Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-06-11
SANTA f ORDERS
INVESTIGATION
Of WRECK
INJURED ALL MAKING
SATlSF FACTORY PROGRESS
Funeral of Unfortunate Fire
man to Occur Here This Aft
ernooni Engineer Green to Be
Buried at Las Vegas,

The Santa Fe wreck that occurred at
Domingo Friday morning is 20 have
thorough investigation. The orders
fer this investigation have been issued
from the office of General Superin-
tendent j. NJ Kurn, and they have
received the Endorsement of Superin-
tendent +. l., Myers OF Las Vegas The
| Investigation which win fix the re-
sponsb!llty for the disaster will be
held at Las Vegas and all employees
have been ordered to attend the In
vestigatlon. Both the superinteEdents
were soon on the ground after the
wreck General Superintendent Kurn
staying until late Friday night and
| coming in with the damaged equip
ment The work of removing the
wreckage has been going steadily on
since the disaster and in few days
| IL s expected that not a trace Of the
| disastrous collision between the limit
ed and the light engine will remain.
So far death has claimed but two.
who We're In the collision. The en-
gineer, A. w. Green, OF the light en-
gine and the fireman, Ray G.. Flowers
of the limited engine vino died OF his
injuries early yesterday morning.
AS far as could be learned the rest
OF the injured are getting along es
well as could be expected and all will
lnkely recover
one of the peculiar features OF the
wreck is that Miss BESSIE Wyatt of
Charles, H.. who was on her way to
be married in California, was on the
train with her trousseau of wedding
gowns packed In fourteen trunks. The
wreck will cause her to he delayed in
reaching her destination just about
twelve hours and viii hence delay the
wedding for day. 1t Is understood
. that the trousseau was somewhat dam
, aged In the collision and will have TO
be fixed up
The body of A. w. Green, the en-
glneer of the light engine who met his
!. death as result of the collision of
his engine with the limited train, was
taken to Las Vegas for burial yeater-
day accompanied by an escort Of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers,
iUIN Alit " 'ifA
Enginemen
Mrs Green. who was hidden good
bye at $40 Friday morning as she
: took her departure returned from Las
: Vegas on train | Friday night and
also accompanied the body back to
Las Vegas.
! Ray G.. Flowers the fireman of the
. limited engine, who succumbed to his
Injuries early yesterday morning in
ST. Josephs hospital was surrounded
at the time of his death by his father,
n. H. Flowers of Estancia. and his
brother Henry Flowers Of Albuquer-
que. The young fireman, who Is only
~ years of age made n game fight for
life and even up to the last minute
comforted his sorrowing relatives who
were expecting the worst, with the
thought that he would get Well.
Flowers has been running on the
New Mexico division of the Santa Fe
system for the past twelve months
spending about half his time in AL
: buquerque. The young man leaves be-
! side his father and brother who were
at his death bed, a sorrowng mother,
three sisters, and another brother. all
of whom with the exception of the
brother live in Estancia.
| The funeral of the unfortunate man
/, VIII be held from the undertaking
parlors Of Strong Brothers and will
be held under the auspices of the
= brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
= and Enginemen, who will conduct the
| p.rNigag al IA, nru in EutpxiaXy
cemetery. The young mans mother
: is so overcome with the shock of
her sons sudden death that she will
be unable to attend the funeral.
Since yesterday II has been dis
covered that Ray d. Hall the mail
clerk on the III fated train had four
y Of his ribs broken as a result of the
tumbllng around he received In lis
car at the time of the collision. Yes
terday after arriving at the postoffice
! with his mail he stated that he was
D all right. In fact he made the same
. statement to Miss Maude Hurford,
= the pluoky postoffice clerk of Fresno,
: Cal, who was the real heroine of the
wreck. when she anxiously inquired
= of him whether he was hurt. Think
: ing of the postal clerk first, all post
4 office people do at the time of a
wreck, she hurriedly made her way TO
/ the ear with what remedies she had
5 and asked Hall IL he were hurt, and
II she could do anything for him. He
; replied that he was all right She
then turned her attention to the 9TH
ers, and Hall continued his work. He
c stayed up until he had reached his
) home when he fell in dead faint
= and II was discovered that four of
his ribs were broken. At last re-
i ports he was resting easy.
I Before sundown Friday the
; wreeking crew had done such good
l. work that there seemed reason to
: believe the track would he cleared so
: that no train except No. which
: leaves Albuquerque at 6:O5 would be
9 delayed.
: The passengers injured and un-
= injured had been hurried to Albuquer-
c que few hours after the wreck and
r. late In the afternoon all that one could
# see was two immense masses OF iron
n aud steel, the twisted battered and
1t lmpotent locomotives lying In the
dust beside the track. The Pullman