The San Francisco call., 1908-07-05
SEAMEN PERFORM
GOOD RESCUE WORK
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top of me- I thought that / was going
to die and ] cried out in Finnish, oh,
God help me before ] am killed You
don't know how good ! felt when a man
saw me and spoke to me in my native
tongue. and said he would get out a
fellow countrywoman. In little
While more he had the wrecked seats
piled up off nc. Then we climbed out
over the smashed woodwork to the
door and they took me to the hospital"
The body of one man was still under
the smoker at midnight.
John NaggoliX. laborer from Santa
Cruz. is seriously injured internally.
He was on the Santa Cruz train.
SAYS IT WAS HORRIBLE
4 thought was going to die" he
said in describing his experience. when
the. engine struck the car l holered
as loud as I could. and other men yelled
as loud as / did. All, Dios! But it was
horrible There were two or three
women in the car also. Never will
forget how their voices sounded"
Fireman Herbert Drake of the
through train said concerning his ex-
perlence:
Il knew right away when we left the
rails. as ! could tell by the jolting OF
the engine. We We're going along at u
pretty good speed, as we had to make
a boat. I do not know how it came
about that we ran by the tower signal.
/ did not see the signal myself, and
did not know whether or not Berry saw
1T. II seems to me that the towernnan
should have held the Oakland local
and given us the right OF way.
thought for few seconds after we left
the rails that we would topple over
and was preparing to jump. l was
surprised that the engine stood UP at
all, after we went through the switch.
WITNESSES COLLISION
H. Fl. Skinner, employed as a bar
tender at William Sullivans Yosemite
saloon at the southwest corner of Web
ster and First streets, was standing in
the doorway of the saloon and was an
eye witness to the collision.
4 first had my attention attracted, -
said Skinner, by two toots OF a loco
motive whistle. / saw the Oakland
local coming off of the bridge and the
thing l observed was the through train
plowing along toward the saloon in a
great cloud of dust and smoke that al
most obscured the train. Next came an
awful crash and the engine OF the Oak
land local ran into the center Of the
smoking car, throwing it from the
track and smashing it in pieces.
WOMAN TELLS EXPERIENCE
Among those who were injured in the
crowded smoking car was Mrs. Amanda
Mannerberg. proprietor of the Sea Rock
hotel OF san Francisco. who received
sprains and slight injuries to the back.
There was a terrible crash which
l thought at first was caused by the
explosion of a lot of frecrackers, but
I knew that something awful had hap
pened.' said Mrs. Mannerberg. Il was
hurled back in my seat with such force
that / lost consciousness. If l had not
been stout. feel certain that 1 would
have been injured internally, and 1
thank God that l was saved.
When I came to in the midst of
those terrible scenes thought l would
lose my mind. Dead and injured people
were lying all about me, caught In
the wreckage. / can't bear to talk
about it."
c. T. Terret, who was shaken up
badly, told his story:
1T happened with such suddenness,"
he said, that 1 didn't Know what to
think. I was dazed at first. ! don't
know who was to blame for the acci-
dent.
"Of all those who were in the train,
don't think any of them at first real
lied what had happened. l know did
not But 1t was not long before the
screams Of the injured and the torn up
car made the reality terribly apparent"
Il was in the San Jose train" said
Ely Jurovick. "All l remember was a
great jolt and l fell on my hands and
knees. The fall stunned me and when
recovered my senses saw men and
women PROSTATE on the floor of the
car. Many were cut and bleeding. Sew
eral Were dying. We had no way of
protecting ourselves. The smash came
so suddenly that it would be impos-
sible for me to explain it,