 81 miles of curves and crooked
track between here and Honda in ex.
sctly 100 minutes.
There was no warning of the, i'm.
pending calamity. The special plunged,
spon the detective switch, and in an
instant the big locomotive, baggage,
eaf, diner and Pullman were hurled
together in a. huge heap OF. wreckage.
The engine shot forward on the
broken track, tearing up the rails, and,
ties and twisting the iron spans, into
ash hooks. The baggage car half.
buried itself in the sand on the, right
side Of the locomotive.
& d. Many seaIded and Burned.
The dining car, in which were 81
persons eating their MONDAY meal,
ACopOu lAIO LA0 Oil anu was LHiO"A
directly on top of the demolished
locomotive. Nearly every person in
this coach was instantly killed.
Scores were scalded by steam escap-
tng 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 i'm.
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 Goals of the engine, but was ex.
unguished in a few minutes by the
passengers who escaped injury.
Diner Was 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 numbered among the dead.
The remainder, though cooped up in
the narrow kitchen and pantry, sus-
tanned bad cuts and bruises.
"A
sounded few minutes before the dis.
aster. Rajah temple, of Reading, oc-
cupied the last car on the train and
its members were the last ones to go
forward to the diner. The car was
filled almost entirely with Reading
people when the wreck occurred An
instant after the smash those. who
were not rendered insensible or other.
wise incapacitated by the terrible i'm.
pact, jumped from the train to rem
der aid, but the gruesome scene be.
fore them untitled many for the work
they had to do.
Deeds of Brave Men.
There were countless deeds of cOur.
age and heroic self-abnegation. A. D.
Hagerman, of Reading, Pa, refused
the aid Of his brother mobiles after
they had dragged him, fatally hurt,
from the wreck.
II am dying" he said, go help the
women"
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 PROSTATE
forms of women. Burrowing his way
down into the smouldering, splintered
wreck, Deabald, with hose which he
had wrenched from coach connec
ton, spouted water from an adjacent
tank and extinguished the flames
Then he reached down and, after cut.
ting away the broken timbers that
held her fast, took Mrs. William w.
Essick, Of Reading, from the ruins.
She was begging piteously for relief
when Deabald reached her. AS he lift.
ed her from the wreckage a Stream Of
boiling water poured over her, scar.
ing her body terribly She expired
a few minutes later and Deabald was
forced back into the sleeper, unable