The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-13
DREADFUL DISASflS TO SHRINERS'
EXCURSION TRAIN CASTS GLOOM
FROM COAST TO COAST
were scalded by steam escaping from
disconnected pipes in the kitchen of
the diner.
Scene Indescribable.

Scene Indescribable.
The terror and turmoil of the scene
was indescribable. Many of those who
escaped instant death by the first i'm
pact were crushed by the rear coaches
hurled upon the wreckage. Others,
pintoned in the debris. were roasted
alive. The wreckage caught fire from
the Goals of the engine.
Engineer Frank Champlaine was
pitched with his cab 25 feet beyond
the engine and got up and ran three
quarters of a mile. seeking help before
he discovered that his arm was brok-
en- and that he was severely scalded.
A man standing behind his wife in
the baggage car was hurled through a
huge rent in the roof and alighted in
the soft sand almost uninjured. The
woman was forced through the floors
and wreckers had to lift tons of bag
gage to get her body out.
A Veritable Death Trap.
But the unfortunates who occupied
every seat in the dining car were
caught in veritable death trap. Only
two of the nine men of the diner crew
are numbered among the dead. The
remainder. though cooped up in the
narrow kitchen and pantry, sustained
bad cuts and bruises.
A last call for luncheon had just
sounded few minutes before the dis
aster.
Rajah temple of Reading occupied
the last car on the train and were the
last ones to go forward to the diner.
The car was filled almost entirely with
Reading people when the wreck oc-
CURED. =. An instant after the smash
these who were not rendered insen-
sible or otherwise incapacitated by
the terrible impact jumped from the
train to render aid, but the gruesome
scene before them untitled many for
the work they had to do long hours
before relief arrived.
Blood in Streams.
Frightened women, peering through
the windows of the undamaged sleep
er, tainted when they saw the bodies
of their friends strewn along the road
side. blood from the wounds staining
the sand drifts all about Men who
toiled hard at the task of rescue col
lapsed completely, many of themSbe-
fore the work was finished.
Mrs. John w. Cutler of Bingham
ton, whose husband is also among the
killed, was in the baggage car at the
time of the crash, where she had gone
to rearrange her trunk. Her body
was driven literally through the floor
and the wrecked car had to be lacked
up before it could be released.
Mrs. Fred Grummond of Bingham
ton was with her and also went down
under the tons of baggage and broken
timbers.
When rescuers burrowed their way
to where the two women lay. the liv-
ing one reached out and grasped the
feet of one of the men and shouted:
''I'll not let go until you get me
out"
Then a gust of scalding steam en-
veloped her and she was terribly
burned. She was rescued alive. how
ever, and was among those taken to
San Luis Obispo.
When Miss Cora Young of Cleve-
land was taken from the shattered
diner she was still alive. but fright
fully injured. Her entire body had
been showered with boiling water and
when women friends removed her cor
set, the imprint of the stays were left
deep in the scalded flesh. There were
countless deeds of courage and heroic
self abnegation. A. D. Hagerman of
Reading, Pa: refused the aid of his
brother mobiles after they had dragged
him, fatally hurt, from the wreck.
"GO Help the Women"
II am dying" he said. "go help the
women"
Sander Deahold Of Cleveland worked
heroically, but unavailing to save the
lives of two women pinioned beneath
the diner. The flames had broken out
amid the wreckage and were burning
all about the PROSTATE forms of the
women. Burrowing his way down into
the smouldering, splintered wreck,