The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-13
HORRIBLE DETAILS Of
WRECK IN CALIFORNIA
Many of the Victims of the Catastrophe at
Honda Literally Cooked by Is
Gaping Steam.
Thrty-Two Dead and Many njured-Some of the Latter
Cannot LNe-Train Going at Terrific Speed.

WHO
not rendered insensible or otherwise in
capacitated by the terrific impact, Jumped
/ from the train 10 repder AID, but the
grewsome sceI.e before them untitled
many for the work they had to do in
the Ions hours before relief arrived.
HeartrendIng Scenes.
! Frightened women. peering through the
windows of the unchanged sleeper, faint
ed when they saw the bodies of their
friends strewn along the roadside blood
/ from the gaping wounds staining the
sand drifts ali about. Men who toiled
hard at the task of rescue collapsed COM
pietely, many of them before the work
was finished.
Mrs John W Cutler OF Binghamton
! whose husband IS also among the killed,
/ was in the ia sgage car at the time of
the crash. where she had gone to rear
range her trunk. Her body driven
literally through the floor and the
: wrecked car had to be lacked up before
: IL could be released
3 Mrs. Fred Grummond of Binghamton
was with her. and also went down I'M
/ der the tons of baggage and broken tim
! When rescuers burrowed their way to
where the two women lay. the living
! one reached out and grssped the feet of
I one Of the men and shouted
out"
Then a gust OF sealding steam envel-
oped her. and she was terribly burned
among those talsen TO San Luis Obispo.
Girl Literally Cooked.
When Miss Cora Young of Cleveland
was taken from the shattered diner she
was still living. but frightfuIly injured
Her entire body had been showered with
boiling wafer and when women friends
! removed her corsets the imprint of the
/ STAYS was left deep ia the scaided flesh
! There were countless deeds of courage
! and self-abnegation. A D. Hagerman of
Reading. refused the aid of his brother
I mobiles after they had dragged him. IA
tally hurt. from the wreck.
women
Sander Debald of Cleveland worked he
roicaIiy. but unavailingly to save the
| lives OF two women pinned beneath the
diner. The flames had broken ont amid
the wreckage and were burning all about
! pIostrate forms of women. Burrow-
ing his way into the snoldering splint-
cred wreck. Deabald, with a hose which
| ne h2d Wrenched from d coach -connec-
nor. spouted water from an adjacent
Help Came Too Late.
Then he reached down and after cut-
ing away the broken timbers that held
her fast. took Mrs, William w Essick
OF Reading from the ruins She vvss hes-
ging piteously for relief when DeahaId
reached her. As ne lifted her from The
WrecKsse stream Of boiling water
poured over her. soaring her body ter
ribly- Women passengers sought to re-
/ move ner upper garments but tainted
| When the flesh came off with the cloth
Ing. She expired after a few minutes
atter being carried out on the sand and
Deabald was forced back into the sIee6-
er, Unable longer to endure the harrow
ing scenes on every hand
II was the most horrible sight l ever
iaid eyes on, he said. whenever 7
touched her the print Of the fingers re
NAMED IN the almost fluid flesh
henry j. Fisher of Cleveland went under
protest with his wife and her daurhters
Miss Cora Young and Mrs. John w 90
ter TO the baggage car. The three Wo
men were killed and he escaped almost
coach. Ioday, wandering dazedly about
the streets, Fisher asks mournfulIy "tJou,
qld l escape? Why should they die and
Wife and Baby Escaped.
w D. WATSON of Buffalo was eating at
corner table He was within six
rescuers neared him he smiled encour-
aglngly. Dragged from under the RANCE
OF the scalding steam. he ntrmured
their threeyeara aS b blgT Wis Ills wife and
on the train and escaped injury
charles N Tyson of Buffalo is i'll ar
the Potter hotel here completely IN.
nerved by his experiences. He fac ca.7
death many times dragging from the do
bris the bodies Of friends. He finaIlv col
, I AdASCu the
1t was some time after the WRECK Ind
occurred before word of it reached the
outside world
Aid From Outside Towns.
As soon as one of the uniniured train
men could make his way TO the station
word of the wreck was flashed to railroad
headquarters here and at San Luis Otis-
po. Immediately special trains were q r
ranged for and a corps of physicians and
nurses gathered hurriedly together. were
quickly on their way to the station At
o clock the relief special left this CITY
T 1t made the run to Honda station. sixtv-
/ five miles, in an hour and half Stimuli
I taneously another special left San T,,is
Obispo. also equipped with nurses and
doctors 1t arrived after a run of about
the same distance as the Santa Barbara
train shortly before the one that left this
city. Already the work of rescue had been
completed by those who had escaped the
disaster unhurt
Rows of Bodies.
twenty-five bodies lay in rows on the
sand beside the track. The injured MANY
of them unconscious and dying, were scat
tered about the vicinity on piles of bed
Pulimans. The more fortunate ones were
attempting TO give succor to the suffer
ers- IL was determined at once to re-
move the injured TO San LUIS Obispo and
bring the dead to this city The work of
placing them upon the two trains was
! quickly accomplished Before the enec;sI
bearing the injured had reached san
Luis Obisp0 five more had succumbed to
their terrible wounds. Physicians and
nurses worked over the survivors inces-
sanity. Arriving at its destination the
train was met by scores of ambulances
and automobiles. and the injured were
quickly carried to the two local sanitar-
iums.
The dead were removed in undertakers'
wagons to a morgue.
In the meanwhile the train returning
to this city with its load of dead was
sicctracked a a lonely switch for the pas
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