The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-05-18
Southern Pacific Passenger Train Man
ing Sixty Miles an Hour Oas"es
Into Open Switch and Wrecks.

HIIS IlllN HllltS an HDuT, STRUCK ~
feCtive switch at Honda, a lonely sta
ton on the sand wastes OF the Pacific
beach, deraiing The train. smashing the
coaches into flinders, killing thirty fvs
almost instantly and injurtng more
than score of others.
The bodies of twenty -fivs lie In tho
morgues of Santa Barbara. and ten
more are at San Luis Obispo. The In
jured, many of whom are terribly hurt
and will probably die. are in two sanL
tariums at San Luis Obispo.
List Of the Dead.
The dead at Santa Barbara are a.
follows:
J. Douglas Nipple. Reading. Pa
II. X. Gittleman, Reading
A. l.. Roth. Reading.
c. Gilbert Steffe Reading.
A. ID. Wasson. Buffalo, N. Y.
J. w. Cutter Bnghamton. n. Y.
Charles NJ. Lowing. Pullman con
ductor. Buffalo.
S. A, Bickford, brakeman, San Fran
cisco
c. W. Austin. New York. agent for
McCanns Tourist Co, New York.
John Lacey, negro dining car waiter.
II. w. Sweeney, negro dining car
waiter.
Mrs. William w. Essick. Reading
Mrs. John w. Cutter, Binghamton.
Mrs. Henry J Fisher, Cleveland.
Miss Cora Young. Cleveland
Charles S. Henry, Lebanon. Pa.
Mr. Bramback, Reading
Mrs. Brumhache
George ? Hagenman. Reading.
Benjamin StotZ, Reading
Mrs Stoltz
Miss Stoltz.
Harrison n Hendel Reading.
o. +. Kaufman, Reading.
Harry G. Miller. Reading.
The dead at San Luis Obispo arel
s. s. Snyder, Reading
Mrs S. S. Snyder. Reading
Richard Essick. Reading.
Thomas J. Punlauch. Reading
J.. N Ellenbogen, Allentown. Pa
Mrs. l.. N Ellenbogen.
Howard Meyer. Hazleton. Pa.
Alonzo b. Rogers, ST. Paul. Pullman
conductor.
Unidentified woman probably MrA
Mary c. Colvins, Reading
Two unidentified bodies
The injured at San Luis Obispo arc,
r. Fountain. brakeman, missing last
night, was taken TO San Luis Obispc
to-day His back is injured and tho
lower part OF his body paralyzed. He
crawled 100 yards 20 flag the second
section Of the train.
W. II. BOYD OF Readlng. "a, badly
scalded
Martin l.. Henry OF Shamokin, Pa,
injured spine and severely scalded
II. X. Lee, Orwigsburg. Pa. face lao
Grated. both hips cut. and fractured
leg
J. Logan, Buffalo. n. Y, leg frao
tured and three ribs broken.
II. A. Hartsel. former mayor OF EaS
ton, Pa, severely scalded and frac-
tured leg
Charles Mckinney. BinghAmton. N
Y, back injured
Mrs. Mckinney, severely bruised
about the body.
Mrs. Fred Grummond B,nghamton.
n, Y, ankle broken
A. w. Hopple. Dennis Point \. y
severely bruised about neck.
Engineer Champlaine, badly scalded
Fireman Glen Thompson. face, arms
and interna3 INJURIES.
Mrs. Hendei and daughter Helen.
Reading, Pa. not serious.
J. Calvin Huffedipiz, Reading, Pa.
left leg fractured. scalp wound
Mrs. Snyder, Reading. Pa. burned
about body and face.
Mr.. Meyer, Hazelton. Pa, burned.
Mrs. Harrison Hendle Reading. Pa,
shoulder dislocated.
Miss Hendle. her daughter, arm
broken.
The wreck occurred one hour and
forty-f1ve minutes after the conclavs
visitors, forming a merry party, had
spent all the morning sightseeing in
Santa Barbara. The statement that
the train was making terrific speed
when 1t struck the defective track 10
borne out by the fact that 1t covered
the si1ty-one miles OF curves and
crooked track between here and
Honda In exactly one hundred min
utes.
The special plunged upon the defeo-
tive switch and in an instant the big
locomotive, baggage car, diner and
Pullman coupled with it were hurled
together in a huge heap OF wreckage.
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 bur
led itself in the sand on the right side
Of the locomotive. 1t was smashed al
most to kindling wood.
The dining car, in which were thirty
two people leaped into the air and was
thrown directly on top of the demol
ished locomotive. Nearly every per
son in this coach was instantly killed
Scores were scalded by steam from dis
connected pipes in the diner.
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