Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-12
About Thirty Believed 10 Have
Lost Their Lives IN COLL.
sion al Randa, California.
WERE ON THEIR way 70 HOMES
Had Been Attending the Big Conceive
al Los AnacIes-Accident Was
Cnused by a Wheel of the Locomo.
tive 6reakins-Many Of the Victims
We're scaIded Beyond Recognition.
(By Associated PraHH. [,


LOMPOCO, CAL, May 11.-Proba.
bly, score of passengers were Killed
and as many injured in wreck this
afternoon on the Coast line of the
southern Pacific, five miles south OF
SURF. The train was special, loaded
with Shriners who were on the way
from Los Angeles to their homes in
the East. The train consisted of
six coaches.
While running Mt high spded,
wheel on the engine Lroke and the
locomotive jumped the track AMI
turned over. -Four of the front cars
of the train followed 1t and we're
smashed. The dead and injured were
thrown in every direction. The train
caught fire Immediately after the
wreck, but the fire was extlnguishcu
by passengers of the two rear coach
es, who were uninjured Many of
!. Tho passengers were burned and
scalded to death by escaping steam.
Some OF them were mutilated beyond
recognition The first man TO reach
Lompoco from the wreck, few min
utcs before nine o'clock tonight, said
& he had counted ten dead. who had
been taken from the wreck and laid
beisde the track. A score of more
were terribly injured Many others
received less serious injuries. The
wreck occurred on a level stretch of
track near the beach. The road bed
is OF sand at this point, and the
broken cars ploughed into it and were
half buried III 1t. The fireman es.
CAPPED alive, although injured. The
engineer was hurt about the head
and wandered down the track in a
dazcd condition toward Surf, five
miles distant
He had almost reached the place
when overtaken and carried back TO
the scene of the wreck. A wrecking
train had reached the spot from San.
tn Barbara with a large number of
PHYSICIANS and nurses on lioard.
The injured were given immediate
attention. They were placed with all
speed on the train to he taken either
to Santa Barbara or San Luis Obispo.
The names of the Shrine Temple
whose members were on board. were
not known to the man who brought
the news to Lompoco. He had not
stopped to get the names of any dead
or injured
Some of the Dead.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL, Nav III
60 p. m,)-The following official dis.
patch has been receivedi at Southern
Pacific headquarters:
Extra 2dl2. Engineer Champlain,
with Shriners derailed at Honda, g.,
miles north of Santa Barbara, caused
by an obstruction on the track,
wrecking the engine. baggage car,
broken in two. three sicepers derail-
ed. not badly damaged. Will pass
train around wreck at Q D. M"
Killed, SO far reported: S. A. Was.
son. Bullafo: Mrs. Fisher. Cleveland;
Miss Young, Cleveland: Charles Low.
ing, Bullafo: - Austin. tourists
agent: j. w. Nipple. Reading. Pa:
V. Stoffe. Reading: Harry Hendle,
Reading: George Hagerman. Reading:
Harry Slotz, Reading; Harry Miller.
Reading: T Roth, Reading: - Hen
ry. Lebanon, Ohio; j. W. Gutter and
wife, residence not given. Twenty
two severely injured; eight or ten
slightly.
Some severely injured: probably will
die. Special trains from Santa Bar
bara. LompOco and San Luis Obispo
with doctors and nurses have been
sent.
The most seriously injured sent to
San Luis Obispo hospital. /
Dead May Number Thirty.
SAN LUIS OBiSPO. CAL. May II |
AT o'clock a special train arrived
here, bringing two cars OF dead and
wounded from the wreck at Honda.
who accompanied the
train and who were injured slightly
or not<at all, assert that the number
of dead exceeds twenty.one aud that
the total will be in the neighborhood
of twentv-eight.
Five of the injured passengers died
on the way to this place.>an others
are hurt so severely that their death
is hut matter Of few hours. The
Masons of this city had organized a
relief corps before the arrival of the
train.
Homes Thrown Open for Wounded.
The injured were hurried 10 the
hospitals and residences. where prep
arations had been made for their re.
ception Trainmen who came from
the scene Of the wreck say that tho
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