The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 11, 1899, Page 1

GIVEN AWAY... | With each cash WANT ADVERTISEMENT or- | dered in NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL a MAGNIFI- | CENT PORTRAIT OF ADMI DEWEY, {he Library. ¢ With each cash WANT ADVERTISEMENT or ‘, dered in NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL a MAGNIFI- 1 CENT PORTRAIT OF ADMIRAL DEWEY, printed in ten colors, size 14x21 inches, ready for framing. \ + SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1899, PRICE KFIVE CENT W0 KILLED; | | \ | | | | r SRRl ' THIRTEEN |y i = ‘ INJURED £, Crowded Lpecml Runs Imm; a Construction Train “ at Newman. o o T AT PTDT . SLEEPER TELESCOPED ¢ £ T | @ » sengers on the Way to the Edu- | * 4% cational Convention Vietims \? \ of the Disaster. i. P . Spectal tch to The Call. ‘ ® There seems to be even /ess!‘ than the usual excuse for the dis- ; " astrous train wreck on the South- |+ ern Pacific on Monday morning. !? A special, carrying delegates to | ® the meeting of the National Edu- cational Association, sent out by the Burlington riad, but having ? the right of way, crashed into a @ freight train on the main line at a | 2 regular station—a train which by | + all the rules of railroading, and . apparently by its orders, should e have been safe on a s:d/ng ten ’. m.les away. This was a gross| , blunder, 11 ging or in recewing > orders. 0 Worse even than this, in making | + up the special the Southern Pacific operaiing department vio/ated the oldest rule of railroading by put- | o \ 1ing a light tourst slecper next|® to the engine without the cusiom- 1t ary protection of a bagguge car o to shield the sleeper in case of @ Just such an accident as this. ; L When the collision came, death to + some of those in the sleepsr was mnevitable. The tender lccomotive, with the force of the whole momentum of the moving train, was driven back fn*‘auqh the toursst It 1s hittle short of | : marvelous that there more ratalities. car. were no pouri 1d | they same the it by t who ng The Jusly escaped with | mentar 2+ 9+0*0°0*9*9*P°9°060°0°0°0+0°0°®°0 @ and se t combination to es and rer visted iron of the t THE TRAINS IN THE CRASH OF DEATH. , »m holes in could to others time and wa ¢ the C r gers of the other ¢ been badly shaken up, furr The splinters | wo coaches on | train were blazing flames were licking up BERTH 14 YIHERE MRS THOMAS coped car, and twen- | the woodwork in the engine and mo- v threatening to fasten on the LIVES LOST IN A TRAIN WR 99009 4HOW THE TOURIST CAR WAS TELESCOPED From a Photograph Taken for The Call on the Scene. 9+ 0+ 0009+ 0+ 0*0+-0+90* 0+ 00+ 0 0" O+ 0+0+@+9+0+0+04+0+0 9 +0+90°0°0°0°0°0°0+0+0+0:0:0+0+0+0+9 : -89 0 © 00 0 0 e 0@ GROSS CARELESSNESS ++ @+ P+ 0+ O+ 9* O+ 0 +8 he special's engine ploughed half vay through the freight train’s last car and the force behind lifted the engine and hurled it over on its side. gineer R. B. Allen and Fireman W. . Creigh at this moment jumped from their stations and were uninjured. The condition of the station lights is causing much comment. Several of telesc d sleeper, in which it was sup- | wedged in between the tender and the | Y number of killed were piled roof of their car. They were extricated 1, without much difficulty. Miss Edna The illumination in the sky brought | 1 was cut out of another berth out the volunteér Fire Department of | with a saw. Newman and the men battled bravely, | In lower 13 and 14 the a 1 e train ham nd fully | upon the bodies of Mrs recovered passengers, against the on- | Miss Harr a young teach coming flame but not held by any of the A new alarm was added by the dis-|timbers. 7T were taken out and covery that a tank car on a sidetrack | to the undertaking parlors of ,Charles in a few feet of the blazing wreck | Schank. An examination of Mrs. | full of oil and would probably ex- | Thomas showed that her neck had been at any minute broken by the end of the tender being scantily 1 who | forced into the berth. Miss Ha h been rescued or ir way | is believed, died of fright or by smoke | out of the telescoped sleeper were so|asphyxiation. He: was lac terrified at the possibility of such an|but not seriously e was occurrence that they scampered, hat= . Thomas about 57. ind barefooted, many of Jn]'(ll people en to the as they could get L wher were cared ilroad’s ons, Dr. Armist T of the occupants of <. Dowle and Stratton. 1t this ti »wed that | While all of the unfortunates com- were not accounted for, | plained of various pains and aches. the and the s went to work to get | icians state they could not find any them out, convineced t four or | serious injuries, bruises, Jace five dead bodies would be found. Faint | tions and sprains being the majority of | cries from the sleeper gave indications | the aflments. that or or two of the missing might | daylight before the fl:”l’lf"‘ be saved. were extinguished and not till they had Axes were used on the top of the| gevoured two cars and all thé wood sleeper nearest the tender and the|work on the engine. searchers came upon Miss White,| Of the accident but one story is told daughter of Mrs. Lena Thomas, and|here. The special was coming up the Miss May Oliver, both of whom were | valley at the rate of forty miles an | hour. Opposite the station on the main | track stood the combination freight | i :rnlivn its .ong(inv'h:\r(l n],.