Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-12
MOBILES CONDEMN
SILENT POLICY
RAILROAD TRIES TO SUPPRESS
FACTS
shrlners Left to Worry About Friends
In Wreck Until Information
Leaks Through Outside
Sources
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hut it appeared that for once all the
horrible details had not been told. We
are helpless here. We can do nothing
for those who are suffering, and the
suspense is terrible.
II am so shocked that / cannot talk, "
said Joe Sensheimer, potentate from
Galveston, Texas. people cannot
realize what this means to us. We are
SO close together in the shrine that this
tragedy goes home to every one of us.
The shock Is terrible.
.'I cannot say enough in condemna-
ton of the railway company for the
silence they are preserving. 1t is ter
rible enough to have such a thing hap
pen, but 1t Is even more horrible to
think that all these people here should
be kept in suspense. The waiting Is
harder than the knowing.
1.-THE railroad does the people great
enough harm through carelessness and
other causes without doing US this
HARM 1t should be their effort to give
us all the help they can in helping these
people to find out whether their friends
or relatives are in the wreck"
''This is a tragedy which goes home
to everyone of u.s." said Ben Calkins.
potentate of Algeria temple. None of
the Montana men are on the train, but
there are men on there who are friends
to all of u.s. and even If we had no
friends we could not help deploring the
sorrow which it will bring to so many
homes"
Reading Shriners Suffer
Readings merry Shriners suffered
dreadful carnage in the wreck at Hon.
do. Early in the day they departed for
the north, grateful to Los Angeles for
her hospitality, and as the train rolled
out Shriners on the car steps waved
back their hands and handkerchiefs as
a sign of acknowledgment of kind
wishes.
Then came the crash which sent many
of them into eternity, others into the
hospitals and their thousands OF fellow
Shriners into deep grief.
Pennsylvania lost some of her most
noted Shriners in the calamity by the
ocean side.
J. Douglass Ripple, potentate of
Rajah, who was killed, has been for
five years a representative in the inn
perial council and had been potentate
equally long.
Charles L. Henry, another of the four
representatives who was also crushed
to death, lived in Labanon. near Read
ing.
Gilbert V. steffey, one of the three
thirty third degree Masons in the city,
was past 10 years and widely known in
America and Europe as railroad me-
chanical expert.
Harry P. Hendel had his wife and
daughter with him when in the twin
king of an eye he met death.
George Hageman, son or FORMER
Judge, was one of the leading lights OF
the Berks county bar.
Harry Miller, formerly OF Lebanon,
was a prominent grocery merchant.
A. l.. Roth was an old lime dealer and
only recently had taken to himself his
second wife.
oliver Kaufman conducted a large
music house in Reading.
Rajah Members on Train
Los Angeles advices are that the fol-
lowing Rajah members were aboard the
train:
Representative Martin L. Henry,
Shamokin, married.
Representative Louis N. Ellenbogen,
Allentown, with his wife.
Mrs E. Kahler, widow.
Former mayor of Easton, E. H. Hart
zeI. who has a brother near Los An
geles.
Harry P. Hendel, wife and daughter.
w. Benton StoltZ and sister, Miss
Stoltz. Mr.. Stoltz is supposed to have
been killed, but the name as transmit
ted is not his.
r. Essick and wife.
City Treasurer Walter M. Tyson and
wife.
]. Fred Mertz and wife.
Walter S. Essick, member board of
works; widower.
The following men aboard train lett
their wives at home east: Henry u.
Gittleman, Andrew ]. Livingood, H. S.
Mayer, Thomas ]. Brumbach, j. Calvin
HoffdietZ, A. H. Hodson, Herbert H.
Lee, A. L. Roth, who recently married.
The following unmarried men were
aboard the train: c. E. Jones, Harry G.
Miller Charles D. Andrews, George j.
Hageman, William H. Boyd, Edward
C. Kern, A. A. Read, Stockton Snyder,
j. C. A. Ball and D. F. Wagner
These Reading Shriners are safe:
c.. H. Sembower, wife and daughter
left for San Francisco the day before.
Assistant Engineer Paul B. Davis, Dr.
Horace e. Schlemm and Harvey Fuller
remained in Los Angeles. George G.
Bowman, registered from 313 Pasadena
avenue, may have gone with the party,
but his departure was not recorded.
Early Morning Special
When the Los Angeles holdovers from
Reading learned of the accident they
at once took steps to get into COM
munication with the wounded survi-
vors. DIR. Horace f. Schlemm, who
was here with Paul b, Davis, assistant
city engineer, tried to get aboard a
train or engage an automobile to get
to Santa Barbara, but friends prevailed
on them to wait positive advices. At
midnight these two men made arrange
ments to go north with a special before
daylight this morning.
"This seems like a bad dream, for only
a few hours ago we left our brothers
happy and regretting to leave your
beautiful city" said DR.. Schlemm.
"Potentate Ripple was popular in all
Masonic circles" said Engineer Davis.
.'He was about As years old, had a wife
and child at home. With his brother
he conducted furniture and uphol-
stery making establishment.
"Mr Steffey was a veteran employe
of the Philadelphia & Reading line.
He was often sent abroad on mechani-
cal work. His wife died about year
ago.
"Mr Hageman was bachelor, about
40 years old, who had large practice
as an attorney.
"Mr. Miller was with H. G.. Miller &
Sons. He had been in Reading for
twelve years and before was in Leban-
on.
''Mr. Roth leaves a young wife and
a son and daughter by his first mar
riage He was about So years old.
"Mr. Kaufman was an old resident,