The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-13
So DEAD IN SHRINEUS' WRECK
SOME OF THE FOUNDED BURNED
TO DEATH IN THE DEBRIS.
Five victims Die In heller Train on the way
to Hospital List Of the Dead an l In
Jured From Pennsyi,ania ana New
York State Day OF Grief In Readn .

York State Day OF Grief In Readln
BAN LUIS osIsPo, Cal, May l2.-Late
details Of the wreck Of the Shriners' special
train yesterday show that the dead number
score. The disaster was due TO q detective
switch. which derailed the swiftly running
train, smashing coaches to kindling wood,
killing thirty almost Instantly. and ipjurihg
more than thirty.
Five Of the injured died on the train COM
ing TO this place.
The train was going at high speed and
the big locomotive, baggage car, diner
and Pullman were heaped up in q MACS Of
wreckage.
At the time Of the crash thirty-two men
and women were seated in the diner. This
car was hurled upon the locomotive. sptt
in twain and filled with scaldjng stSarn.
All Its occupants we're killed or badly In
jured. These passengers had left Santa
Barbara less than an hour before. They had
take the train fresh from q trip to the
Old Mission, and happy and keenly hungry
they hurried to the diner. Every seat whs
filed and many stood in the vestibuls bs
tween this car and the next sleeper.
The scenes after the wreck we're fearful.
Several were pinned among the vreekaeO
and were roasted alive rs the vrecknes
! burned.
Mrs. John W. Cutter OF Binghsmton, n.
T., was in the baggage car looking for her
trunk. Her body was driven through ths
floor and the car had TO be lacked up to
release It,.
Mrs. Fred Grumond Of Binghamton was
pinned down under the wreokage but
seized the foot OF a man passing by and
shouted: Il will not let 60 till you get ms
out" Then steam from the engine en-
veioped her and she was ~fearfuliy scalded
before she could be rescued.
The death Of Mrs. Richard Essick of
Reading was pitiable. S. Diebold Of the
Elkoran Temple, Cleveland, delegation had
got a section of airbrake hose and through
it led a stream Of water from a nearby
tank and was playing it. about the two
women pinioned in the burning wreckRge.
He had reached Mrs. Essick and was lust
lifting heEa up when a stream OF scalding
water began squirting from the locomotive,
the rescuers having broken a pipe in their
work. The water poured over the man
and the woman, scalding both OF them.
Others dragged Mrs. Essick from the
debris. but she died a few minutes later.
Dlebold is seriously scalded.
A. d. WATSON Of Buffalo was sitting In a
corner Of the diner near the hot water
tanks. He was so badly scalded that he
died in a few minutes. His wife and three
year old child on the train escaped.
Charles w. Tyson OF Buffalo isfll AT the
Potter Hotel at Santa Barbara as a result
Of his experiences ia resouing the injured.
He risked his life dragging friends from
the burning wreck.
George F.. Hageman, a lawyer OF Reading,
Pa, died thinking Of the welfare of others.
After he had been dra eyed from the debris
he moaned: Look after the women first;
] am dying. Go help them
Five more Of the injured have died hers.
making ten dead in the local morgue
They are:
S. S. Snyder and wife. Reading, Pa; Rich
ard Essick, Reading; J. J. Bunlach, Read
ing; Miss Stolz, Reading; L. N. Ellenbogen.
Allentown: Howard Meyer. Hazleton. Pa;
Alonzo B. Rogers, st, Paul. MINI; an I'M
identified woman.
Among the dead who nave been identified
are:
j. Douglas Nipple, Reading, potentate Of
Rajah Temple; Gilbert V. Steffe, Reading;
Harry F. Kendel, Reading; George j. Hager-
man, Reading; Harry Miller, Reading;
A. l.. Roth, Reading; Oliver Kaufman,
Reading; Charles l.. Henry, Lebanon,
representative to imperial council; Richard
Essick. Reading; Thos j. Brumback Reading;
W. BentonStoltz. Reading; Miss Stoltz, Read
ing; s. S. Snyder, Reading; Louis Ellen.
bogen and Mrs. Ellenbogen, Reading; Henry
G.. Gittleman, Reading; Howard Meyer.
HaZleton; Mrs. 8. s.. Snyder, Reading; Mr..
and Mrs. John Cutler. Binghamton. N. Y;
Charles NJ. Lowing, Pullman conductor.
Buffalo; G. W. Austin, Buffalo, n. Y. tourist
agent. Of Silver Lake, n. Y; F. A. WATSON.
Buffalo.
Among the injured are: W. H. Boyd,
Reading, badly soalded; Martin lie Henry,
Shamokin, Pa. spine injured; j. Logan,
Buffalo. n. Y, leg fractured and three ribs
broken; n. II. Lee, owensburg, Pa. frac-
tured leg; H. A. Hartzel, Easton, Pa. soalded,
lTdCtuTtu Itkt NLdi zoe NlChiuley, DiuB-
hamton. n. Y, back injured; Mrs. Nc
Kinney, B~inghsmton. severely bruised:
Mrs. Fred Gumond. B~ingharnton, ankle
broken; A, W. Rspaele, Bemis Point. Ore.
severely bruised; J, Calvin Hofiedig. Read
ing, Pa, leg fractured.
READING, Pa, May i2.-This was a sorrow
full day in many Reading households after
news came Of the death OF nearly a dozen Of
the excursion party who were on their way
home from Los Angeles with Rajah Tenn
pie, Mobiles Of the Mystic Shrine. Rajah
Temple includes in lie membership promi-
nent men not only In this city but through
out eastern Pennsylvania, and 1t was q
merry party Of ffty-three members and
their friends that left Reading on Sunday.
April 2s, for a trip across the continent.
Letters received from them and published
here indicate the pleasure they were finding
in the trip.
Reports received here differ as to the
number Of dead from this city, some esti-
mates placing IL as high as twelve. The
names OF eight have been received who are
assuredly dead. They are ]. Douglass
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