Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-05-16
:ore her body could be released.

Mrs. Fred Grummond of Bingham.
ton was with Mrs. Cutler and also
went under the tons of baggage and
broken wood and iron, but an arch of
trunks saved her from death. When
rescuers burrowed their way to where
the two women lay, Mrs. Grummcnd
grasped the foot of one of the men
and shouted:
'"I'll not let go until you get me out"
was terribly scalded. She was res.
cued, however, and was among those
taken to San Luis Obispo.
When Miss Cora Young of Cleveland
was taken from the shattered dining
car, she was still alive but frightfully
injured. Her entire body had been
showered with boiling water.
A Model of Unselfish chivalry.
George Hagenman of Reading re-
fused the aid of his brother mobiles aft
er they had dragged him, fatally hurt
from the wreck
"I am dying" he said, "go help the
women"
Sander Deabold of Cleveland worked
heroically but unavailing to save the
lives of two women pinioned beneath
the burning dining car. Burrowing
his way down into the smouldering
splintered wreck, Deabold, with a hose
which he had wrenched from a coach
connection, poured water from an ad-
jacent tank on the debris and extin-
guished the flames. Then he cut
away the broken timbers that held her
fast and took Mrs. William w. Essick
of Reading from the ruins.
She was begging piteously for relief
when he reached her. AS he lifted her
from the, wreckage a stream of boil
Ing water spurted over her. Women
passengers sought to remove her up
per garments but tainted when the
flesh came off with the clothing Mrs.
EsSick expired a few minutes later.
Deabold was unable longer to endure
the narrowing sight
Two Women Killed In Baggage Car.
Henry J. Fisher of Cleveland went
with his wife and her daughter, Miss
Soi a lOuIS, W tllt DdSSdSC tCil just
before the wreck. The two women
were killed and he escaped almost un-
harmed from the wreck of the baggage
car, being hurled through the roof to
the yielding sands of the beach He
wandered dazedly about the streets
Sunday, asking rhournfully: How did
] escape? Why should they die and
I live?"
A. D. Wasson of Buffalo was eating
at corner table. within six inches of
hot water tanks. When his rescuers
neared him he yelled encouragingly.
Dragged from the range of the scalding
stream, he murmured "Thank God"
and died His wife and baby were
with him and they escaped injnry.
G. M. Tyson of Buffalo is i'll at Pot
ter hotel, unnerved by his experiences.
He faced death many times while drag
ging from the debris the bodies of
friends. He finally collapsed under
the strain.
1t was sometime after the wreck oc-
CURED before a word of it reached the
outside world. AS soon as one of the
uninjured trainmen could make his
way to the station, word of the wreck
was telegraphed to San Luis Obispo.
Immediately special trains were ar
ranged. Physicians and nurses, gath
cred hurriedly, were quickly on the
way to the wreck.
At 4 o'clock a relief special left
Santa Barbara and made the 61 miles
to Honda in 90 minutes. Simultan-
eously another special left San Luis
Obispo occupied with nurses and doc
tors. 1t arrived shortly before the
one that left this city. But what
work of rescue was possible had been
done by those who had escaped the
disaster
Twenty-Five bodies lay on the sand
besides the track. The injured, many
of them unconscious and dying, were
scattered about on piles of bedding and
plush seats brought from the Pull
mans.
1t was determined at once to re-
move the injured to San Luis Obispo
and to take the dead to Santa Barbara
The work of placing them upon the
two trains was quickly accomplished.
Before the special bearing the in
jured had reached San Luis Obispo
four persons more had succumbed to
their wounds. Physicians and nurses
worked over the survivors incessant-
ly. Arriving at it's destination, the
train was met by a score of ambul
ances and automobiles and the injured
were quickly carried to sanitariums.
In the meantime the train return
ing to Santa Barbara with it's dead
was side-tracked at a lonely switch
for the passage of other trains. Far
out on the sandy desert, miles from
any habitation or from any wire com
munication with the outside world, the
special waited for two hours while
train after train of shriners bound
from Los Angeles to their Eastern
homes swept by to the north.