- \w:\]tvrr‘ lanl:t. -BERTH (3 } | hanietoomeal iR Hhiion aenarnitont WHERE M 1SS ANRIE RRRRIS @ shux\m]nlr;m white, which means “clear : YOAS KILLED ¢ | track.” The engineer of the special : : @ | gave the customary two long and two ! - + | short blasts of the whistle, and seeing : @ | the white light kept right on. Sudden- H o | 1y he spied the stationary train, the air 2 @ | hrakes were applied, the lever was re- 4 | versed, but the speed was so great that nothing could stop the special and a crash followed. | | | those who were out at the time of the | ; collision state that when the freight | train pulled in it was given the white | light on the main track to indicate that everything was clear on these rails. When the special’'s whistle for sig nals was heard -2 glance in the direc tion of the station showed that the white light for an open and clear track still shone brightly, and Watchman J. | H. Madden remarked: “I knew that those two trains were going to get mixed up and somebody get hurt.” Station Master Edgar Hartwell was questioned as to the condition of these signai lighte, but he declined to discuss thedsccldent or any of its features. sal | taken | hour, | ( Hsl of the 8+ 8+ 8B+ @° 9+ @+ B+ 0 *@*9°0°0°0:0°0+90* 0+0+€°6°€*0°0*0°6°@°0°6°8°0°C°0*0*> 0+0+0:9-0+0+0+8+0 “The station and if there is 3 those in charge of the port will be made to to no one else.” He declined to even state whether or not the red 1 t should have been di played with a freight train on the main track and a through special due at any moment. If the story a plumber, and Frank Homer, some one disobeyed or failed to under- stand ord Both reached the wreck soon aft he crash, and near the over- E s were out correct, | My superiors and told by Ben Livingston, be true, turned engine one found a paper, the order to the engineer of the excursion train. In substance it was an instruc- tion for him to the freight train | at Ingomar, eight or nine miles ahead, the freight train being instructed to.go as to let the sp al The me order, so the men say mentioned other trains to be pz during the night and where they would turn out to let the excursion train g0 by. Railroad men subsequently got hold of the engineer's orders. One of the most remarkable escapes | from death among the many was that | of Calvin Bullock, the porter. He went to the front platform for a preath of fresh alr and was obliged to grasp the railing when the air brakes were put on. The shock of the first impact threw porter clear off the | cars and high into the air. He landed | upon a siding so pas: | all in a heap just outside of the danger line and su ned only a few sprains and bruis The Coroner came from Modesto and | had the bodies of the victims viewed by | a jury. The inquest will be. held on Monday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. | The injured left for San Francisco. 1 . THRILLING STOR. ES TOLD BY SURVIVORS Awakered Sudden/y, They Thought | Ther Tram Had Falen } Through a Br.dge. i | Nineteen of the survivors of the South- i -up at Newman, Stan- arrived In the city last o'clock in care of an agent | . Laine and Arms | of Newman accompanied them. They were to the Grand Hotel, and for an while they were being registered the hotel office was crowded with them- | selves and their belongings. It did not take the knowledge that the | night ¢ of the company. party had been wrecked to make it plain that its members had been through a terrible experience. Not one of them that | did not look tired and worn out, the ladies | particularly showing the effects of their | thrilling night experience. Nope of them | were badly Injured, but all were more | or less bruised and suffered from shock. One or two of the ladies were swathed In bandages and all were cov- ered with the marks of travel. Several ladies, who had lost part of thelr cloth- | ter, Miss Bertha Baker, | them serious | who has a bad gash on her forehead; Miss | the floors | locomotive tender, ‘0 @° 09060+ 0°9°0+0°2°0°*0° 0 LR R RN Rl Rl Ral Rl Rt R R ] ing in the smash-up, had been kindly sup- plied with ¢ by the more fortunate male members of the party and they cut a rather rakish appearance in the nents of masculinity, which large which there w the offic bore plenty of tes ¥ to the force of the collision and the flood of water that had bLl‘l\ poured in upon the still sleepinz | efs after the coming together of | gar- - | | laid quantity ns | The survivors, with Mrs. Thomas and s Harris, who were killed, and M A. Abbott, who remained behind, m: up the twenty-two occupants of the first | car of the special, which w; coped | of the Their . Miss 1p, Mi Morehous Atwood, Sarah 8 L. Mor Winthrop, Mass.; Maria W dell, Cora C. Harlow, B Miss Wehmiller. Louis York; Mrs. Abbott, Sallie Smith, St. Louis; 2 Sadle ‘Shat- Hampton, Towa; Miss Ida Bartlemay, Buffington, Ind. The injured among this party, none of y, are: Miss Bdna English, Oliver, Mrs. Morehouse, daughter of Mrs. Thomas, and Robert B. Mills, a banker of Lake Preston, S. D., who jolned the fll fated special at Salt Lake City. All of them told