Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-05-16
MYSTIC SHR|NERS MEET
TERRIBLE DEATH IN WRECK
Loaded Train Piled up by Breaking of
Engine Wheel L
Dead Will Probably Number Thirty or More
MANY Hurt
Fire Follows the Crash bnt Passengers
Extingush Flames

San Luis obispo. Cal. May IA
train mas arrived here bringing dead
and wounded from the wreck at
! Honda. Passengers who accompan-
| led the train assert that the number
| of dead will probably be 2S. Five
injured passengers died on the way
to this place and Others are hurt SO
badly that death Is but a matter OF
! few hours.
The trainmen who came from the
scene say three cars crowded with
! passengers and a diner were com
pletely demolished, together with two
! or three baggage cars. According to
| statements of tie survivors, the
Shriners from Buffalo, Rochester and
Reading. Pa, were among the great
est sufferers. Many of the dead are
SO badly scalded that they were I'M
recognizable. The wrecked train is
said to have been the Ismalian spe
cial. carrying Shriners from New York
and Pennsylvania.
Wheel Of Engine Breaks.
/ Lompoc. Cal. May IA terrible
wreck occurred Saturday afternoon
on the coast line of the Southern Pa
cific five miles south of Surf. in which
probably score OF passengers were
killed and IS or 20 more seriously In.
iured. The train was special load.
ed with Shriners who were on their
way from Los Angeles TO their homes
in the east
i While running at high speed
wheel of the engine broke and the 10
connective jumped the track and
turned over. The foar front cars of
the train followed 1t and were literally
smashed to pieces. Dead and injured
were thrown in every direction.
Passengers Extinguish Flames.
! The train caught fire Immediately.
but the FIRE was extinguished by pas
sengers of the two rear coaches, who
were uninjured. Cars we're hurled
over the engine and many of the pas.
sengers were burned and scalded to
death by escaping steam. Some were
mutilated beyond recognition The
first man TO reach Lompoc from the
wreck just before 8 o'clock said he
had counted 10 dead who had been
taken from the wreckage. A score
or more were terribly injured Many
others received less serious injuries.
Rescue Train Arrives.
The engineer and fireman were
both injured, but not fatally. The
wrecking train with physicians and
nurses arrived and the injured we're
taken to Santa Barbara and 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 Lompoc He had not
stopped to get the names of the dead
or injured.
Names Of the Dead.
San Francisco, May 12.--Reports
from the wreck of the Shriners' train
at Honda give the following list IT
dead
3. A. WATSON, Buffalo
Mrs. Fisher, Cleveland.
Miss Young. Cleveland.
Charles Lowing. Buffalo.
- Austin, tourist agent.
J. W. Nipple. Reading, Pa.
v. Stoffe, Reading
| Harry HendIe, Reading.
George Hagerman, Reading.
Harry Slotz, Reading.
Harry Miller, Reading.
t. Roth, Reading
| - Henry, Lebanon, o.
j. w. Cutter and wife, residence
not given.
Twenty-Five were severely injured.
eight or ten slightly Some OF the
seriously injured will probably die.
Special trains from Santa Barbara.
Lompoc and San Luis Obispo, with
doctors and nurses, have been sent
out. The most seriously injured were
sent to san Luis Obispo hospital.
Railroad officials say II is the worst
wreck ever had on the coast division.
Admitted at Railroad Offices.
Los Angeles May IL AT the offices
OF The Southern Pacific Saturday even.
ing u was admitted that advices had
been received indirectly from Lompoc
that the wreck on that line was serl.
ous and probably 25 people were
killed. and the wounded would bring
{ the casualties up to 40 According
to a dispatch from Santa Barbara,
members Of Inc shriners from Read.
ing. Pa. and 81 Par were aboard the
wrecked train.
shriners Leave for Home.
Los Angeles. Nav l2.-Delegates 10
the imperial council of The mystic
shriners began leaving Saturday
nornlHg for their homes shripore
from Now York Troy. Newark and