Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-13
81 MILES IN 100 MINUTES
Train Was Going at Terrific
Speed and a Defective Switch
Caused the Great
Disaster.

Disaster.
/. SANTA BARBARA, Cal, May 13.-Thirty
dead and score injured last night COM
prise the casualties Of the wreck at Honda
Saturday Of the Ismaelia special train Of
New York and Pennsylvania Mobiles Of the
Mystic Shrine who were returning home
from the annual meeting Of the Imperial
Council Of the Ancient Arabic Order Of the
Mobiles Of the Mystic Shrine at Los An
geles.
The train, carrying 145 shriners and
friends from Ismaelia Temple, Buffalo;
Rajah Temple. Reading. Pa, and neighbor-
ing cities, was rushing northward fifty
miles an hour on the South Pacific coast
line when the locomotive struck q defective
switch at the sand-swept seacoast siding of
Honda, near the waters Of the Pacific
ocean, along which the railroad runs for q
hundred miles north Of Santa Barbara.
Turned Somersault.
The locomotive turned somersault into
the yielding sands. The cars swiried 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 extinguished by uninjured persons
from the two rear coaches. AS Honda Is
isolated 1t was not till late today that def
mite information could be collected. The
bodies of twenty-five victims now lie in
Santa Barbara and four more are at San
Luis Obispo. The injured, many Of whom
die. are in two sanatoriums at San Luis
Obispo
The Dead.
AUSTEN, G. H.. Silver Creek, NJ Y,
tourist agent.
AUSTEN. William, Ismailia Temple, Buff
falo.
BRUMBACH, THOMAS J., Rajah Temple,
Reading. Pa.
BRJMBACH, MRS. T. J., wife of Thomas
j.. Rajah Temple. Reading, Pa.
BROUNDBAR, -, Rajah Temple, Read
ing.
CUTLER, JOHN W.. Ismaiiia Temple,
Binghamton, N. Y.
CUTLER, MRS. J. W.. wife of ]. w.
Cutler. Ismailia Temple. Binghamton
ELLANBOGEN, LEWIS ", Allentown.
Pa.
+ ELLANBoGEN, MRS. LEWIS NJ, wife of
Lewis NJ, Allentown.
ESSIC, RICHARD. Rajah Temple, Read
ing.
EssICK. MRS. w. W., Reading.
GITTLEMAN, H. K, Rajah Temple,
HAa1MAN, q. W. F.. R.tah Temple.
HAMMEL. Rajah Temple. Reading.
HENDLE. HARRIS p, Rajah Temple.
HENRY. CHARLES L.. Ra,ah Temple.
HAPPLE, J. DOUGLAS. Potentate. Ra-
IvENs. MRS. MARY, Rajah Temple,
KAUFMAN. OLIVER, Rajah Temple.
: LAcEY. JOHN tnesro). Chicago. dining
LONG. MISS. Al Koran Temple, cieve-
LOWING. CHARLES M. Buffalo. N. T.:
Pullman conductor.
MILLER. HARRY G.. Rajah Temple.
Reading.
ROTH. A. L.. Rajah Temple, Reading.
ROGERS. ALONZo B.. dining car condac-
tor. st. Paul. MINI.
RULER, HARRY, Rajah Temple, Read
SNYDER. STOCKTON. Ra,ah Temple.
SNYDER. MRS. STOCKTON. wife of
Stockton Snyder. Rajah Temple. Reading.
STEFFE, J. GILBERT. Rajah Temple,
sroIz, BENro, Rajah Temple. Read
SroLz. NORA. sister Of Benton stolz,
Ratah Temple. Reading
ing car waiter.
WATSON. A. D., Ismaiiis Temple. Buff
falo.
YOUNG; MISS CORA B.. Al Koran Tenn
Kissing.
Keller, Miss E.. Rajah Temple, Reading.
Pa.
Injured.
Boyd, William H.. Rajah Temple. Read
ing; leg broken and face cut.
Brickford, brakeman; back broken.
Chase, Mrs. Josephine. San Diego, Cal.
Chase, Miss Rosalind, San Diego.
Curtis Dock: leg broken.
Fisher. Henry: badly injured. will recover
Fisher. J. H: slight.
Fisher, Miss. no address: fatally.
Graummund, Mrs. Fred, Binghamton; leg
broken.
Hartzell. H. A.. Easton. Pa; cut over
temples. leg hurt.
face cut.
Hendle. Mrs H. p. Reading; internal
injuries.
Henry, Martin L.. Shamokin. Pa: bruises.
Hoffeditz, j. Calvin. Reading; leg broken,
face cut.
Lee, II. H., Ogdensburg. n. Y; leg brok-
en-. part lip cut out.
Logan. j. W.. Detroit; baggage man; leg
and back hurt.
Nicholson. Mrs, Buffalo: badly injured.
Raffie, A. Bemis Point. Ore; scalp
wounds.
Robinson, Rev. Charles R., Buffalo: slight.
Thompson. Lemuel. fireman: badly hurt.
WATSON, Mrs s. A., Buffalo; nervous
breakdown.
The most prominent among the dead
Shriners Is J. Douglas Nipple, potentate Of
Ratah Temple, Reading. He was con-
spicuous figure at the Los Angeles conclave.
A Merry Party.
The wreck occurred at e:35 O'Clock. an
hour and forty minutes after the conclave
visitors forming merry party. had left
Santa Barbara, where they had spent all
the morning sightseeing. The statement
that the train was making terrific speed
when It struck the defective track is borne
out by the fact that 1t covered the sixty
one miles Of crooked track from Santa
Barbara to Honda In hundred minutes.
The locomotive in leaving the rails tore