The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-05-16

A I. ROTH, Reading, Pa.
GILBERT sTEFFE. Reading, Pa
w. D. WAssoN, Buffalo N.
]. w. CUTLER, Binghamton, N. Y.
CHARLES M. LOWING, Pullman con-
ductor, Buffalo, N. Y: .u
G. w. AUSTIN, New York agent for
'JoHN LACY, negro, dining car waiter.
r. w. SWEENEY, negro dining car
waiter.
MRS. HENRY J. FISHER, Cleveland.
MISS CORA YOUNG, Cleveland, o.
MRS. BRUMBACH, Reading, Pa.
GEORGE N. HAGERMAN, Reading,
BENJAMIN sToLTz. Reading. Pa. p,
OLIVER F. KAUFFMANN. Reading,
HARRY G. MILLER. Reading, Pa;
CHARLES s. HENRY, Lebanon, Pa
At San Luis obispo.
8 8. SNYDER AND WIFE, Reading,
RICHARD EssIcK, Reading, Pa.
THOMAS ]. PRUNLACH, Reading, Pa
MISS sTqLTZ, Bead Beading, gSuaS;owr Pa pa
MRS, L. N. ELLENBoGEN, Allentown
HOWARD MoYER, Hazelton. Pa.
ALoNzo B. ROGERS, st. Paul Pull
i'iIH TNfDENTiFIED IDENTIFIED WOMAN, probably
Mrs Mary c. WINS, Reading.
A. 8. BfCKFoRD brakeman, San Fran
| cisco.
The Injured at San Luis obispo.
r. Fountain, brakeman; lower part OF
w W. H II. Boyd. Of Reading. Pa. badly
scalded. l.,
jured spine and severely scalded.
| III. r. Lee, of Orwigsburg. Pa, face lac
Grated, both hips cut and fractured leg.
| ]. Logan, of Buffalo, N. T. leg trac'
H. A. Hartzell, Of Easton, Pa severely
scalded and fractured leg. ~
Charles Mckinney, Of Binghamton' N
Mrs. Mckinney, severely bruised about
Mrs. Fred Grummond, OF Binghamton
n Y, ankle broken.
| A. w. Roppole, Bennis Point, N. Y, Sc
| verely bruised about neck.
| Engineer Champlain, badly scalded.
Fireman Glenn Thompson, face, arm:
| Mrs Hendel and daughter Helen, o
Reading, Pa, not serious. -
j. Calvin Hoffeditg,, Reading, Pa lef
leg fractured and scalp wound.
Running at Terrific Speed.
The wreck occurred exactly at 2:3S
o'clock, one hour and forty-five minutes
after the conclave visitors, forming &
merry party, had spent all the morning
| sichtseeing in Santa Barbara. Th
| statement that the train was making
q terrific speed when 1t struck the de
fective track Is borne out by the FAC
that it covered the sixty-one miles o.
curves and crooked track between her'
and Honda in exactly 100 minutes.
There was no warning OF the impend
ing calamity. The special plunged
upon the defective switch and in an in
slant the big locomotive, baggage car
diner and Pullman coupled with 1t wer
hurled together in a huge heap
wreckage. The engine shot forward o.
the broken track, tearing up the rail
and ties and twisting the huge irol
spans into fish hooks. The baggage ca
half buried itself in the sand on tn
!. | right side of the locomotive. 1t wa
smashed almost to kindling wood.
The dining car, in which were thirty
two people eating, leaped into the al
and was thrown directly on top of tn
! demolished locomotive. Nearly ever
person in the coach was Instant
killed. Scores were scalded by steaI
| escaping from disconnected pipes In tn
kitchen Of the diner
Several Roasted Alive.
The terror and turmoil Of the seen
| was indcscribable. Many Of those wh
escaped instant death by the first in
pact were crushed by the rear coache
, | hurled upon the WTeChdBe. Olner
: pinioned in the debris. were roaste
!. alive. The wreckage caught fire frol
the Goals of the engine, but was e1
, tinguished in few minutes by tt
passengers who escaped injury.
Engineer Frank Champlain we
pitched with his cab twenty-five fe.
beyond the engine and got up and ra
three-quarters of a mile seeking he
before he discovered that his arm we
broken and that he was severely seal,
ed. A man standing behind his wi
In the baggage car was hurled throue
huge rent in the roof and alightt
in soft and yielding sand almost u
: injured. The woman was force
l through the floors and wreckers had
1 lift tons of baggage to get her out.
: Rajah temple, of Reading, occupi
: the last car on the train and it's men
l. bers were the last ones to go forwa
2 to the diner. The car was filled a
most entirely with Reading peor