The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-12
More Than a Score Dead
nDisastcron Southern
Pacific Railway.
TWENTY TWO ARE
SERIOUSLY HURT
Most OF Victims Were from,
Reading, and Mere Returning
from Mystic Si,ripc- Evil
dcnec That Wreck
Was Work Of
Nandals.

LOMPoC, CAL..g May ll.--rrobably
n score OF passengers were killed and
us many injured in q wreck this af-
ternoon on the Coast Line OF the
Southern Pacific. five miles south of
with ShrncrH who were on the way
from Los Angeles to their homes in
the East. The train consisted OF six
coaches.
While running at tdgh speed a
wheel on the engine broke and the
locomotive jumped the track and turn
ed over. Four of the front cars OF
the train followed 1t and We're smashed
10 pieces The dead and injured were
thrown in every direction. The train.
caught fire Immediately after the
wreck. but the fire was cMtnguished
by passengers OF the two rear coaches.
who We're uninjurcd. Passengers were
hurled all over the engine and muny
We're burned and scalded to death by
escaping steam. Some of them were
mntilatcd beyond recognition.
The first man to reach Lompoc from
the wreck, few minutes before 9
O'Clock Tonight. said he counted ten
dead, who had been taken from the
Wreckase and laid beside the track
q score or more were terribly injured.
Many others received less serious In
juries
Plunged Into Sand.
Tho wreck occurred on level stretch
OF track near the beach. The roadbed
Is Of sand at this point and the bro
ken cars piowed into It and were half
.issA .
alive. although injured. The engineer
was hurt about the head, and wandered
down the track In a dazed condition
toward Surf,.nvc miles distant. He
had almost reached that place when
orcriaken and carried back to the
scene OF the wreck.
A wrecking train had reached the
spot from Santa Barbara. with a large
number OF physicians and nurses on
board. The injured were given ,nra.
date attention They were placed
with all speed on the train 10 be taken,
either to Santa Barbara or san Luis
Obispo. .
The names of the Shrine Temple
whose members were on board were
not known to the man who brought the
news to Lompoc. He had not stopped
TO get the names OF any dead or in
jured
lWentv-Elght May Die.
san LUIS FOBISPo. CAL. May IT,
At $3.50 o'clock a special train arrived
Z here. bringing two cars Of dead and
wounded from the wreck at Honda
Passengers who accompanied the train
and who We're injured slightly or not
at all. assert that the number OF dea
exceeds twenty-one. and that the total
VIII be In tho neighborhood of twenty
eight. Five OF the injured passengers
died on the way to this place and
others are hurt so severely that death
is but matter OF a few hours
Tho Masons OF this city had organ
lied a relief corps before the ARRIVAL
of the train. and the injured We're hur.
ried to the HOSPITALS and residences,
where preparations had been made for
4 their reception.
Three Cars Demolished.
Trainmen who came from the scene
Of tho wreck say that three cars crowd :
ed with passengers and a dining-car
wcre demolished, together with two or
three baggage cars. Tho latter were
piled onftop OF the locomotive.
According to tho statements OF sur
vivors Shriners from Buffalo and Cleve-
land and Reading, Pa, were the great
est sufferers.
Many Of the dead were scalded SO
that they were unrecosnizable. Tourist
Conductor Austin is reported killed, a
brakeman Is missing, and an engineer
has broken leg.
The Official Report.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL, May IL
The following official dispatch has been
received at Southern Pacific headquar-
@s !,
k&rincrs. derailcd at Honda, sixty-tiNe
miles north OF Santa Barbara, caused
by an obstruction on the track, wreck
ing the engine. bagga gc-cnr, dining
car broken in two three sleencrs de-
rallied; not badly damaged. Will pass
train around wreck at . r. NJ.
Killed 90 far reported:
S. a. WnssOn, Buffalo, Mrs. Fish
or, CIcvclnnh, Miss Young Cleyc-
. land, Charles lowing, ButfmIOi -
Austin, tourist nEcnt;J. w. HiPplc,
Reading, Pa; v, StOtfc, RcadlnE,
I'n., Harry ilcndlc, RcndinE. Pat
!, George Ilngermnn, RcndinE, Pa,
Harry SlOty, Reading; Harry Miller
Reading; ~. Roth. Reading, --------------
Henry. Lebanon, Ohio; y. w, Gutter
md wife, residence not given.
Twenty-Five Injured.
Twenty-two werc severely injured,
eight or ten slightly Some of the Sc
riously injured probably will die,
Special trains from santa Barbara,
1.ompor md san I.,lis Obispo with doc
tors and nurses, have been sent out
Tho most seriously injured were sen
TO San Luis Obspo Hospital,
Some Of the Dead.
Tho most prominent among tho dead
Ehriners is ], Douglas lIipplc. potion
tate Of RaJah Temple, Reading. Pa a
number Of the dead arc from Reading
lat least eight. a man named Henry
from lebanon, o., was killed outright
and Mr.. ana Mrs. ]. w. Cutler, of hing
Jlamton, NJ -, also ARD In the list OF
4 dead. Mrs. Henry ]. Fisher, of Glove
land, was also killed; also Miss Cora
(Conrnued o.. Third PaEe.) III