The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13
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body was driven literally through the
| floor, and the wrecked car had to be
| lacked up before it could be released.
| Mrs. Fred Grummond, of Bingham
| ton was with her and also went down
under the tons of baggage and broken
| timbers.
When rescuers burrowed their way
| to where the two women lay, the liv-
ing one reached out and grasped the
feet of one of the men and shouted:
I'll not let go until you get me
OUT
veloped her, and she was terribly
burned. She was rescued alive, how
ever, and was among those taken to
San Luis Obispo.
When Miss Cora Young, of CIeve-
land, was taken from the shattered
diner. she was still living, but fright
fully injured. Her entire body had
been showered with boiling water and
corset the imprint of the stays was
left deep in the scalded flesh.
Many Heroic Deeds.
There were countless deeds of cour-
age and heroic self-a bnegation. A. D.
Hagerman, of Reading, refused the
aid of his brother mobiles after they
had dragged him, fatally hurt, from
the wreck.
II am dying he said; ''go help the
women
Sander Deabald. of Cleveland, worked
heroically, but undTailing to- save the
lives of two women pinioned beneath
the diner. The flames had broken out
amid the Wreckage and were burning
all about the PROSTATE forms of the
women. Burrowing his way down into
the smoldering, splintered work, Dea-
bald, from a coach connection. spout
ed water from an ada cent tank and
extinguished the flames. Then he
reached down and after cutting away
the broken timber that held her fast,
took Mrs. William w. Essick, of Read
ing, from the ruins. She was begging
piteously for relief when DeaboId
reached her. AS he lifted her from
the wreckage a stream of boiling wa
ter poured over her, soaring her body
terribly. Women passengers sought
TO remove her upper garments but
tainted when the flesh came off with
the clothing. She expired after a few
minutes after being carried out on the
sand, and Deabold was forced back
into the sleeper, unable to longer en-
dure the narrowing sight on every
hand.
TT was the most horrible sight
ever laid eyes on he said. when
ever 1 touched her the prints of the
fingers remained in the almost fluid
fiesh''
Henry ]. Fischer. of Cleveland
went under protest with his wife and
daughter. Miss Cora Young. and Mrs.
John w. Cutler to the baggage car.
The three women were killed and he
escaped almost unframed from the
wreck of the baggage car. Today,
wandering dazedly about the streets,
Fischer asks mournfully: "How did
escape: why should they die and I
live?"
The Dead.
Following is a complete list of the
dead:
]. DOUGLAS NIPPLE. Reading. Pa
H. K. GITTLEMAN, Reading
A. L. ROTH, Reading.
GILBERT STEFF. Reading
w. D. WATSON 3uffalc. y. Y
]. NJ. CUTTER. Binghamton. N. Y.
CHAS. NJ. LOWING, pullman con-
ductor, Buffalo, N. Y.
c. w. AUSTIN. New York agent for
McCann's Tourist company, New York.
JOHN LACEY, negro dining car
waiter.
r. w. SWEENEY, negro lining car
MRS. VIM. w. EssIcK. Reading.
MRS. JOHN W. CUTTER, Bingham |
MRS. HENRY ]. FISHER, Cleve-
land.
MISS CORA YOUNG. Cleveland
MRS. BRUMBACH, Reading.
GEO. F. HAGERMAN, Reading.
BENJAMIN STOLTz, Reading.
HARRISON HENDEL, Reading.
o. F. KAUFMAN, Reading.
HARRY MILLER, Reading.
s. S. SNYDER, Reading.
MRS. S. S. SNYDER, Reading.
RICHARD ESSICK, Reading.
THOS. J. PRUNLAUCH, Reading.
MISS STOLTZ, Reading.
L N. ELLENBOGEN, Allentown, Pa.
HOWARD MOVER, Hazelton, Pa
ALONZO B. ROGERS, ST. Paul. Pull
man conductor.
MRS. MARY c. WINS. Reading
MRS. L. w. ELLENBOGEN, Allen
town, Pa.
The Injured.
Following is a list of the injured:
S. A. Bickford. brakeman, of San
Francisco, fatally injured.
r. Fountain brakeman. back in
jured and the lower part of his body
paralyzed. Fountain crawled 100
yards to flag the second section follow
ing, and later was picked up and con-
veyed to this city.
w. H. Boyd of Reading. Pa, badly
scalded.
Martin L. Henry. Shanokin. Pa.
injured spine and severely scalded.
H. R. Lee, Orwigsburg. Pa, face
acerated, both hips cut and fractured
eg.
J. Logan. Buffalo. n. Y. leg frac- |