The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-05-18

party. had spent all the morning sight
seeing in Santa Barbara. The state
ment that the train was making a ter
rife speed when it struck the defective
track is borne out by the fact that ii
covered the 81 miles of curves and
crooked track between here and Hon
ia in exactly one hundred minutes.
There was no warning of the i'm
pending calamity. The special plunged
upon the defective switch and in an
instant the big locomotive. baggage
car, diner and Pullman, coupled with it.
were hurled together in a huge heap
of wreckage. The engine shot forward
IN the broken track, tearing up the
rails and ties and twisting the huge
iron spans into fshhooks. The bag
gage car half buried itself in the sand
on the right side of the locomotive.
II was smashed almost to kindling
wood The dining car, in which were
90 people eating their monday repast,
leaped into the air and was thrown di
rectly on top OF the demolished loco
motive. Nearly every person in this
coach was instantly killed. Scores
were scalded by steam escaping from
disconnected pipes in the kitchen of
the diner.
The terror and turmoil Of tho scene
was indescribable Many who escaped
instant death in the first impact were
crushed by the coming rear coaches
hurled upon the wreckage. Others,
pinioned in the debris, were roasted
alive. The wreckage caught fire from
the GOALS Of the engine, but was eXtin-
suished in a few moments by the pas
srnsers who had escaped injury.
Engineer Frank Chaplaine, who was
pitched with his cab, - feet beyond
the engine. got up and ran three
quarters of mile. seeking help, before
he discovered that his arm was broken
and that he was severely scalded.
\ man standing behind his wife in
the baggage ear was hurled through
huge rent in the roof and alighted in
soft and yielding sand almost unin-
iured The woman was forced through
the floor and wreckers had to lift tons
Of baggage 10 get her body out.
But the unfortunates who occupied
every seat in the dining car were
caught in a veritable death trap Only
TWO of the nine men of the diners crew
are numbered among the dead. The
remainder. though cooped up in the
narrow kitchen and pantry, sustained
but a few cuts and bruises.
\ last call for luncheon had just
sounded a few minutes before the dis
Aster. Rajah Temple of Reading occu-
pied the last car on tho train and were
the last ones to go forward to the
diner. The car was filled almost en-
tirely with Reading people when the
wreck occurred. An instant after the
smash those who were not rendered in
sensible or otherwise incapacitated by
she terrific impact, jumped from the
erain to render aid. but the gruesome
scene before them untitled many for
the work they had TO do in the long
hours before relief arrived.
Frightened women, peering thorugh
the windows of the unchanged sleeper,
tainted when they saw the bodies OF
their friends strewn along the road
side, blood from the gaping wounds
staining the sand drifts all about. Men
who toiled hard at the task of rescue
collapsed completely. many of them
before the work was finished.
Mrs. John W. Cutler of Binghamton
whose husband is also among the
killed. was in the baggage car at the
time OF the crash. where she had gone
TO re-arrange her trunk. Her body
was driven literally through the floor
and the wrecked car had to be lacked
Up before IT could be released.
was with her and also went down I'M
Mrs. Fred Grummond of Binghamtor
der the tons of baggage and broker
rimbers. When rescuers burrowed then
way TO where the two women lay, The
living one reached out and grasped the
feet of one of the men and shouted
IN not let go until you get me out.
Then a gust of scalding steam enHel'
oped her. and she was terribly burned
She was rescued alive. however, anC
was among those taken to san l.ui!
Obispo.
When Miss Cora Young of Cleveland
ohio, was taken from the shattered
diner she was still living. but fright
fully injured. Her entire body hat
been showcred with boiling water and
when women friends removed her cor
set. the imprint of the stays was left
deep in the scaldcd flesh.
There were countless deeds of cour
age and heroic self-abnegation. y. ID
Ifagerman of Reading, refused the aic
Of his brother mobiles after they hat
dragged him, fatally hurt. from Tho
wreck. II am dying" he said, gc
help the women"
Sander Debald OF Cleveland WORKED
heroically, but unayailingly, to save
The lives of two women pinned be-
meath the diner The flames had brok-
IN out amidst the wreckage and were
burning all about the PROSTATE forms
of the women. Burrowing his way
into the smoldertg. splintered wreck
Debald, with a hose which he had
wFenched from q coach, sprinkled
water from an adjacent tank and ex'
rtnguished the flames. Then he reached
down. and after cutting away the brok-
en- timbers that held her fast, took
Mrs william W. Essick of Reading
froIp the ruins. She was begging pite-
susay for relief when Debald reached
her. As he lifted her from the wreck
age stream OF boiling water poured
over her, scaldins her body terribly
women passengers sought to remove
her upper garments, but tainted when
the hesh came or with them. She ex'
pired In few minutes after being car
rbed out on the sand and Debald was
forced Into the S1eepet no longer ahls
Co endure the narrowing scenes or
every hand.
~ was the most horrible sight
ever laid eyes upon" he said. When
aver touched her the print or my
dngers remained In the flesh.
Henry ]. Fisher of Cleveland went
under protest with his wife and hei
as.ughser Miss Cora Young and Mrs
John w. Cutler TO the baggage car
rhe threc women were killed and hc
ESCAPED almost unharhed from the