the same story of the wreck, that threw them out or jammed them In their berths, extin- guished the lights in the cars and flooded with water from the tender. They were all occupants of berths on the first car of the nine that made up the special, which had not the usual baggage :ar buffer between it and the engine. The officials of the Southern Pacific Company Miss White, profess to belleve that the absence of this | baggage car made no difference as to the results of the wreck, but they will have a |'hard time convincing the passengers of that fact. They believe firmly, and it | seems to stand to reason, hwn a baggage car between the first coach and the engine Mrs. Thomas and Miss Harris would not have been killed. Mrs. Thomas occupied the berth num- bered lower 14 on the first coach. In up- per 14 was her daughter, Miss White. In lower 13, just opposite, were Miss Addie Harris and Miss Oliver. The berth above them was unoccupled. These berths were in the front end of the car, next to the and how any of the occupants escaped with their lives is little short of a miracle. The neck of Mrs. Thomas was broken and her death must nave been instantaneous. Miss Harris’ body when taken out of the wreck showed no wounds, and it was supposed for a time in the excitement that she had died | of the shock. The other occupants of the car are positive now that she was asphyx- fated from the smoke that rolled into the car from the burning coaches and engine ahead. Her features were badly distorted and it is certain that she must have died an awful and a lingering death. The escape of Miss White and Miss Oliver is nothing short of wonderful and cannot be accounted for. As it was, Miss White was unable to extricate herself when help arrived and the lights were lit, | cut ‘out from the wrec that had there | and it was necessary to use axes to get]) ECK DUE TO THE DEAD. MRS. LENA THOMAS, Se- neca Falls, N. Y. MISS ADDIE HARRIS, principal of the Madison School, St. Louis, Mo. THE INJURED (none of them seriously) are : MISS MAY OLIVER, a avenue, St. Louis, back and ankle sprained. MISS ED2 GLISH, Washington avenue, St. head cut. MRS. CLARA MOREHOUSE 211 Upton avenue, Battle Creek, Mich.; badly bruised. ROBERT B. MILLS, Lake Preston, South Dakota, head slightly bruised. MISS ELIZABETH WHITE, Seneca Falls, slightly bruised. MISS SALLIE R. SMITH, 3694 West Pine street, St. Louis, bru MISS BERG, 2 Vir- Mo., ROSE- St. GERTRUDE 1119 Rutger street, Lou suffering from shock. MISS LUELLA A. WEIT- MILLER, 383 Kosciusko street, St. Louis, shock. EDWIN D. LUCKEY, 1332 Union boulevard, St. Lou bruised and hands cu MISS F. W. MOR Phila- delphia, slightly bru d. CALVIN BULLOCK, car por- ter, St. Louls, bruises. E. ATTWOOD, Phila- delphia, slightly cut MRS. WORDWELL, suffering from shock. her out. Beyond the awful shock and the effect of the knowledge th her mother | was among the Xkilled, Miss White was none the wi e for the w bruises she had sustained. M Oliver, who was thrown out of her berth, got a badly sprained ankle. Miss Edna English was . survivors agree that, the first confusion following the ash and the extinguishing he lights, there was.not the slightest panic in the coach. The men behaved like heroes and the ladies were self-possessed and helpful. 0 li got into what clothing they couid arkness, intensified by the s, and sloshed around out on the earth as . the blaze from the ars of the freight train showing them the awfulness of the death they had so narrowly and, for most of them, so che: v escaped. ..Ihe passengers of the wrecked sleeper, who imagined a moment before that they had crashed through a bridge and were about to be drowned in the waters of a or, received a second shock before they dly had time to feel themselves on the solid earth. The Fire Department of with the help of the. oc- of the other coaches of the spe- s busily engaged in stopping the of the flames in the wreck, when rm was passed around that an ik on a car on another track n a few feet of the burning locomo- tive was full of coal oil and was likely to explode at any moment. With one ac- on the foreh s of the striking of the water ¢ quickly as po: fiercely burning in cord the scantily clad passengers ran as far as they could to some place where their. lives would be safe, if only for a moment till they could catch their bri h. Agents and phys ans of the | railroad arrived on the scene in a short time and soon were busy caring for the | passengers until the wrecking train ould arri The survivors of the wrecked coach were taken to the Russ House at Newman where physicians made a h v exami ion of their inju- ed the firemen to > the bodies of arris. in arrived from ile others as: ries, wi d Miss b wrecking tr Mrs. Tho When the | Oakland, another train was made up for the city and the passengers were given the option of coming here and being sent to Los Angeles or going on the eight un- injured cars of the ill-fated special. All [ - e @ & . - S S b . ®-* MISS ELIZABETH WHITE. P* O *P* O EEE O EP O POV EO P The young school teacher who was cut out of the upper berth in the tourist sleeper. Two women in the berth below her were killed. .—4—&0—0+0+0—0—0*—0+M D B e e S O SRCAR SR SR SR S S S Sl i e e R & . & k3