The Glenwood post., 1907-05-18
81 lives LOST
AWFUL WRECK HURLs TRAIN
LOAD OF SHRlNERS INTO
ETERNITY.
"soNG OF THE OPEN SWITCH"
Southern Pacific Passenger Train Max
ing Sixty Miles an Hour Dashes
Into Open Switch and Wrecks.

clal train crowded WIN SnrlnerS Oh
the Southern Pacific railroad, Sunday.
May 18th.
While hurrying northward over the
Coast Line. homeward bound after
week of fraternizing and fiesta in Los
Angeles, 145 Shriners of Ishmalia Tenn
pie of Buffalo, and Rajah Tenn
pie, of Reading, with their families
and friends, were hurled into the
midst of death when their train, rum
ming fifty miles an hour, struck de-
fective switch at Honda, a lonely sta
tion on the sand wastes of the Pacific
beach. derailing the train, smashing the Z,
coaches into flinders, killing thirty-five ;,
almost instantly and injuring more
than a score of others.
The bodies of twenty-five lie in the
morgues of Santa Barbara and ten
more are at San Luis Obispo. The in
jured, many of whom are terribly hurt
and will probably die, are in two sani-
tariums at San Luis Obispo.
List of the Dead.
The dead at Santa Barbara are as
follows:
J. Douglas Nipple, Reading. Pa.
H. X. Gittleman. Reading.
A. l.. Roth. Reading
c. Gilbert Steffe, Reading.
A. d. Wasson, Buffalo, N. Y.
J. w. Cutter, Binghamton, n. Y.
Charles NJ. Lowing, Pullman con
ductor. Buffalo.
S. A. Bickford, brakeman San Fran
cisco.
C. W. Austin New York, agent for
McCann's Tourist Co.. New York.
John Lacey, negro dining car waiter.
r. W. Sweeney, negro dining car
waiter
Mrs. William w. Essick, Reading.
Mrs. John W. Cutter, Binghamton.
Mrs. Henry j. Fisher, Cleveland.
Miss Cora Young. Cleveland.
Charles S. Henry. Lebanon, Pa.
Mr.. Bramback. Reading.
Mrs. Brumbache.
George F. Hagenman. Reading.
benjamin Stoltz, Reading.
Mrs. Stoltz.
Miss Stoltz.
Harrison n. Hendel. Reading.
D. F. Kaufman, Reading.
Harry C. Miller, Reading.
The dead at San Luis Obispo are:
S. S. Snyder, Reading.
Mrs. S. S. Snyder, Reading.
Richard Essick, Reading.
Thomas J. Punlauch, Reading.
L. n. Ellenbogen, Allentown. Pa.
Mrs. l.. N. Ellenbogen.
Howard Meyer, Hazleton, Pa. q
Alonzo B. Rogers, St. Paul, Pullman
conductor.
Unidentified woman probably Mrs.
Mary c. Colvins, Reading.
Two unidentified bodies.
The injured at San Luis Obispo are:
r. Fountain, brakeman, missing last
night was taken to San Luis Obispo
today His back is injured and the
1nu-ar ri Of hic hnly nar Ivyn6
crawled 100 yards to flag the second
section of the train.
w. H. Boyd of Reading, Pa, badly
scalded.
Martin l.. Henry of Shamokin, Pa.
injured spine and severely scalded
II. r. Lee, Orwigsburg, Pa, face lac
Grated, both hips cut, and fractured
leg.
j. Logan Buffalo, N. Y, leg frac-
tured and three ribs broken.
H. A. Hartsel, former mayor of Eas-
ton. Pa. severely scalded and frac-
tured leg.
Charles Mckinney, Binghamton. N
Y, back injured.
Mrs. Mckinney, severely bruised
about the body.
Mrs. Fred Grummond, Binghamton.
n. Y, ankle broken
-. w. I1oDDlt, bellHlS TOlul, ~.
severely bruised about neck
Engineer Champlaine, badly scalded.
Fireman Glen Thompson, face, arms
and internal injuries.
Mrs. Hendel and daughter Helen,
Reading, Pa, not serious.
j. Calvin Huffedipiz, Reading, Pa,
left leg fractured, scalp wound
Mrs. Snyder Reading, Pa, burned
about body and face. Z
Mr.. Meyer. hazelton, Pa, burned IL
Mrs. Harrison Hendle Reading Pal
shoulder dislocated. -
Miss Hendle, her daughter. ARM
broken.
The wreck occurred one hour and
forty-tIye minutes after the conclave
visitors, forming a merry party, had
spent all the morning sightseeing In
Santa Barbara. The statement that
the train was making terrific speed
when 1t struck the defective track is
borne out by the fact that 1t covered
the sixty-one miles of curves and
crooked track between here and
Honda in exactly one hundred min
utes.
The special plunged upon the defec-
tive switch and in an instant the Dig
locomotive, baggage car, diner and
Pullman coupled with it were hurled
together in a huge heap OF wreckage.
The engine shot forward on the broken
track, tearing up the rails and ties
and twisting the huge iron spans into
fish-hooks. The baggage car half bur
led itself in the sand on the right side
of the locomotive. 1t was smashed al
most to kindling wood.
The dining car, in which were thirty
two people. leaped into the air and was
. ~, ii t~r, st tha I0,,,
ished locomotive. Nearly every per-
son in this coach was instantly killed.
Scores were scalded by steam from dis
connected pipes in the diner.
More Money In Dirt.
Boulder, Colo.-Dr. Sanford Bell,