New-York tribune., 1907-05-13

sun GHVe but frightfully injured Eer entlrc
body had been showered with boiling water. and
when women friends removed her corset the i'm
print of the stays left deep in the scalded
flesh
George Hagernan, of Reading, Penn, refused
the aid of his brother Mobiles after they had
dragged him. fatally hurt. from the wreck. II
am dying" he said 'go help the women"
Sander Deabold. of Cleveland, worked heroi-
Cally but unavailingly to save the lives of two
women pinioned beneath the burning dining car.
Burrowing his way down into the smouldering,
splintered wreck, Deabold. with a hose which
ne had wrenched from coach connection.
spouted water from adjacent tank and ex
tinguished the flames. Then he reached down
and, after cutting away the broken timbers that
held her fast. took Mrs. William W. Essick, of
Reading, from the ruins. She begging
piteously for relief when Deabold reached her.
AS he lifted her from the wreckage, a stream of
boiling water poured over her Women pas
sengers sought to remove her upper garments
but tainted when flesh came off with the cloth
Ing. Mrs. Essick died a few minutes later.
'It the most horrible sight I ever laid
eyes on" said Deabold Whenever I touched
her the prints OF the fingers remained in the
flesh"
LOST WIFE AND HER DAUGHTER
Henry j. Fisher OF Cleveland went with his
baggage car just before the wreck The women
were killed. and he escaped almost unharmed
from the wreck OF the baggage car being
thrown out on the sand. He wandered dazedly
about the streets to-day. asking mournfully:
How did I escape? Why should they die and
I live?"
A. d. wasson. OF Buffalo. eating at
corner table. within six inches of the hot water
tank. When the rescuers neared him he yelled
scalding steam. he murmured. Thank Godr'
and died. His wife and baby were with him. and
they escaped injury.
Charles NJ Tyson. OF Buffalo is III at the Pot
ter Hotel. unnerved by his experiences. He
faced death many times while dragging from
the debris the bodies Of friends He finally COL
lapsed under the strain.
RELIEF TRAINS SENT.
II was some time after the wreck occurred
before word of Il reached the outside world
As one of the uninjured trainmen could
make his way to the station. word of the wreck
was flashed to San Luis Obispo. Immediately
trains were arranged Physicians and nurses
gathered hurriedy were quickly on the way to
the wreck.
At o'clock relief train left Santa Barbara
and made the siXty-One miles to Honda In ninety
minutes simultaneously another special train
doctors 1t arrived shortly before the that
left this city, Already what work of rescue
possible had been done by those who had escaped
the disaster.
Twenty-Five bodies lay the sand beside the
track. The injured. many of them unconscious
and dying, scattered about piles of
bedding and plush seats brought from the Pull
mans.
1t determined at 10 remove the in
jured to San Luis Obispo and take the dead TO
Santa Barbara The work of placing them upon
the two trains quickly accomplished
Before the special train bearing the injured
had reached San Luis Obispo four persons more
had succumbed 20 their wounds Physicians and
nurses worked the survivors incessanty
Arriving at its destination, the train was met by
a score Of ambulances and automobiles. and the
injured were quickly carried to sanatoriums
In the mean time the train returning to Santa
Barbara with it's dead was sidetracked AT a
lonely switch fer the passage of other trains 1t
waited for two hours while train after train OF
Shriners bound from Los Angeles to their East
ern homes hurried by 10 the north.
Los Angeles, May 12.-The Associated Press
received the following message to-Gay, from I'M
perial POtentate Frank G. Roundy, sent from
Paso Robes. Cal, when Mr.. Roundy passed
there on the Medinah Temple (Chicago) special
train. returning from the Los Angeles conclave:
To the Nobility of North America: 1t is with
profound regret that | announce that horrible
disaster has saddened the homeward Journey
of many of Mobiles from our imperial coun-
ellis at Los Angeles. and l hereby express my
deep sympathy and sorrow for the irreparable
loss of life sustained by Ishmaili and Raiah
Temples in the wreck of their special train.
FRANK c. ROUNDY, Imperial Potentate.