The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-05-16
THIRTY TWO ShRINERS
ARE KILLED IN WRECK
Special Train Carrying Return
ing Delegates Strikes De
fective Switch.
WAS MAKING FAST TIME
Wives and Other Feminine Relatives
Of Homeward Bound Eastern
Shriners Caught in South
ern Pacific Disaster.

Santa Barbara, Cal, May 14.-While
hurrying northward over the q
line Of the Southern Pacific railroad,
last Saturday afternoon, homeward
bound after a week Of ~fraternizing and
fiesta in Los Angeles. l45 Shriners q
temple, OF Reading. Pa, with their fam
lilies and friends. We're hurled into h
midst OF death when their special
train, running fifty miles an hour.
struck q detective switch at Honda, q
lonely station on the sand wastes OF
smashing h coaches into flinders.
killing thirty-two almost instantly and
iujuring more than a score OF others.
The bodies Of twenty-five lie In the
yanrgMes of Santa Barbara and ten.
more at la Luis Obispo. The injured.
will probably die, are In two sanitar-
iums at San Luis Obispo.
Following is a revised list OF the
dead and injured:
Tho Dead at Santa Barbara.
J. DOUGLAS NIPPLE, Reading. Pa
II. K. GITTLEMAN, Reading. Pa.
GILBERT sfEFFE. Heading, Pa.
w. d. WATSON, Buffalo. N. Y.
Wv: CUTLER, ~Binghamton, N. Z.
CHARLES M. LOWING. Pullman con-
G. W. AUSTIN, New York agent for
McCann's Tourist company. New York.
foH II iAGYa HegTo' dining car air,n matter ear
walter.
MRS. w. EssIcK, Reading. Pa.
MRS. j. w. CUTLER, B~inghamton, N.
MRS. HENRY J. FISHER, Cleveland,
MISS CORA YOUNG, Cleveland, 0.
MRS. BRUMBACH, Reading, Pa.
GEORGE N. HAGERMAN, Reading,
Pa.
BENJAMIN sToLTz, Reading, Pa.
HARRISON r. HENDEL, Reading, Pa.
Pa,
HARRY G.. MILLER. Reading. Pa
CHARLES 8. HENRY, Lebanon, Pa.
At San Luis Obispo.
S. S. SNYDER AND WIFE. Reading.
RICHARD ESSICK, Reading, Pa.
MISS 9 2 Re a Pa:
MRS. L. N. ELLENBoGEN. Allentown.
Pa.
HoWARD MoYER, rHazelton, Pa.
ALONIO B. ROGERS. st. Paul, Pull
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, probably
Mrs. Mary 6; Wins, Reading.
cisco.
The Injured at San Luis obispo.
r. Fountain, brakeman; lower part of
w. H. Boyd, of Reading, Pa, badly
ecalded.
Martin L.. Horny, of shamokin. Pa, In
H. r. Lee. Of orwigsburg, Pa, face lac
Grated, both hip cut and fractured leg.
j. Logan, Of Buffalo, N. T., leg frac-
tured and three ribs broken.
H. A. Hartzell, of Easton, Pa, severely
Scalded and fractured leg.
Charles Mckinney, of Binghalnton, N.
Y, back injured.
Mrs. Mckinney, severely bruised about
the body.
Mrs. Fred Grummond. of B~inghamkon,
N. Y, ankle broken.
A. W. Roppole, Dennis Point, N. Y, Sc
verely bruised about neck.
Fireman Glenn Thompson, face, arms
and internal injuries.
Mrs. Hendel and daughter Helen, of
Reading, Pa, not serious.
]. Calvin Heffeditg.. Reading, Pa, left
leg fractured and scalp u
Running at Terrific Speed.
The wreck. occurred exactly at 2:35
o'clock, one hour and forty-fiye minutes
after the conclave visitors, forming q
merry party, had spent all the morning
statement that the train was making
a terrific speed when 1T struck the de-
fective track is borne out by the fact
that it covered the sixty-one miles of
curves and crooked track between here
and Honda in exactly 100 minutes.
Inere was no warning Oh the lmpend-
ing calamity. The special plunged
upon the defective switch and in an in
stant the big locomotive, baggage car,
diner and Pullman coupled with it were
hurled together in a huge heap of
w~reckage. 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 buried itself in the sand on the
right side of the locomotive. 1t was
smashed almost to kindling wood.
The dining car, in which We're thirty
two people eating, leaped into the air
and was thrown directly on top Of the
demolished locomotive. Nearly every
person in the coach was instantly
killed. Scores We're scalded by steam
escaping from disconnected pipes in the
| kitchen of the diner.
Several Roasted Alive.
The terror and turmoil of the scene
was indescribable. Many of those WI
escaped instant death by the first i'm
pact were crushed by the rear coaches
hurled Upon the wreckage. Others.
pinioned in the debris, were roasted
alive. The wreckage caught fire from
the Goals Of the engine, but vas ex-
tinguished in a few minutes by the
passengers who escaped injury.
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