The Winslow mail., 1923-07-06
SANTAFE NO. 9
DERAILED At
SAN DOMINGO
four KILLED

Train No. 8, known as the "Nava-
Jo, was wrecked Tuesday night at
1l:45, thirty miles east of Albuquer-
que near small station called Do
mingO. The train, drawn by two en-
glnes, left Lamy, ~ NJ, thirty minu-
tes late according to reports and
was travelling at terrific rate Of
speed when the accident happened.
The speed is not definitely known
but the estimates give it all the way
from so to rs miles an hour. Fire
man Earl Hall, who was fatally in
jured said to passenger who reach
ed him soon after the train was
wrecked: 1--WE were going SO fast
that 1 was afraid We weremaking
so much speed that l could feel the
train wobble from side to side Then
the engine seemed to be lifted up
and down in the tracks. l put my
head out of the left cab window.
Suddenly the wheels of our second
engine reared 1t lifted three feet
from the tracks. When the wheels
came down they hit the ties. We
rolled" Hall later died on the res
cue train before it reached Albu-
querque. The passengers corrobor-
ated the fremans statements with
regard to the speed of the train.
Many of them could not sleep for
the lurching of the train and some
did not even go to bed because of it.
Just why the train should have been
making such terrific and dangerous
speed on a crooked track will never
be know for both engineers were
buried beneath the wreckage of their
engines, and both firemen died shor-
tly after the wreck from their inju-
ries
1t seems, from reports, that only
about twenty-seven of the passengers
were injured and none of these very
seriously. 1t is wonder that many
were not killed. But this is partly
explained by the fact that the train
broke into two sections. When the
engines jumped the track the force
was so great that it broke the coupl-
ing between the smoker and the
coach behind. These forward cars
jumped the track and the baggage
car was thrown across the tracks
over the derailed engines. The Sc
cond section of the train that had
become detached from the forward
part of the train remained on the
track and ran forward striking the
across the tracks and
stopped This saved most of the
passengers from serious injury and
doubtless many of them from death.
Relief work was started as quick
y as possible after the wreck and
hose who were injured were given
first aid. Miss Mary Alice Cody,
government nurse, of Phoenix, Ariz-
)na, knocked senseless, herself, soon
recovered and rendered wonderful
service in relieving the injured. Miss
Leila Whitehorn, daughter of the
agent at Domingo, hurried to the
scene of the wreck and also worked
neroically in the relief work, Pull
nan conductor, Anderson, worked
although injured in the
hand and foot, and refused aid for
himself until all the passengers had
Oeen cared for. The Indians, who
lived near the scene of the wreck
brought their blankets and rendered
such aid as they could A relief
rain arrived from Albuquerque alb
)ut $3.50 a. m. and the doctors took
charge of the relief work The in
ured were taken back to Albuquer-
lue and placed in the hospital there.
Many of them were soon able to leave
he hospital and resume their inter
'upted journey.
Both engine crews lived at Las
Vegas, N. NJ. The two engineers, G.
= Roberts and Joe Blevins, were
,ver fifty years of age and had both
)een with the Santa Fe for many
,ears. The firemen Earl Hall and
Walter H Crews, were younger men
md had not been with the road so
ong. All four men had families.
The injured passengers were from
,arious parts of the country, but it
eems none were from Winslow