Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-13
THIRTY ARE DEAD
IN TRAIN WRECK
Score More Were Badly Injured in the
Accident Near Honda, Cal.


help before he discovered that his arm
was broken and that he was severely
scalded. 4 man standing behind his wife
In the baggage car was injured.
Only two Of the nine men Of the dining
room crew are numbered among the dead.
The remainder, though cooped up in the
narrow kitchen and pantry. sustained only
cuts and bruises
Their Last Call for Meals.
"A last call for luncheon had just sounded
few minutes before the disaster.
Rajah Temple Of Reading, Pa, occupied
the last car on the train and Rajah
Shriners were the last ones to 60 forward
to the dining car. The car was thus flied
almost entirely with Reading people when
the wreck occurred.
An Instant after the smash the uninjured
Jumped from the train to render aid, but
they were unable to do much besides ex-
tinsuishins the fire. and they had to await
long hours before relief arrived.
frightened women, peering through the
windows Of the unchanged sleeping cars,
tainted when they saw the bodies Of their
friends strewn along the roadside, blood
from the wounds staining the sand drifts
all about. Men who toiled hard at the
task Of rescue collapsed
Mrs. John w. Cutler of Binshamton. N,
Y, was in the baggage car at the time of
the crash to rearrange her trunk Her body
was driven through the floor and the
wrecked car had to be lacked I'D before
the body could be released.
Some Heroic Rescues.
mrs. Fred Greenwood Of Binehau,ton
was with Mrs. Cutler and also won't down
under the tons Of baggage and broken tim
oers' Out she was covered by an avalanche
OF trunks. When rescuers reached the
woman Mrs. Greenwood reached out and
grasped the foot Of one Of the men and
shouted: ''rn not let go until you get me
out Then scalding steam enveloped her
and she was terribly burned. She was res
cued alive. however and was among those
taken to San Luis Obispo
When Miss Cora Young of Cleveland WAS
taken from the shattered dining car she
was still alive, but frightfuIIy injured. Her
entire body had been showered with boiling
water and when women friends removed her
corset the imprint Of the stays was left deep
in the scalded flesh.
Hagerman Hero.
George HaSerman Of Reading. Pa, refused
the aid Of his brother mobiles after they had
dragged him. fatally hurt. from the wreck
Il am dying" he said, "go help the
women"
Sander Deabold of Cleveland worked hero
fcally. but unavailingiy, to save the lives
Of two women pinioned beneath the debris
Of car.
Burrowing his way down into the smold-
ering. splintered wreck. Deabold. with
hose he had wrenched frosl a car, spouted
water from an adjacent tank and extin-
guished the flames. He then reached down
and. after cutting away the broken timbers
that held her fast, took Mrs. William w.
Essick of Reading from the ruins. She was
begging pfteously for relief when Deabold
reached her. As he lifted her from the
wreckage stream Of boiling water poured
over her and the women passengers sought
to remove her outer garments, but tainted
when the flesh came OF with the clothing
Mrs. Essick expired few minutes later
Deaboid was unable longer to endure the
narrowing sight.
A Horrible Sight.
'Tt was the most horrible sight I ever
laid eyes on" he said. whenever I
touched her the prints of the fingers re-
manned in the almost fluid flesh"
Henry J. Fischer of Cleveland went with
his wife and her daughter, Miss Cora
Young, to the baggage car just before the
capped almost unframed from the wreck of
the baggage car, hurled through the roof
to the yielding sands of the beach He
wandered dazedly about the streets today.
asking mournfully: How did I escape?
Why should they die and live?
A. ID. WATSON Of Buffalo was eating at
corner table, within six inches of the hot
water tanks. When the rescuers neared
him he yelled encouraging. Dragged from
the range OF the scalding stream, he MUIR
INJURED: Thank God" and died. His wife
and baby were with him and they escaped
injury.
Charles NJ Tyson of Buffalo is Ill at the
Potter Hotel. unnerved by his experiences.
He faced death many times while dragging
from the debris the bodies Of friends. He
finally collapsed under the strain. 1t was
some time after the wreck occurred before
a word OF 1t reached the outside world. AS
soon as one Of the uninjured trainmen
could make his way to the station word
OF the wreck was flashed to San Luis
Obispo. Immediately special trains were
arranged. Physicians and nurses. gathered
hurriedly, were quickly on the way to the
wreck.
Relief on the Way.
At o'clock relief special left Santa
Barbara and made the sixty-one miles to
Honda in ninety minutes. simultaneously
another special left San Luis Obsipo
equipped with nurses and doctors. It ar
rived shortly before the one that left this
city. Already what work Of rescue was
possible had been done by those who had
Twenty-Five bodies lay on the sand be-
side the track. The injured. many of them
and dying. were scattered
about on piles Of bedding and plush seats
brought from the Pullmans.
It was determined at once to remove the
injured to San Luis Obispo and to take the
dead to Santa Barbara The work Of plac-
ing them upon the two trains was quickly
Before tho special bearing the injured had
San Luis obispo four persons more
had succumbed to their wounds. Physi-
clans and nurses worked over the survivors
necessarily. Arriving at its destination
the train was met by q score Of ambulances
and automobiles and the injured were
quickly carried to sanatorfums
Passed Their Dead Friends.
In the meantime the train returning to
Santa Barbara with its dead was side
tracked at a lonely switch for the passage
Of other trains. Far out on, the sandy
desert, miles from any habitation or from
any wire communication with the outside
world, the special waited for two hours
while train after train Of Shriners bound
from Los Angeles to their eastern homes
swept by to the north.
In the darkness the occupants OF these
trains did not know that they were passing
the funeral train of their brethren.
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