El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-09-25
VENTEEN
INJURED IN
SANTA f
WRECK
Number One Collides
With Light Engine
South Of Lamy
ENGINEER AND
FIREMAN JUMP
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Confused Orders Given
AS Explanation of
Train Disaster

Seventeen persons were injured
only one, perhaps seriously-shortIy
after 2 -o'clock last night when train
No. I Of the A. T. & s. r. railway ran
Into a log train engine three miles this
side Of Kennedy and smashed the
light engine into junk. There were az
least two Santa Feans on the train,
Judge Reed HoIloman and Chester Nj.
Wells, but neither was injured.
THE INJURED.
The list Of the injured follows:
A. M. Sulier, engineer of the log
train engine, injured, perhaps intern
ally.
J.. Cook, Of Santa RE, fireman Of the
log train engine, head cut, wrist, knee
and ankle bruised.
Passengers on No. 1:
Mrs. F. c. Madden, Fl Paso, frac-
tured ankle.
onesimo chaves, Demine; cut over
right eye.
Mrs. Francis Whitworth, Los An
geles, bruised right leg.
Mrs. Margaret Wilcox, Los Angeles;
bruised head.
Mrs. Mary cIoonan, Los Angeles,
bruised head.
E. 4. cushman, san Diego, chest
bruised slightly.
Mrs. Fred FurtwangIes, jackson,
Mich, injured back.
Mrs. S. 3. Wright, Santa Barbara,
Calf, sprained left ankle.
Miss Edna Wright, Santa Barbara,
daughter Of Mrs, S. 3. Wright, bruised
back.
Miss Alice Wright, Santa Barbara,
Calf, daughter Of Mrs. S. B. Wright;
bruised back.
Mrs. n. i. Hirsch, Buffalo. NJ. N,
bruised back and head.
Mrs. Simon Kiarpperman, Buffalo,
N. n, bruised head.
Simon Kiarpperman, Buffalo, cut on
upper lip.
Miss Myra w. saaw. Fort McPher-
son. Ca, broken nose.
Miss Johanna Olsen, Pasadena,
Calf, broken rib and bruised back.
CONFUSED ORDERS
EXPLANATION GIVEN.
Confusion over orders is one explain
nation offered why Engineer Sulier
had his engine. which was running
light, on the track in the way of No.
I which was 40 minutes or more late,
AT all events when the engineer
saw No. / coming, he made efforts to
bring his engine to a standstiH, and
nearly succeeded, it is said, when he
and Firemen Cook jumped. Rumors
that the light engine was running also
40 miles an hour were denied today.
Fireman Cook had a narrow escape
from a horrible death ais he fell into
a ditch no many feet from the
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cold water from the tender but the.
escaping steam, when the engine blew
up, did not touch him.
injured Taken to Lamy.
An engine was rushed from Lamy to
the scene Of the accident and brought
the first class Pullmans and tourist
~sleepers with the injured as well as
with the other passengers to Lamy
where they remained all night Med
ical attention was given the injured
at Lamy and they remained in the
Pullmans until the train left for Los
Angeles today.
Five or six cars OF No /, which
were derailed. were express and bag
gage cars, otherwise the accident
would probably have proved more se-I
rious.
Most of the passengers who were
hurt received their injuries BY being
violently thrown about in the cars,
One man stated that he was standing
in the Pullman facing the engine and
was thrown several yards forward,
landing on his head.
Judge Holloman Of Santa Re, came
up on the stub which arrived here at
1 a. M. today, but Chester Wells, who
was in the smoker OF No. / on a sid
ing discussing the accident, was left
at Lamy and did not get back home
until later In the day.
There were two Las Vegas ply
sicians and four army nurses on the
train. Miss Shaw and MISS Olsen
nurses and 1t was remarked that
the nurses seemed to be more Sc
riousIy injured than the other pas.
sengers.
Train No. 4 Of the a. r. g. S. RI,
railway, was wrecked about GAS p.
m. yesterday when II struck an ZEN
CINE, running light, three miles this
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