Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-23
FAST TRAIN DITCHED
Southern PaOih, Coast Flyer Leaves Track
Near Los Angeles.
fTWo DEAD AND TWENTY INJURED
Meu Killed Were Stealing a Ride Under
the Baggage Car.
FlsHPLATEs REMOVED BY wRscKERs
Rails Spread Toward Edge Of TrsStls BY
Heavy Wirs.
RAILROAD OFFERS A LARGE REWARD
Southern Pacific VIII Pay $4,000 for
Arrest and Conviction of the
Persons Responsible for
the Wreck.
RAILROAD OFFERS A LARGE REWARI

Los ANGELES. Cal, May 22.-Private
detectives employed by the Southern Pa
cifc and deputies from the sherirs Office
In this city Joined in the search for the
men who are believed 10 have caused this
mornings disastrous wreck on the Coast
line when five cars OF the Coast line lin
tied plunged over the edge Of a trestle
near West Glendale, ten miles north Of
Ibis city. The list Of dead Is believed TO
be complete with the finding Of the bodies
OF James Victor. Of whose antecedents
nothing Is known, and T. J. Mcmahon.
Santa Barbara electrician, who was
crushed beneath the baggage car while
stealing ride. Victor Is believed TO have
met death under the same conditions, but
his body was not discovered until the car
was partially raised from the dry bed OF
the Arroyo seco. The injured number
score.
List of the Injured.
Among the injured were the following:
T. Il Young Oakland porter; cut about
head; hip dislocated.
Mrs shidiey, Los Angeles, injured In
ternally, will probably die
Mrs Rose Fetterman, Cleveland. O.. arm
broi-en, decorations OF scalp and head, in
Miss Fern Opdyke, Pittsburg, Pa; in
jured internally; scalp cut
head and face, arm broken.
w, S. Sutt Los Angeles. scalp cut, in
ternal injuries.
badly cut knee cap broken.
William Love; Pullman porter. face cut
C. H Robbins, Los Angeles, head cut
n. e. Jacobs. Los Angeles, shoulder
broken, right arm cut. .. -.
badly bruised.
P. H Baker. Portland. Ore; cut about
head and face hip dislocated
f III. ShanIpV. dining conductor.
San Francisco. scalp wound and lacerations
Ben Doxon. Oakland. dining car waiter.
cut and bruised.
Ed Wilcox, Oakland. second cook. cut
r. a. Wood. Oakland; dining car waiter;
cut and bruised.
Find Cause of Disaster.
n Two Pullmans and the observation car
ftemain on the track The fall crushed and
4 damaged several OF the cars and it was
In the grinding crush that the passengers
were hurt.
with the aid OF lanterns the trainmen
made an examination OF the track in order
70 determine II possible the reason OF the
derailment. Under the first coach which re-
mained on the track were round the Ioos-
ened rails with the wires securely fastened
through the bolt holes and the ends unit
ing In a single strand that led into the
brush on the hillside.
Physicians in charge OF the dozen OF
more persons who sustained serious in,
jurtes tonight report that all the intured
viii eventually recover
reward OF $4,000 offered by the South,
ern Pacific company for the conviction
on the person or persons responsible fol
the wreck has enlisted many officers and
detectives IN the search for the miscreants
Wreck Near Cincinnati.
NASHVILLE, Ky, May Z1.-Chesapeai,
& Ohio train No. 2. which left Cincinnati
for the east at noon today. was wreclSe.
seven miles west OF this city. The tract
buckled. throwing the observation car from
the track. II ran along the ties about
hundred feet, then went over the banks
about nifty feet high.
There were Is passengers in the car anC
ali were injured, Is OF them seriously, on,
dying here.
The dead:
MRS. MARY HAISEY, wife OF Judg
W. T. Halsey, Milwaukee. Wis.
The fatally iniurt ]:
Mrs. Lsarrie OF St Louis, both legs an,
arm broken
Among tho seriously injured are:
Judge W. T. Halsey OF Milwaukee an,
r. Allen, Rockford, H.. head cut.