The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-05-15
81 LIVES LOST
AWFUL WRECK HURLS TRAIN.
LOAD OF SHRlNERS INTO
ETERNITY.
"soNG OF THE OPEN SWITCH
Southern Pacific Passenger Train Max
ing Sixty Miles an Hour Dashes
Into Open Switch and Wrecks.

known dead, with the probability that
the list will be increased still more.
was the result of the wreck of the spe-
cial train crowded with Shriners on
the Southern Pacific railroad, Sunday,
May 18th.
While hurrying northward over the
Coast Line, homeward bound after
week of fraternizins and fiesta in Los
Angeles. las Shriners of Ishmalia Tenn
pie of Buffalo, and Rajah TEN
pie, of Reading, with their families
and friends, were hurled into the
midst of death when their train. run
ming fifty miles an hour, struck de
fective switch at Honda. lonely sta
ton on the sand wastes of the Pacific
beach, derailing the train. smashing the
coaches into flinders, killing thirty-five
almost instantly and injuring more
than a score of others.
The bodies of twenty-five lie in the
morgues of Santa Barbara, and ten
more are at San Luis Obispo. The in
iured many of whom are terribly hurt
and will probably die, are in two SAM
tariums at San Luis Obispo.
List of the Dead.
The dead at Santa Barbara are as
follows:
]. Douglas Nipple, Reading, Pa.
H. X. Gittleman. Reading.
A. l.. Roth. Reading.
C. Gilbert Steffe. Reading.
A. ID. WATSON, Buffalo, n. Y.
j. W. Cutter Binghamton. n. Y.
Charles NJ. Lowing, Pullman con
ductor. Buffalo.
S. A. Bickford, brakeman, San Fran
cisco.
C. w. Austin, New York, agent for
McCann's Tourist Co.. New York.
John Lacey. negro dining car waiter
X. 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.. Drawback. Reading.
Mrs Brumbache.
George F. Hagenman. Reading.
Benjamin Stoltz. Reading.
Mrs. Stoltz.
Miss Stoltz.
Harrison N. Hendel, Reading.
o. F. Kaufman, Reading.
Harry c. Miller, Reading.
The dead at San Luis Obispo are
S. S. Snyder, Reading.
Mrs. s. S. Snyder, Reading.
Richard Essick. Reading.
Thomas J. Punlauch.- Reading.
J.. ~ Ellenbogen, Allentown, Pa.
Mrs. l.. N. Ellenbogen.
Howard Meyer. HaZleton. Pa.
Alonzo B. Rogers, st. Paul. Pullman
conductor.
Unidentified woman probably Mrs
Mary C. Colvins, Reading.
Two unidentified bodies.
The injured at San Luis Obispo arc:
r. Fountain. brakeman, missing las,
night, was taken to San Luis Obispc
to-day. His back is injured and the
lower part of his body paralyzed. He
crawled 100 yards to flag the second
section of the train.
W. II. Boyd of Reading, Pa. badly
scalded
Martin l.. Henry of Shamokin. Ps.
injured spine and severely scalded.
II. r. Lee, Orwigsburg, Pa, face lac
Grated, both hips cut, and fractured
leg.
j. Logan, Buffalo, n. V. les frac
tured and three ribs broken.
II. A. Hartsel, former mayor OF Eaa
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. Binghamton,
N Y, ankle broken.
A. w. Hopple, Dennis Point, u. Y,
severely bruised about neck.
Engineer Champlaine, badly scalded
Fireman Glen Thompson, face, arms
and internal injuries.
Mrs. Hendel and daughter Helen
Reading, Pa. not serious.
j. Calvin Huffedipiz. Reading. Pa,
loft 1pp fractured scalD 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-five minutes after the concla7e
visitors. forming merry party, had
spent all the morning sightseeing IN
Santa Barbara. The statement that
the train was making terrific speed
when it struck the defective track ia
borne out by the fact that it covered
the sixty-onc miles of curves and
crooked track between here and
Honda in exactly one hundred min.
utes.
The special plunged upon the de:cc'
tive switch and in an instant the big
locomotive, baggage car, diner and
Pullman coupled with it were hurled
together in 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
fsh-hooks. The baggage car half bur
led itself in the sand on the right side
of the locomotive. 1t was smashed al
most to llindling 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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