The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-20
Two lnterurban Trains Load
ed With Passengers Come
Together Head-on One
Mile From Vallejo, Cal.
VICTIMS BURIED IN
PILE OF WRECkAGE
Crash Occurs on Straight
Stretch of Track; Rigid In
quiry to Be Instituted to
Place the Blame.
BY International News Service.

BY International News Service
VALLEJO, Cal, June lo,-Twelvo
persons were killed and twenty five were
injured, several fatally, today in a
head-on collision between two interur-
ban electric trains of the San Fran
cisco, Napa C Calistoga electric line
one mile north Of here. The trains,
travelling at high speed, came together
with terrific crash and telescoped
In an instant the two trains were re.
duced to a high heap Of wreckage.
Passengers were heaped about and bur
led beneath the pile of splintered wood
and twisted steel
The Dead.
II. g. HUNT, San Francisco.
EUGENE HUFF, motorman, Vallejo.
GEORGE L. HoLzWoRTH, San
Francisco.
S. z. JoWEwSKI, San Francisco.
CHRIS KOCH, San Francisco.
MISS GAIL, San Francisco.
J. F. GRABEL, Vallejo.
E. o. JUDD, Vallejo.
P. HERBERT, Napa,
AIPHoNsE LALLEMENT, Napa.
o. M'QUA1DE, San Diego.
S. H. DAYTON, residence unknown
UNIDENTIFIED MAN.
The inbound train was in charge OF
William Laurez, motorman, and b, T..
Cation, conductor. Eugene Huff was
at the motor Of the outbound train
With G. Richards as conductor.
Work of Rescue.
The work of extricating the passcn-
gers, some dead, and others severely in
jured, was begun at once and continued
until late this afternoon. Owing to the
manner in which both trains telescoped
it Was extremely difficult to extricats
some of the unfortunate men and wom-
en-. who were buried deep In the wreck
age.
The train from Vallejo to Napa, con-
sisting Of two cars, was crowded with
passengers from the steamer Monti-
cello, San Francisco, besides a number
Of passengers from this city. The car
from Napa was well filled with passen-
gers, number of whom were coming
to Vallejo to take the boat to San
Francisco.
Met on Straight Track.
The crash came on straight stretch
of track at One-Mile house. Mistaken
signals are said to have been RESPONSE
BILE for the wreck. Officials Of the com.
pany announce an investigation TO lay
the blame just as soon as all the In
iured are accounted for.
It was not until the trains were with
IN q few hundred feet Of each other
that the motormen realized that col
liaion could not be averted. Air brakes
wers applied but the momentum was toe
great.
There was a crash that sent passen
gers from their seats beneath a shower
Of splintered glass. The force Of the
impact telescoped the first two front
coaches. Passengers in these two front
cars were the most severely hurt ano
il was from these cars that most Of the
dead were taken.
Wreckage Piled High.
The other cars were tossed from thu
track and piled high one over the other
Beneath this heap Of wreckage lay th'
passengers. Mingled .groans and crie
added TO the horror Of the situation,
The track for many yards arount
was strewn with debris. Those wht
had escaped more serious injury quick
" went to the assistance of @ their les les
3oined in the work Of eItrioating th'
J wounded.
MURDERERS ARE GIVEN
/, ~NYrEn FACE 0E TEE