Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-14
FUNERAL TRAIN
GOES EAST TODAY
CARRIES BODIES OF WRECK
VICTIMS
Verdicts Returned by coroners' Juries
Do Not Aeree-Passensers Who
Escaped Death Discuss Ter-
rlbIe Accident
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which inquired into the wreck horror
of Saturday at Honda. This releases
the bodies of the Reading, Buffalo
Binghamton and Cleveland victims, and
tomorrow morning at o'clock the
funeral train bearing the twenty-one
dead and all the Rajah temple party
will leave.
Ismailia temple of Buffalo will leave
at noon, their car attached to regular
train, and with the exception of the
stop at Sacramento will follow the itin-
erary which calls for visits to various
cities between here and Chicago. Wide
ly divergent opinions greeted the in
quest verdict tonight. Many Shriners
declared that with the testimony given
and the exhibit of the broken switch
point the finding of the jury should
have held the Southern Pacific respon-
sible. Others thought it fair. William
d. Doherty, police commissioner OF
Buffalo, said the verdict should have
been one of criminal negligence.
1t was reported from the rooms of
Capt. William G.. Waters, the jury fore
man, where the deliberations were held,
that several jurors were in favor of
this. The jury then took recess and
called on the wreck survivors for more
Information. j. H. Prescott and ]. H.
jury. Prescott showed the broken rail
point and said from his examination of
the switch he believed the switch was
partly open.
Hard to Fix Blame
Ellwood, who is railroad man and
chairman of the Buffalo chamber of
commerce. said he could not tell how
the wheel flanges of the fated train took
the switch.
mo man on Gods earth," he said,
'Scould tell the cause of that awful dis
aster." He asserted a train had just
gone over the same spot not ten min
utes before.
"Another might have run over it in
safety directly after. There might
have been a hanging chain on one of
the coaches ahead. 1t was going sixty
miles an hour, and the dangling links
might have broken the switch point.
The draw was set and the target right,
he concluded.
'The verdict was what we expected,
but hoped might be different" said
Mr.. Doherty.
Several of the women are i'll from
the experience in the crash and it
was partly at the request of all that
the start of the solemn journey of the
funeral train should be delayed. Lloyd
l.. Westbrook. potentate of the Isma-
liz temple. said:
Start Journey Today
"There is a general feeling among
our people against starting on such a
journey in the e"ening. The shock has
been so great that many of us are un-
nerved and our overwrought condition
would only be increased by being
plunged at once into night with our
fu1 h1Irdnn TTnHar those nir-
cumstances we have thought it better
to start early in the morning. when we
shall have an opportunity during the
day to accustom ourselves to a trying
situation"
Mrs. James w. Nicholson of Buff
falo, N. Y, who was reported among
the fatally injured, is among those
here and will recover. She, with Mrs.
Thatcher and Mrs. A. D. Wasson, is
i'll, but will be able to travel. None of
the injured in San Luis Obispo is in
serious danger excepting A. NJ. Leehe |
Of Easton, Pa, who is badly injured. |
Ismailia temple will stop long enough
on the way up to take some of the in |
tired, and the Reading funeral train
will bear away the dead. ]. NJ. Logan, |
the through baggageman for Ismailia, |
is suffering a double fracture of the |
leg. 1t will be six weeks before he is
able to go home.
"A like time will elapse before Mrs. |
Grummond, the wealthy Binghamton
widow will be out of the hospital. She
was with the Cutters and she was
saved because the baby of Mrs. Cutler
was a cushion between her and the |
crushing weight of tons of wreckage |
from the shattered baggage car.
The women of the Iuckless Shriner
party have even more to tell than the |
afrf
the men of the horrible catastrophe |
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis N. Ellenbogen of
Allentown, Pa, were bride and BRIDE
groom on their honeymoon and they
died in San Luis, after doing all in !
their power to console and reassure
each other that neither was badly |
hurt.
Mrs Cutler was killed on her birth
day. "In the next section to ours
said Mrs. Norman B. Allen of Buffalo, |
there was group composed of DIR. |
Thatcher and Mrs Thatcher of Newark, |
N. j., and Mr.. and Mrs. Cutler. Just
the day before the wreck in Los An
geles, Mrs. Cutler said she wanted the |
next day to be sunshiny and bright |
"It will be my birthday" she said. |
"Mr. Cutler laughingly handed her 2 |
cents and aemove was made to take up |
a collection, which in pennies and |
nickels soon reached a proportion that |
made the donors think of putting it |
into something.
"They accordingly bought hand
some Navajo blanket and Mrs. Cutler
was delighted. She paraded UP and |
down the car with the blanket around |
her shoulders, thanking everyone and
everyone was as pleased as she.
''She and Mr.. Cutler were so devoted
to each other that we joked them about
If for we 1lsed tO saw that thaxr oo,,Id |