Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-14
PATHETIC SCENES AT WRECK
Death of Bride and Groom, Each
Sending Message of Love
TO other.

SAN FRANCISCO. May 12-Three trains
bearing shriners arrived yesterday from
the scene Of the wreck. An excursion
train containing twenty-five Shriners which
had been but a few miles behind the
wrecked train. arrived last night The
train was switched around the wreck and
the pr sengers agree in the statement that
it v most deplorable sight they ever
- are Of Cincinnati. who was the
~ physician to reach the scene, arrived
might and told a graphic story OF the
frible scenes that he witnessed. The
most pathetic incident was the death Of a
bride and groom at almost the same in
stant each believing that the other still
lived. l. y Ellenbogen and his bride
were memC 81 the excursion party and
were tb< from the coach on opposite
sides - e track as 1t reeled over on the
greg Both were mortaily injured, but
n ed consciousness and exhibited re-
dkable bravery. The wife's first thought
yas for her husband and the husband s
first thought was for his wife.
Tell my wife that I am all right" muir
mered Ellenbogen to the physician. "Give
her my love and let me know how she is"
Mrs. Ellenbogen in return sent a message
of love to her husband with the assurance
that she was all right Before the ply
stefan could carry another message both
had passed away.
Or. Ware was compelled to use drift
wood for pillows and cut up the sheets on
the train for bandages.
S. z. Thornton, the head Of a large party
Of Shriners from Meridian, Miss, who
came through from Los Angeles on the
second section of the wrecked Shriners'
special. is at a hotel here He is a rail-
road man of many years experience, and
is not satisfied that the disaster was caused
by defective switch
According to his statement, the sleepers
were not badly affected by the wreck and
are largely intact. They were flung in
every direction, one of them ahead Of the
engine. but they did not collapse. The sar
Francisco members Of the Mystic Shrine
consisting OF members of Islam temple
and their wives and daughters who were
in attendance at the conclave of the order
/ in Los Angeles returned here yesterday
and were the first 70 arrive since the fear.
full train wreck at Honda.
The train which carried the Shrineri
doomed TO death in the wreck left Los
Angeles ten minutes after the Islam temple
special. BY some unaccountable working
OF fate the first train. containing the party
that arrived yesterday passed safely, at 6
mile a minute clip. over the very spot a.
which the following train was wrecked.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Cal. May 13-Tht
unknown woman who was fatally injured
in the wreck of the Southern Pacific Shrin
ers' train Saturday at Honda was today
identified as Mrs. E. Kahler OF Reading
Pa
No more deaths have occurred among tn,
injured here.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal. May 18th,
funeral train to carry the bodies of thu
victims of the Honda wreck to their forme
homes in the east will leave Santa Barbar'
or room as the inquest is finished this after
noon.
Between 800 and 800 eastern shrtners ans
their friends will leave here this afternooi
on a special train, one coach Of which vii
be fitted up as a funeral car and win carr
the bodies Of twenty-one dead. The trail
win proceed over the northern route VII
San Francisco. At San Luis Obispo tn
eleven bodies there will be taken on boar
and the Shriners who are in that CITY an
able 20 travel viii also go east on thi
train. The total dead is thirty-two.