The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-13

Idlos ana ht9an Temple Oi 7tNeduihS, WIN
their families and friends, were hurled in
- the midst of death, when their special
train. running fifty miles an hour, struck
n defective switch at Honda, d lonely sta
tion ON the sand wastes Of the Pacific
beach. deraling the train, smashing Inc
coaches into flinders, killing thirty-one
almost instantly and injuring more than
score of others The bodies of twenty
one lie in the morgues of Santa Barbara
this afternoon and eleven more are ar san
Luis Obispo. The injured. many of whom
are terribly hurt and will probably ole,
are IN two sanitariums at San LUIS
ObispO.
Dead at Santa Barbara, Twenty-One.
j. Douglas Nipple. Reading, Pa.
H. X. Gitticman Reading.
A. J.. Roth. Reading.
Gilbert Steff, Reading
A ID. WassOn Buffalo. \. Y.
Charles S. Henry, Lebanon, Pa.
J. " Cutter, Binshsmton. \. \.
charles NJ. Lowing, Pullman conductor,
9. NJ. Austin. New York agent for
McCanus tourist company New York
John Lacey. negro, dining car waiter
K ". Sweeney, negro, dining car
waiter
Mrs. William W. Essick Reading
Mrs. John ". Cutter, BiRghamton n Y.
Mrs. Henry J. Fisher. Cleveland. ..
Miss Cora Young, Cleveland, Q.
Mrs Brumbach, Reading.
George 4. Hsgermsn, Reading
benjamin Stoltz. Reading
Harrison Hendel. Reading
q. r. K2ufmann. Reading.
Harry Miller, Reading
At San Luis obispo, Ten.
S Snyder, Reading
Mrs. S Snyder, Reading.
Richard fssick Reading.
Thomas j. Prunlach. Reading
Miss Stoitz. Reading
J.. =. EllenbOgen, Allentown. Pa
Mrs. J.. X EIlenbGgen. Allentown, Pa.
Howard Meyer, Hazleton, Pa
Aloazo Z Rogers. ST. Paul; Pullman
Unidentified woman, probably Mrs.
Mary Z. Wins, Reading. Pa
S. A. Bickford, brakeman, San Fran
cisco; fatally injured.
Injured at san Luis obispo.
r. Fountain, brakeman; missing last
night: was brought to this city this
morning. His back is injured and the
lower part of his body paralyzed FOun-
tain crawled a hundred years to flag the
Second section following and later was
picked I'D and conveyed to this city this
w Il. Boyd Of Reading. Pa; badly
scaided-
Martin l. Henry, Shamokin, Pa; in
jured spine and severely scalded.
H. II. Lee. Orwigsburg. Pa; face LAGER
ated. both hips cut and fractured leg.
j. Logan. Buffalo, \. y leg frac-
tured and three ribs broken
H. a Hartsel. Easton. Pa; severely
Ecalded and fractured leg
Charles Mckinney. Binghamton, n y;
back injured.
Mrs Mckinney; severely bruised about
the body.
Mrs Fred Grumond. Binghamton. N.
4 w RoppoIe OF Bennis Point, N Y;
severely bruised about neck.
Engineer Champlaine: badly scalded-
Fireman Glen Thompson; face, arms
is,ea mi
Mrs. HeHdei and daughter Helen, Of
4 Reading. Pa: not serious
I J. CALVIN Hoeffeditg Of Reading, Pa.
left leg fractured; scalp wound.
Making Terrific Speed.
The wreck occurred exactly at 2:s5
o'clock. one hour and forty-fiye minutes
after the conclave visitors forming a
sightseeing in Santa Barbara The state
ment that the train was making terrific
speed when it struck the defective track
is borne out BIZ the fact that it covered
the sixty-one miles OF curves and crooked
track between here and Honda in exactly
100 minutes.
There was no warning Of the impending
calamity The special plunged upon the
defective switch and N an instant the
big locomotive, baggage car. diner and
Pullman. couDled with il. were hurled
together in huge beaD OF wreekage- The
engine shot forward on the broken track,
tearing up the rails and ties and twisting
the huge iron spans into fish hooks The
baggage car half buried itself in the sand
on the right side of the locomotive. II
was smashed almost to kindling wood
Slaughter in Dining Car.
The dining car in which We're thirty
two people eating their MONDAY repast
leaped into the air and was thrown direct
" on top OF the demolished locomotive
Nearly every person in this coach was in
stantly killed. Scores were scalded by
steam escaping from disconnected pipes in
the kitchen Of the diner.
The terror and turmoil Of the scene
was indescribable. Many of those who
escaped instant death by the first inn
pact were crushed by the rear coaches
hurled upon the wrecksge Others, PIN
toned in the debris. were roasted alive.
The wreckage caught fire from the Goals
OF the engine but the fire was eXtin-
guished IN a few minutes by the passen-
gers who escaped injury.
Engineer Frank Champagne was pitched
with his cab twenty-five feet beyond the
engine. and got and ran three-Quarters
of mile. seeking help. before he dis
covered that--his arm was broken and
that he was severely sealded-
Wife Killed; Husband Spared.
man standing behind mis- wife in the
baggage car was hurled through a huge
rent in the roof and alighted in soft and
> yielding sand almost uninjured- The wo-
man was forced through the floor. and
e wreckers had to lift tons CT baggage
10 get her body out.
But the unfOrtunates who occupied
every seat in the dining 5ar were caught
in veTifGble death trap. Only two OF
the nine men Of the diner crew are num-
f;ered among the dead. The remainder.
though coopcd Hp in the narrow kitchen
and pantry sustained but a few cuts and
bruises
4 last cali fOrsluncheon had just sound
ed Il " minutes before the disaster
Rajah temple Of Reading occupied tho