Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-09
TRAINS COLLIDE;
13 ARE KILLED,
TWELVE INJURED
Disastrous Wreck Occurs at Ig-
naCio on Line of Northwest
ern Pacific Railway
ANGELENOS AMONG INJURED
Coaches TeIesCoped by Terrific
Impact, and Victims Are
Killed in Their Seats
ANGELENoS AMONG INJURED
ASSOCIATED Press)

TGNACIO, Cal, Aug. 8.-Thirteen
persons were killed and at least twelve
injured, several of them badly, tonight
when passenger train No. 6 on the
Northwestern Pacific railroad, running
between San Francisco and Santa
Rosa, met in a head-on collision with
a work train mile and half south
of this place.
The known dead are:
w. G. POHLMAN, Petaluma.
GEORGE RILEY, SR, Petaluma.
HENRY w. EMERSON, Petaluma.
M. A. BANGS, Rockford Musical
union.
WILLIAM LITTAKER, Santa Rosa,
engineer special.
JOHN WILKINSON, guard at San
Quentin prison.
HERMAN BOYER, Santa Rosa
w. NELSON, San Rafael.
P. LEVIN, Santa Rosa.
TWO UNIDENTIFIED BODIES.
The seriously injured are:
A c. Burnham, 1850 Curran street,
Los Angeles.
w. ]. Cain, Black Point.
Captain r. C. Won Tagen, schooner
Theodore Roosevelt, Alameda.
w. F. Bachelor, Petaluma.
E. o. Van Pelt, 1917 South Olive
street, Los Angeles.
Alexander Shera, conductor passen-
ger train.
B. Speaker, engineer passenger train.
Edward Reynolds, fireman special.
DR.. J. H. McCloud, Santa Rosa.
J. w. Watson Santa Rosa.
Ernest Spengenberger, Santa Rosa.
Jack Page, Santa Rosa.
A w. Agnew, Petaluma.
- Richardson, Petaluma.
PHYSICIANS REACH WRECK
Within two hours after the wreck
occurred w. A. Palmer, general man
ager of the road; J. H. Hunter, super
intendent, and corps OF physicians
| from San Francisco and the bay towns
| were working at the wreck
| The engines met with such force that
| the engine of the work train, which
| consisted of a caboose and two llght
| hatcars, shunted the passenger engine
to one side and plowed part way
| through the baggage car, causing the
ba aggage car and the smoker to tel
escope partly Nearly all the men IN
the forward part of the smoker were
killed, and all in that car were IN
jured in some manner.
Relief trains were rushed from both
ends of the scene of the wreck. Some
of the dead were brought to San Rafael
and some to Santa Rosa. The injured
were taken in various directions, max
ing the list of names difficult to OBJ
tain. 80 A..
owing to the way in which the
coaches were piled the work of rescue
was difficult, and at midnight there
were bodies still in the Wreckage. IL
was said it would be impossible to get
all of the bodies out before morning.
The majority of those injured were
riding in the smoking car of the pas
senger train. They were residents or
Petaluma. Santa Rosa and other near
bv towns and several, 1T is reported,
were delegates to the state convention
of Red Men, which meets at Santa
Rosa tomorrow.
TRAINS CRASH AT CURVE
The wreck occurred at curve
mile and a half south OF TINS place.
The passenger train was running 1orty
miles an hour and the special, COM
posed of an engine and caooose' was
also going at a fair speed
1t is a mystery as yet how the work
train happened to be in the path of the
regular evening train. AT the once
Of the dispatcher of the Northwestern
Pacific it was said one of the conduc-
tors had made a mistake in his or
ders and failed to take a siding.
Suddenly the passengers were Jerked
by the quick shutting down of the
brakes and at the same time there
came a terrific impact and the sound
of escaping steam The two engines
had plunged into each others throats
and the passenger trains weight
crushed the baggage car and the smo-
ker together so that two-th1rds or the
smoker was telescoped. The engines
were on end, snarling.
When the dazed passengers made
their way out of the three coaches
which were unharmed, they found
nathetic scene 1t was light enough
to see plainly. From the huddled
smoking car came shrieks and groans,
and the waving of bloodstained arms.
n seemed as though the passengers
hot
had been caught in a sitting posi-
ton and those who were not killed
were pinned in so by the weight over
their legs that they were unable TO
help themselves or their neighbors in
misfortune.
A few men made their way out of
the panic stricken throng to the for
ward end of the smoker, where the
greatest damage had been done. They
had no tools, but they tried by unaided
strength to pull away windows and
iunbled timbers. In that mass of
wood and flesh, however, there was
little movement.
DEAD PASSENGER IN SMOKER
Work on the rear half of the smoker
was easier. Some of the rescuers scat
tered to nearby bouses to telephone for
help, while others sought to get the In
jured out of the wreck. One man was
lying at the side of the track with his
head gone. Another man was SlttlhS
in window of the smoker dead, an
expression OF mingled wonder and pain
on his face. The passenger, young
man named Emerson, was found dead.
Engineer Reynolds of the passenger
was injured, and a quick examination
of the wreck of the freight cab showed
the dead bodies of. the engineer and
fireman.
f. A. Myers of Petaluma was one OF
the passengers He was in a rear
coach and was unharmed. He said that
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