Smyrna times., 1907-05-15
S,HRINERS Die
IN TRAIN WRECK
Fhirtv-one Killed in Disaster in
Lower California
SIXTEEN FROM READING, Pa.

Santa Barbara, Cal, May 19. =
Thirty-one dead and a score injured
comprise the casualties of the wreck
at Honda of the Ismaelia special train
of New York and Pennsylvania Mobiles
of the Mystic Shrine. who were return
ine, home from the annual meeting of
the Imperial Council of the Ancient
Arabic Order of the Mobiles of the
Mystic Shrine at Los Angeles.
The train, carrying 145 Shriners and
friends from Ismaelia Temple, Buffalo;
Rajah Temple, Reading, Pa, and
neighboring cities, was rushing north
ward so miles an hour on the South
ern Pacific coast line when the
locomotive struck a defective switch
at the sand-swept seacOast siding of
Honda, near the waters of the Pacific
ocean, along which the railroad runs
for 100 miles north of Santa Barbara.
The locomotive turned a somersault
into the yielding sands. The cars
swirled through the air and landed on
the fiery mass of wrecked steel. The
coaches were crushed to debris and
took fire The flames were soon eX-
tinguished by uninjured persons from
the two rear coaches. The bodies of
26 victims now lie in Santa Barbara,
and rive more are at San Luis ObispO
The injured, many of whom are terri
bly, hurt, and some of whom may die,
are in two sanitaTiums at San Luis
ObispO.
The Dead.
Following is the list of the dead ct
Santa Barbara:
]. Douglass Nipple, potentate Rajah
Temple; H. K. Gittelman, A. L. Roth,
C. Gilbert Steffe, Mr.. and Mrs. S. S.
Snyder. George Hagerman, w. Benton
StOltz. Harrison Hendel. Mrs. William
W. Essick, Miss Nora Stoltz, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Brumbach, all of Real
ing. Pa
Unidentified woman, probably Mrs.
Mary c. Evans, Reading, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. N. EllengOben, AL
lentown, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Cutler, Bing-
hamtOn, n. Y.
Mrs. Henry ]. Fisher and Miss Cora
Young, Cleveland.
Howard Meyer, HazletOn, Pa.
A. D. Wasson, Buffalo.
Charles S. Henry, Lebanon, Pa.
Charles NJ. Lowing, Pullman conduc-
tor. Buffalo.
c. w. Austin, New York. tourist
agent.
The following dead are at San Luis
Obispo:
Richard Essick Oliver F. kaufman
and Henry Miller, all of Reading.
The Injured.
Among the injured at San Luis
ObispO are:
Former Mayor Howard A. Hartzell
Easton, Pa. not serious.
Mrs. Hendel and daughter Helen
Reading, Pa, not serious.
J. Calvin HOffeditz, Reading, Pa
left leg fractured. scalp wound.
Martin Henry, Shamokin, Pa.
scalded.
William Boyd, Reading, Pa, seri
ously scalded
Mrs. Fred Greenwood, BinghamtOn
n. Y, leg broken.
vars OtudSuCQ 70 FlGCGSs
The wreck occurred an hour and 4
minutes after the conclave visitors
forming a merry party, had left SAINT
Barbara, where they had spent all tn
morning sightseeing. The locomotive il
leaving the rails tore up the track
twisting the huge steel rails into isl
hooks. The baggage car half brute,
itself in the sand on the right side 0
the locomotive. 1t was smashed almOs
into kindling wood
The dining car, in which were 81 per
sons eating luncheon leaped into tn
air and fell directly on the demoI
ished locomotive. Nearly every per
son in the dining car was Instant,
killed. Scores were scalded by stean
escaping from disconnected pipes. TIL
rear coaches rushed on the first wreck
age, jamming it on those who mieh
otherwise have escaped. Several, D n
Toned in the debris, were roaste
alive.
last call for luncheon had jus
suOnded only few minutes before tn
disaster
Raiah Temple, of Reading, Pa, oc
cupied the last car on the train. an
Rajah Shriners w4-. t.. last ones Z
go forward TO the dining car. Tn
car was thus filled almost entireI
with Reading people when the wrec
occurred.
An instant after the smash the in
jured jumped from the train to rende
aid, but they were unable to do mic
besides extinguish the fire, and the
had to await long hours before relic
arrived.
Frightened women, peering throug
the windows of the undamaged sleer
ing cars, tainted when they saw tn
bodies Of their friends strewn aIon
the roadside, blood from the wound
staining the sand drifts all about. Me
who toiled hard at the task or rescu
collapsed.
Woman's Body Driven Thro,to, Etoo