The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-13
THIRTY ARE DEAD IN SHRINER WRECK Details of Disaster to Special Returning from Imperial
 Council. NAMES OF THE VICTIMS Train Travelling Crooked Track at a High Rate
 of Speed.
NAMES OF THE VICTIMS


 one dead and score injured tonight comprise the casualties of the wreck at Honda yesterday of the Ismalia spe- cial train of New York and Pennsyl- vania Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine, whc were returning from the annual meet ing of the imperial council of the An cient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Los Angeles.
 The rrain, carrying 145 Shriners and friends from Ismalia temple, Buffalo; Rajah temple, Reading Pa. and neigh boring cities, was rushing northward fifty miles an hour on the Southern Pacific coast line, when the locomotive struck defective switch at the siding at Honda The locomotive turned g somersault into the sand. The for ward coaches were crushed to debris and took fire The flames were SCOT extinguished by uninjured persons from the two rear coaches. As Honda is isolated it was not till late to-day that definite information could be col. lected. The bodies of twenty-five vic tims now lie in Santa Barbara and four others are at San Luis Oblspo The injured, many of whom are terri bly, hurt and some of whom may die are in two sanitariums at San Luis Obispo.
 The wreck occurred at 2:35 o'clock an hour and forty minutes after the train had left Santa Barbara. The statement that the train was making high speed when 1t struck the defective track is borne out by the fact that Il covered the sixty-one miles of crooked track from Santa Barbara to Honda in one hundred minutes. The locomo- tive in leaving the rails tore up the track, twisting the rails into fish hooks. The burning car half buried itself in the sand on the right side of the locomotive. It was smashed almost to kindling wood.
 The dining car, in which were thirty < two persons eating luncheon. fell di- rectly on the demolished locomotive Nearly every person in the dining cal was killed. Scores were scalded by steam escaping from disconnected pipes.
 The rear coaches damned against the first wreckage, pinning in those who might otherwise have escaped. Sev- eral imprisoned in the debris were roasted alive.
 Engineer Frank Champlain wa pitched with the cab twenty-five fee beyond the engine. He got up anC rali mile.1 seeking help before he dis covered that his arm was broken ant that he was severely scalded.
 Only two of the nine men of the din ing car crew are numbered among tn dead The remainder though coooeC Up in the narrow kitchen and pantry sustained only cuts and bruises. : Rajah Temple of Reading, Pa, occu pied the last car on the train and th ! dining car was thus filled almost en tirely with Reading people when tn wreck occurred.
 An instant after the smash those wh, were not incapacitated jumped iron the train. to render aid, bue they wer unable to do much beside extinguish tn fire, and they had to walt hours befor, relief arrived
 lMISs GOlIn w. AuClGL Ol DiAElctlll0il N. Y, was in the baggage car at tn time of the crash to rearrange he trunk Her body was driven througl the floor and the wrecked car had t be jacked up before the body could b. released.
 Mrs. Fred Greenwood of Binghamtoi with Mrs. Cutler also went down unde the tons of baggage and broken tim bers, but she was covered by an arch 0 trunks. When rescuers burrowed thei way to where the two women lay. Mrs Greenwood reached out and grasped tn fGot of one of the men and shouted "I'll not let go until you get me out!" Then scalding steam enveloped her and she was terribly burned. She wa rescued alive, however, and was among those taken to San Luis Obispo.
 When Miss Cora Young of Cleveland was taken from the shattered dlnins car, she was alive but frightfully injur ed,
 George Hagerman of Reading, Pa, refused the aid of his brother noble after they had dragged him, fatally hurt. from the wreck.
 T am dying he said; Ego help tht women"
 devote himself to literary work.
 Dr. Bacon was the compiler of foul hymn books, two entitled Psalms and Hymns of the Congregational Church, third Spiritual Congregationallsm' and another "The Church Book" He published two volumes privately en- titled, Church Papers" and History of the Vatican Council in '69," vol ume of sermons on "The Simplicity ol "What is in Christ" and recently a con cluding volume in a series, entitled "History of the American Churches, ' which summarized the proceeding vol umes. He published another brief work on '"Ehe Congregationalists.
 Dr. Bacon was early prominent ir liberal theology took very great deal of interest in civic affairs and was a writer for the magazines and other periodicals. Tn the year 1900 he was ar aggressive opponent of the policy oi imperialism and as a single elector was