New-York tribune., 1907-05-13
WRECKS DEAD NOW 81.
Orer a Score Injured in accident to
Shriners' Special Train.

Imperial Council of the Ancient Arabic Order of
the Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine at Los Angeles.
The victims are:
THE DEAD
AUSTIN. G. W. New York McCann's Tourist
BRUNBACH, Thoma. j.. Reading
CUTLER, John W. and wife. Binghamton. y. Y.
ELIENBoGEN. Louis N. and wife Allentown. Penn
ESSICK. Richard. Reading Penn.
BSsICK Mrs W. w. Reading. Penn.
FISHER. Mrs Henry J.. Cleveland.
GITTLEMAN. II K, Reading.
HAGERMAN. George y. Reading Penn.
FENDE2l. Harrison. Reading. Penn
HENRY. Charles s. Lebanon Penn.
HIPPLE, J. A Douglass Potentate Rajah Temple,
Kaufman. Oliver F.. Reading Penn
LACEY. John negro. dining waiter
LOWING. Charles NJ Pullman conductor Buffalo
MoYER. Howard. CastIeton. Penn.
MILLER Harry G.. Reading Penn
ROTH. A. l.. Reading Penn.
SNYDER. S. s.. and wife. Reading. Penn
STEF'FE. c. Gilbert. Reading. Penn
STOLTz BENJAMIN. Reading.
STOI-TZ. Miss Reading
RoGERs. Alon1o B. Pullman conductor st Paul
SWEENEY. r. W. negro. dining waiter
WATSON. ". n. Ismalia Temple. Buffalo
YOUNG Miss Cora. Cleveland.
Unidentified woman probably Mrs Mary c WINS Read
THE INJURED.
BGCKFORD brakeman: back broken.
BOYD. Reading leg broken
CTIAMPIAIN. engineer: scaIded
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injuries not serious '''-'
HENDErA Mrs -. Reading Penn; injuries not seriou,
HENDE1- Miss Helen. Reading Penn; injuries
HENRY, Martin shamokin. Penn: scaldea
HoFFEDTTG J. Calvin. Reading; shoulder
RAFAEL. \. r. Bennis Point, ore. scalp wound
THOMPSON Glen. fireman: face and scalded and
The train carrying i45 Shriners and friends
from Ismalia Temple. Buffalo; Rajah Temple
Reading. Penn. and neighboring cities was run
ming northward ffty miles hour on the South
ern Pacific Coast Line when the locomotive
struck defective switch the sand swept sid
ing OF Honda. the ocean along which the
railroad for hundred miles north of Santa
Barbara. The locomotive turned a somersault
into the sand and the thrown
through the air and landed partly H. The
coaches were crushed and took fire but the
flames were soon extinguished by uninjured per-
sons from the two rear coaches. AS Honda is
isolated II was not till late day that definite
information could be collected The bodies of
twenty-five victims now lie In Santa Barbara
and four more at San Luis Obispo. The in
1ured persons, many Of whom are terribly hurt
and some OF whom may die, are In two sana-
toriums al San Luis ObispO.
VICTIMS SCALDED AND BURNED
The wreck occurred at 2:35 o'clock an hour
ana tOrty minutes after tne COnCidNe NlSltOrS
forming merry party had left Santa Barbara
where they had spent the morning sightseeing
The statement that the train making high
speed when IT struck the defective track Is borne
out by the fact that II covered the sixty-one
miles of crooked track from Santa Barbara to
Honda in 100 minutes. The locomotive In leav-
ing the rails tore up the track, twisting the
heavy steel rails The baggage half
buried in the sand on the right side of the loco
motive. It was smashed almost to kndling wood
The dining car, in which thirty-two persons
were eating luncheon, thrown into the air
and fell directly on the demolished locomotive.
Nearly every person III the ear was instantly
killed Some were sCalded TO death by steam
escaping from the engine The coaches
rushed the first wreckage. jamming il on
those who might otherwise have escaped. Sew
eraI pinioned in the debris roasted alive
Frank Champlain the engineer, was pitched
with the cab twenty-five feet beyond the en-
ginc. He got up and ran a mile. seeking help
before he discovered that his broken
and that he was severely scalded. only two OF
the nine men of the dining crew are dead
The remainder, though cooped up in the narrow
kitchen and pantry, sustained only cuts and
bruises
a last call for luncheon had just sounded
few minutes before the disaster Rajah Temple
OF Reading, occupied the last ear on the train
and the Rajah Shriners were the last ones to
go forward to the dining The thus
filled almost entirely with Reading people when
the wreck occurred.
HELP LONG IN COMING.
An instant after the crash those who not
incapactated jumped from the train to render
aid, but they were unable to do much besides
tinguish the fire. and they had to wait hours
before relief arrived.
Frightened women. peerinG through the Win
dows OF the unchanged sleeping tainted
when they the bodies of their friends strewn
along the roadside, blood from the wounds
staining the sand drifts all about. Men who
worked hard at the task of rescue collapsed.
Mrs John W. Cutler, of Bnghamton. N Y,
was in the baggage at the time of the crash
|, 70 rearrange her trunk. Her body was driven
| through the floor. end the wrecked car had to
be lacked up before It could be released
Mrs Fred Greenwood. of Bnghamton. was
| with Mrs. Cutler. and also went down under the
| tons of baggage and broken timbers. but she
| was protected by arch OF trunks. When
rescuers burrowed their way 10 where she lay
| Mrs. Greenwood reached out and grasped the
foot of one of the men and shouted 'I'll not
let go until you get out Then steam en-
veloped her and she terribly burned She
rescued alive. however. and among
those taken 10 San Luis Obispo,
taken from the shattered dining car, she was