The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-14

LdmpOO, Cdl, May III AOooolJ q
score of passengers were killed and as
many injured in a wreck this after
noon on the coast line Of the Union
Pacific, five miles south Of Surf. The
train was a special loaded with shrin-
ers who We're on their way from Los
Angeles to their home in the east. The
train consisted of six cars.
While running at high speed wheel
on the engine broke and the lOcomO-
tive jumped the track and turned over.
Four Of the front cars or the train fol-
lowed it and were smashed to pieces.
The dead and injured were thrown IN
every direction.
The train caught fire immediately at
ter the wreck, but the fire was eXtln-
guished lR the passengers OF the
two rear coaches who We're uninjured
Many of the passengers were burned
and scalded to death by escaping
steam. Some of them were mutilated
beyond recognition.
The first man to reacn LampOO from
the wreck a few minutes before nine
o'clock tonight said that he had
counted ten dead taken from the
wreckage and laid beside the track. A
scores or more were terribly injured.
Many others received less serious in
juries.
The wreck occurred on q level
stretch of track near the beach. The
road bed is of sand at this point and
the broken cars ploughed into and
were half buried init The fireman es-
capped aNne sahhoush injured. tEhe
engineer was hurt about the head and
wandered down the track in dazed
condition toward Surf five miles
distant. He almost reached that place
when overtaken and carried back to
the scene of the wreck.
A wrecking train had reached the
spot from Santa Barbara with a large
number of physicians and nurses on
board
The injured were given Immediate
attention. They We're placed with all
speed ON the train to be taken either
to Santa Barabra or San Luisobispo.
The name of the shrine temple whose
members We're on board We're not
known to the man who brought the
news to Lampoo. He had not stopped
to get the names of any dead or injur-
ed
San Francisco May Il 60 p. m.)-The
following official dispatch has been re-
ceived at the Southern Pacific head
quarters:
''Extra, 2412, engineer Champlain,
with shriners, deraled at Honda, IS
miles north of Santa Barbara, caused
by an obstruction on the track,
wrecking the engine, baggage car
broken in two, three sleepers derailed,
not badly damaged. Will pass train
around wreck at 9 p. n.
San Luis Obispo, Cal, May 11.-At
80 o'clock a special train arrived here
bringing two cars of dead and wound
ed from the wreck at Honda. Passen-
gers who accompanied the train and
who were injured slightly or not at al
assert that the number of dead exceeds
twenty -cne anu lHdl lLlS lOldl " III DS
in the neighborhood OF twenty eigh
Five of the injured passengers died or
the way to this place and others
are hurt so severely that death is but {
matter Of a few hours.
The masons of this city had organi
zed a relief corps before the arrival OF
the train and the injured were hurried
to the hospital and residences, where
preparations had been made for theil
reception.
Trainmen who came from the scene
say that three cars crowded with pas
Sengers and a dining car were demoli
ished, together with two or three bag
gage cars. The latter were piled on tol
of the locomotive.
According to the statements of sur
vivors Shriners from Buffalo ant
Cleveland and Reading, Pennsylvania
were the greatest sufferers. Many o
the dead were scalded so that the.
were unrecognizable Tourist Con
ductor Austin is reported killed,
brakeman is missing and an enginee
has a broken leg.