Connecticut western news., 1907-05-16
TH|RTY-S|X KILLED,
Casualties of Shriners' Wreck ln- cIude TWenty-tWo Injured.
NEW YORK MOBILES PERISH.

M Am Dying; Go Help the Women"
 Exclaimed a Pennsylvania Man to
 Rescuers-Accident Caused by Loco-
 motive Striking a Defective Switch.
 Santa Barbara, Gal, May 15.-Thir- ty-six persons dead, one missing and twenty-two seriously injured is the latest tally of the victims of the awful wreck at Honda of the Southern Pa cifc special train carrying home New York and Pennsylvania Nobles of the Mystic Shrine from the annual meeting of the imperial council of the order at Los Angeles.
 Following is the list of known dead:
 G. H. Austen, Silver Creek, N. T., tourist agent; William Austen, Ismalia temple, Buffalo; Thomas J. Brumbach. Rajah temple, Reading, Pa.; Mrs. T. J. Brumbach, wife of Thomas J., Rajah temple, Reading, Pa.; - Broundbar. Rajah temple, Reading, Pa.; John W. Cutler, Ismalia temple, Binghamton, N. Y.; Mrs. J. w. Cutler, Ismalia tenn pie, Binghamton, N. Y.; Lewis Ellan- bogen, Allentown, Pa; Mrs. Lewis N. Ellenbogen, wife of Lewis N. Allen town, Pa; Richard Essick, Rajah tenn pie, Reading, Pa.; Mrs. w. w. Essick Reading, Pa; Mrs. J. H. Fisher, Al Koran temple, Cleveland, O.; H. K. Gittleman, Rajah temple, Reading, Pa.; G w. F. Hagaman, Rajah temple, Reading, Pa.; - Hammel, Rajah tenn pie, Reading, Pa.; Harris J. Hendle, Rajah temple, Reading, Pa; Charles L. Henry Rajah temple, Lebanon, Pa.; J. Douglas Nipple, potentate, Rajah temple, Reading, Pa.; Mrs. Mary Ivens, Rajah temple, Reading, Pa.; Oliver Kaufman, Rajah temple, Reading, Pa.; John Lacey, negro, dining car waiter, Chicago; Miss Long, Al Koran temple, Cleveland, O.; Charles M. Lowing, Pullman conductor, Buffalo; Harry G. Miller, Rajah temple, Reading, Pa.; A. l.. Roth, Rajah temple, Reading, Pa.; Alonzo B. Rogers, dining car conduct or, St. Paul. Minn.; Harry Rutler, Ra- jah temple, Reading, Pa.; Stockton Snyder, Rajah temple, Reading, Pa.: Mrs. Stockton Snyder Rajah temple. Reading, Pa.; Benton Stolz, Rajah tenn pie, Reading, Pa. Nora Stolz, sister of Benton Stolz, Rajah temple, Read ing, Pa.; R. W. Sweeney, negro, dining car waiter, Chicago; A. D. Wasson, Ismalia temple, Buffalo; Miss Cora B. Young, Al Koran temple, Cleveland, O.; Mrs. E. Kahler Reading, Pa.
 The Injured.
 Among the injured are: - Bickford, brakeman, back broken; Mir. Boyd, leg broken; - Champlain, engineer, scald- ed; Mrs Fred Greenwood Bingham ton, N. r., leg broken; Howard A. Hartzell, former mayor of Easton, Pa., not serious; Mrs. Helen Hendel and daughter, Reading, not serious; Martin Henry, Shamokin, Pa, scalded; J. Cal win Hoffeditg, Reading, left shoulder fractured and scalp wound; A. R. Rafael, Bennis Point, Ore, scalp wound; Glen Thompson, fireman, face and arms scalded and internally in- jured.
 The train, carrying 145 Shriners and friends from Ismalia temple Buffalo; Rajah temple, Reading, Pa, and neigh boring cities, was rushing northward fifty miles an hour on the South Pa cific Coast line when the locomotive struck a defective switch at the sand swept seacoast siding of Honda, near the waters of the Pacific ocean, along which the railroad runs for hundred miles north of Santa Barbara. The locomotive turned a somersault into the yielding sands. The cars swirled through the air and landed on the fiery mass of wrecked steel The coaches were crushed to debris and took fire The flames were soon extinguished by uninjured persons from the two rear coaches. The bodies of twenty-one vic tins now lie in Santa Barbara, and eight more are in San Luis Obispo. The injured, many of whom are terri bly hurt and some of whom may die, are in two sanitariums in San Luis Obispo.
 Woman Driven Through Floor.
 Mrs. Cutler of Binghamton was in the baggage car at the time of the crash to rearrange her trunk. Her body was driven through the floor, and the wrecked car had to be jacked up before the body could be released.
 Mrs. Greenwood was with Mrs. Cut Ter and also went down under the tons of baggage and broken timbers, but she was covered by an arch of trunks. When rescuers burrowed their way to where the two women lay Mrs. Green wood reached out and grasped the foot of one of the men and shouted:
 'I'll not let go until you get me out''
 Then scalding steam enveloped her, and she was terribly burned. She was rescued alive, however, and was among those taken to San Luis Obispo.
 George Hagerman of Reading, Pa, refused the aid of his brother nobles hurt from the wreck.
 'I am dying" he said. "Go help the women"