The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-08-09
Passenger Train, Running at
High Speed, Hits Con-
StruCtiOn Car.
RESCUERS CAUSE
SEVERAL DEATHS
In Relieving Sufferers Volunteers
Strike Many Pinned IN
the Debris.

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug g--Fourteen
persons are known 10 be dead and
several are missing today as the result
OF a collision on the Northwestern Pa
cifc railway at IenacIO. More than a
score Of passengers and trainmen were
injured half q dozen Of them fatally
Several of those killed were the vic
Tins Of axes and picks welded by res
cUers-
Running at high speed, local pas
senEer train bound for Santa Rosa
crashed into a construction train last
night The first cars OF the local wera
telescoped and the WreckaEe piled up
along the track 1t caught FIRE al
places and the flames were controlled
with difficulty
The preliminary Investigation tended
10 show that a misunderstanding OF
orders caused the disaster. which IS
one Of the worst that has occurred on
the Pacific coast IN years The known
dead.
". A. BANGS, Rockport, Cal
HERMAN BOGAN. santa Rosa Cal
HENRY W EMERSON. messenger,
Of PetaIunla-
PINCUS LEVIN Of Levin Tannery
Company, santa Rosa. Cal.
". A. NELSON. n BIackpOinL
W A. HOLMAN, messenger, Of Pc
taluma
GEORGF RILEY, capitalist. Of santa
Rosa. Cal
T. ". RICHARDSON. PeteIuma.
c. CORIVOLENE-
JOIN WILKINSON. guard at san
Quentin
A NJ. BANGS, Of Rockford Musical
Company
one unidentified man al san Rafael.
supposed 10 be X Mclean, OF Glen
Ellen
UniGertsfed man
FRED q. LAlIsI. former purser OF
steamer sold
Locomotives CrumPled-
The trains met hoaG-on. The giant
locomotives were crumpled I'D like tin
and the great tanks holding their fuel
they wee oil Buners-burst The wreck
axe become saturated with crude petro-
1eum. crh,tu-uE the danger from H-e-
The frSt reports OF she ac-idenI paced
the number of dead al thirty Within
a short time a relief train was hurried
from san Rafael. the southern terminus
Of tire If-tn on the Marion county shore
across che Golden Gate and on the north
side 4 -he bav from san Francisco.
Wo-d was flashed 20 san FTanCi~c0 al
80 -1l an emergency stan OF doctors
and nurses WIS gathered. 90 be- dis
PATCHED bv special boat and train 90 the
scene 0f the wreck. about thirty uiivs
to the north
Dead In Smoker.
.-he greatest loss of life occurred in the
smoker, the passenger car nearest to the
snefne- The women and children pas
<enzers were I'm the last three coaches
znd tn this circumstance is due their es-
cane
so terrific was the impact that seats
f1 the day coaches were torn from their
fastening. being wHirled about and
piled on rou of the passengers From
the rC4ntTv side about and from IEua-
CiO- CORDS Of TcScueTS was obtained
within a short time Under the leader
tise wreck with more force tuau dis
crsti-n
Struck By RescueTs.
p we ftfm lamp of b0ufres and the
blazing debris, they went TO the wreck
age with ~rowbars, axes and picks
Several Of ts0se who had been trapped
ar known lo have been struck by the
Implements In some cases examination
OF bodies showed that instant death had
been caused by these blows Again and
aEaIu many Of them begged to be put
out OF their misery.
Inc cars were crowded with Red Men
on their way 10 Santa Rosa 90 attend
the State convention Of their order Tie
delegates took "a lea6inc par IN the
rescue work and iu SummouIuE h=Iu
from IEuaclu, the nearest point. which
vas two miles from the scene