Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-05-16
A Score More Injured in Crash of
Special Train Bearing Them
Homeward.
STRUCK DEFECTIVE SWITCH,
Locomotive Turned SOmcrsault and
Cars piled TOP of It--Coaches Took
Fire but Passengers Extin-
guishcd DIazc-somc Were
Roasted.

prise the casualties due to the wreck at
Honda yesterday of the Ismalia special
train of New York ana Pennsylvania
mobiles Of the Mystic Shrine, who wcre
returning homo from tho annual meet
ing of the Imperial Council OF the No
| blcs of the Mystic Shrincrs al Los An-
geles. The train carrying 145 Shriners
and friends from 1smalia Temple, Buff
falo Rajah Temple, Reading Pa. and
neighboring cities, was running north
at 30 miles an hour on the Southern
Pacific coast line, when the locomtive
struck a defective switch at the sand
swept siding at Honda near the Paci-
fC ocean. along which the railroad runs
| for n hundred miles north Of Santa Bar
bara The locomotive turned
somorsault into the sands. The cars
| landed on the wrecked locomotive and
! the coaches were crushed and took fire.
The flames were soon extinEuished by
unlniurcd passengers on the two rear
coaches.
| As Honda IS isloatod II was not till
| late to-day that definite information of
the wreck could be obtained. The bod
! les of % victims are now at Santa Bar
hara and four moro are At san Luis
Obspo. The injured. many of whom
are terribly hurt and some of whom
may die. arc in two sanitariums at San
| Luis Obispo.
The wreck occurred at 2:3j O'Clock m
| hour and 80 minutes after the conclaVe's
visitors forming n merry party, left Santa
| barbara. They had epen' all the morning
| Sightseeing That the train was making
terrific speed whom 1t struck the defective
track IS borne out by the fact that it
covered the 81 miles Of crooked track
from Santa Barbara to Honda in 100
minutes.
The locomotive In leaving the rails tore
mp the track badly twisting thc steel rails
| The baggage car half buried itself In the
sand beside the locomotive. 1t was
smashed almost to kindling wood. The din
ing. car in which were 30 persons eating
luncheon bounded into the air and fell
directly on the demolished locomotive.
Nearly every person in the dining car
was instantly killed Scores We're scaldcd
by steam and escaping from disconnected
pipes The rear coaches were hurled into
the wreckaSe killing or iniuring those
who might otherwise have escaped.
Several persons pinioned in the debris,
were roasted alive
Engineer Frank Champlain was pitched
with the cab % feet beyond the engine.
10 GO, I'm and ran q mile seeking holm
Lo,o-, ro dtsoovorad that hts arm, wa :
brol,.r aud that NE was severely scaIded
op,,. w, ~ tho nine mon COMPRISING
tho dining ear crew are dead The re-
uo',dor though coo,ed M in the narrow
kit7hrp AND n7,,tr,. suffered ONLY cuts ard
br,,isae Tho last call for luncheon had
haor cal1ad I'M. n few minutes before tho
Idis,s.er Bsi7h Tcrlplo Of Reading. Pa.
Ibad the last chr on the train and its mem
lhers were the last ores to go forward 10
fine dining car Thus the car was file
almost entirely with Reading people when
,ha yracI5 occurred
.-.
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An instant after the disaster those VIII
were not incapacitatcd jumped from the
train to render aid. but they were unable
to do much beside extngush the fire, and
they had to wait long hours before relief
arrived Frightened women, peer.ne
through the windows OF the unchanged
slecners failed when they saw the bodies
Of their friends. strewn along the road
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