Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-05-14
HONDA w RECK
! OF SHRINERS' SPECIAL
SCORE ES
Smashup on S. P. Coast Line
in California Grinds Out
Lives Of Thirty Pass
engers

San Barbara, Cal, May 13.-Be-
tween two hundred and three hun
dred eastern shriners and friends
will leave here for the east this
afternoon on a special train, one
coach Of which will carry the
bodies Of the twentyone dead. At
San Luis Obispo eleven bodies
K there will be taken on board.
Santa Barbara. Cal, May 13.-Be-
fore it piled itself up on defective
switch at Honda Saturday evening,
blotting out the lives of twenty-nine
persons. the Southern Pacific Coast
Liner flyer had succeeded in covering
more than sixty miles of fearsomely
crooked track in less tnan 100 min
utes.
That was dangerously high speed
travelling on this track, according to
a witness at the inquest, stated here
yesterday, and the disaster in which
1t ended had been speculated on by
the more nervous passengers long be-
fore the crowded cars crumpled up.
The inquest will be continued and
1t belongs. John H. Prescott of Buff
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wreck uninjured, produced at the in
quest the point Of a switch rail broken
of by the train. He expressed the
opinion that this caused the wreck.
Prescott said the train was tearing
along the level waste of sand at it's
highest speed and that when it struck
the rail it doubled up, and what was
left of the engine and leading cars was
nalf buried in the sand.
145 Shriners on the Train.
This morning when the dead at San
Luis Obispo and in the morgues here
were counted the number totaled up to
twenty-nine, eight more than were re-
ported killed in the confusion Saturday
night. OF the injured, seventeen are
in hospitals at San Luis Obispo, and
of these some are hurt SO badly that
their lives are despaired Of.
Tho wrecked train was one of a
string of specials carrying delegates
to the supreme council of the order
of the Mystic Shrine northward and
homeward from Los Angeles, where
the conpentfon had been held. On
board the wrecked special we're 145
Shriners Of Ismailic temple, Buffalo, N.
Y. and Rajah temple, Reading. Pa.
with the. exception of five all the dead
were delegate Shriners or members OF
their families and with a few excep-
tions SO are all the injured,
Following is a complete list of the
dead:
r he Dead.
AUSTIN, G. W., New York, agent
for McCannis Tourist company.
BRUMBACH, MRS, Reading. Pa.
ESSICK, RICHARD. Reading, Pa.
ESSICK, MRS. VIM W., Reading.
Pa
GITTLEMAN, H. K. Reading, Pa.
Rajah Temple.
CUTLER, j. W., Binghamton, N. Y.
Ishmailia temple, Buffalo, N. Y.
CUTLER, MRS. j. W., Binghamton
N. x, accompanied her husband to
Los. Angeles convention.
FISHER, MRS, Cleveland, o., wife
of Henry ]. Fisher, druggist.
HAGERMAN, GEORGE, Reading
Pa, Rajah temple.
ELLENBORGEN, L. NJ, Reading
Pa, Rajah temple
ELLENBORGEN, MRS. L. N.
Reading, Pa.
HENDEL HARRISON r., Reading
Pa, Rajah temple.
HENRY, ---, Lebanon, Pa.
HIPPLE, J. O.. Reading. Pa. illustri-
GUS potentate of Rajah temple.
KAUFMAN. OLIVER, Reading,
Pa, Rajah temple.
LOWING CHARLES. Buffalo, N. Y,
Ishmailia.
MILLER. HARRY, Reading, Pa.
Rajah Temple.
ROTH. A. L., Reading, Pa, Rajah
temple.
MoYER, HOWARD, Hazelton, Pa,
, PRUNBAUCH, THOMAS l., Read
ing, Pa.
ROGERS, tALoNzo B.. st. Paul.
MINI. Pullman commander.
SNYDER. 8. S., Reading, Pa.
SNYDER. MRS. S. S., Reading, Pa.
Rajah temple.