Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-13
Dining Car, which was ruled with
People from ReadinE, Pa,
Lands on Top of
Locomotive.

score OF others The bodies of twenty-five
lie in the morgues Of Santa Barbara this
afternoon and ten more are at San Luis
obispo. The injured. many OF whom are
terribly hurt and will probably die, arc in
two sanitariums at San Luis Obispo.
Following is list of the dead now in
the Santa Barbara morgres:
Dead at Santa Barbara, twenty-one as
]. DOUGLAS HIPPLB Reading, Pa.
II. X Gitueman, Reading, Pa
A. l.. ROTH, Reading, Pa
GILBERT STEFFE, Reading Pa
w. ID. WATSON, Buffalo, N. Y,
j. w. CUTLER, Binghamton, N. Y.
CHARLES NJ. LOWING, Pullman con-
G. w. AUSTIN. New York. agent for Nc
Cams Tourist company, New York
CHARLES s. HENRY, Lebanon, Pa
JOHN LACEY, negro dining car waiter
r.. w. SWEENEY, negro dining car
MRS. WILLIAM w. BssICK, Reading.
MRS. JOHN w. CUTLER, Binghamton,
MRS. HENRY ]. FISHER, Cleveland
MISS CORA YOUNG, Cleveland.
MRS. BRUNIBACH, Reading.
GEORGE N HAGDRMAN, Reading.
BENJAMIN STOLTZ, Reading.
HARRISON r. HENDEI. Reading.
OLIVER Il. KAUFMAN, Reading.
HARRY G. MILLER, Reading.
At San Luis obispo. ten:
S. s. SNYDER, Reading.
MRS S. S. SNYDER, Reading.
RICHARD ElSSICIS, Reading.
THOMAS ]. PRUNLAUCH, Reading.
a. MlS n. EfL1.ENBoGEN, 5efas Allentown, Pa.
MRS L. N. BI-LbNBOGBN, Allentown.
Howard MoYER, Hazieton, Pa
AL,oNzo b. RoGERs, ST. Paul. Pullman
UNTDENTIFTED WOMAN, probably
Mrs. Mary c. Ivins. Reading, Pa
List of Injured.
Injured at San Luis Obispo:
S. A. Bickford, brakeman, of San Fran
r. Fountain, brakeman, missing last
night, was brought to this city this morn
part OF his body paralyzed Fountain
crawled 100 yards to ag the second section
following and later was was picked picked up and
w. II. Boyd Reading Pa, badly scalded
Martin l. Henry, Shamokin, Pa, injured
spine and severely scalded.
II. r. Lee, Orwigsburg, Pa, face lacer-
ated, both hips cut and fractured leg.
J. Logan, Buffalo, N Y, leg featured and
III IT. A. Hartzeli, Easton, Pa, severely
scalded and fractured leg.
Charles McKinne, Binghamton, N. "
Mrs, Mckinney, severely bruised about
i Mrs, Fred Grummond, Binghamton, N. Y.
A w. Roppole, Dennis Point, N. z, Sc
Yerely bruised about neck;
Fireman Gieen Thompson face arms and
internal injuries
Mrs. Hendel and daughter, Helen, Read
ing, Pa, not serious.
J. Calvin Hoffeditg. Reading, Pa, left leg
fractured, scalp wound.
Train Was Running Fast
The wreck occurred exactly at 1885, one
hour and forty-five minutes after the con-
clave visitors forming merry party, had
spent all the morning sightseeing in Santa
NhuN NVnfr,
was making a terrific speed when It
struck the defective track is borne out by
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 in an instant the
big locomotive, baggage car, diner and
Pullman coupled with II were hurled to-
gether in a huge heap Of wreckage The
engine shot forward on the broken track,
tearing up the rails and ties and twisting
the huge iron spans into fshhooks. The
baggage 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 thirty
two people eating their MONDAY meal,
leaped into the air and was thrown di-
rectly on top OF the demolished locomo-
tive Nearly every person in this coach
was instantly killed. Scores were sealded
by steam escaping from disconnected pipes
in the kitchen OF the diner.
Debris takes Fire.
The terror and turmoll'of the scene was
indescribable. Many OF those who es-
caped instant death by the first impact
were crushed by the 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 extinguished IN a few minutes by
the passengers who escaped injury.
Engineer Frank Champ ain was pitched
with his cab twenty-five feet beyond the
engine and got up and ran three-quarters
of a mile seeking help, before he discOv-
cred that his arm was broken and that he
was severely scalded. man standing be-
hind his wife in the baggage car was
hurled through a huge rent IN the roof
and alighted in soft. yielding sand. almost
uninjured. The woman was forced through
the floors and w~eckorr hod to lift tons
OF baggage 10 get her body out
Dining Room "a Death Trap.
But the unfortunates who occupied every
seat In the dining car were caught in,
veritable death trap Only two OF the nine
OF the crew OF the diner are numbered
among the dead. The remainder. though
cooped up in the narrow kitchen and PAN
try, sustained but few cuts and bruises.
A last call for luncheon had just sounded
a few minutes before the disaster.
Rajah temple OF Reading occupied the last
car on the train and we're the last ones
70 "a forgard 70 the dinen, rha oax MA