The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 28, 1902, Page 17

snenFonere | f | = E 0”“'“". Pages 0262 VOLUME XCHI-NO. 28, SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, ‘1802—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CORONER CLAIMS RAILROAD PUT WITNESS OF WRECK ON PA YROLL ORO'\ ER CURRY and Ih[mf\* Sheriff Le Grand claim to have information that Charles Harris, who saw the trainwreck at Byron, was f’t! on the payroll of the Southern Pacific Company the 2 4 ks next day. No one was injured. The Owl train was cut in two. HE Coast Line Limited crashed into the Owl, southbound, at Tropu:o near Los Angeles, yesterday mammg The engineer of the Limited is blamed. COAST LINE LIMITED CUTS THE OWL TRAIN IN TWO AT TROPICO ‘i ENTUCKY, Kansas, Ohio and other Eastern States are contributing their quota to the list of wrbe victims. In the first- mmmd Slalc a collision \ertm day cost the lives of three ratlroad men. bt o4 + T HE carelessness of a railroad employe, who made an error in transmitting orders to conductors, is alleged\ to ‘ ‘have caused the Grand Trzmk wreck, which cost the lives of twenty-eight persons. TWENTY-EIGHT PERSONS PERISH IN THE GRAND TRUNK COLLISION » Corover CorrRY THAING CRAGH ha RESULT OF CARELESSNESS Operator Makes Fatal Error in-Sending Orders. Express Dashes Into Freight | While Blinding Storm IsRaging. LONDON, Ont, Dec. 21.—A frightful pollision occurred a short distance from the little station of Waustead, on the Barnia branch of the Grand Trunk Rail- | way, last night. The trains in collision were the Pacific Express and a frelght The express was running nearly two | hours late and was making fast time. | The freight was endeavoring to make a | siding to get clear of the express, but | failed by @ minute or two. *There was an | awful crash, the locomotives reared up | and fell into a ditch, the baggage car of | the express telescoped the smoker and in | an instant arose the shricks and cries | of the injured and dying. The number of dead is twenty-elght The injured number many more and | sany of these may die. Several of the e were terribly mutllated and the | Jevel stretch of snow became crimson with the blood of the victims. | The responsibility for the accident has | been due to a telegraph | perator’s error. The operator at one of J the stations where the two trains stopped ‘ gave an order to the freight to pass No. | i, the Pacific express, at Wanstead. In the system of the Grand Trunk | A SPECTATOR . N S, PALITER STENORALHER S HARDY JTANCERIGN AL BLUMT. E.[TORGAN VIEWS OF MARTINEZ INQUEST PHOTOGRAPHED AND SKETCHED BY CALL ARTISTS. PISENGER ESCAPE HARM MIRACULOUSLY |Coast Line Limited and | Owl Train Are in Collision. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21.—In a dense | | fog which obscured everything not within | 100 yards of the engineer, the northbound —Continued on PAE!‘IS, Column 2. l Continued on Page 18, Column 3. OF COVERT C URRY COMPLAINS BITTERLY OPFOSITION Train Crews Differ as to Time Brakeman Cole Started to Flag Flyer, but Hold That McGuire Could Have Avoided Collision. ARTINEZ, K Dec. 27.—The evident purpose of shifting the responsibility for the Byron railroad disaster . to the shoulders of Engineer | McGuire of the Stockton fiyer was made - still more apparent at the inquest begun here to- day by Coroner Curry. The proceedings were held in the Town Hall, in the pres- ence of a large crowd of spectators. Cor- oner Curry conducted tne Inquiry in per- son examining: the- witnesses = with * the ’ shrewdness atid ability of a trained attor- ney. Before the session opened the Cor- | onec expressed his .determination of get- ting at the facts of the’ case and fixing the blame fer the accident where it belongs. “I have already encountered considera- ble covert: opposition,” ‘said he, “espec- ially in securing some of the witnesses I want. Charles Harris, the tramp who }was stowed away on the breakbeam of the Fresno coach, can tell more about the movements of Brakeman Cole when he went to flag the flyer than any one else, but he can’t be found. I am in possession of information, however, thatHarris was put on the pay roll 6f the Southern Pa- cific Company the morning after the wreck, though when I sought to secure him yesterday as a witness not \an official could be found who w- of his existence. Continued on Page ’15, Column 4. FREOWERE CC.Swamy FBeowZER CORONESR HENRY J.CURRY JIT TAHI, |THREE. DEATHS IN A KENTUCKY RAIL DISASTER TWO FREIGHTS ON KANGAS LINE MEET HEAD-ON New Orleans ExpressoBrakeman' Loses Life Crashes Into a Work Train, Fireman of the Passenger Is Among the Vietims of the Collision. LOUISVILLE, Dec. 27.—A fast passenger train on the Illinois Central Railroad bound for Cincinnati from New Orleans, crashed into a work train af Caneyville, eighty-four miles from Louisville, to-day. Three men were killed and two injured. Cnc of the engines was demolfshed and the other engine and three cars were de- | badly scalded; rafled. The kilied: ROBERT SMITH, engineer of the work train, Elizabethtown, Ky. THOMAS BELL, fireman of the work ! train, Louisville. ‘W. O. ROBERTS, fireman of the pas- senger train, Central City, Ky: The injured—Louis Cofer, engineer of | the passenger train, Loulisville, badly bruised and cut; John Sandett, passenger, Louisville, arms cut and bruised about the body. AL L S TRAIN LEAVES THE RAILS. CLEVELAND, Dec. 27.—The westbound | passenger train which left Pittsburg last | Cleveland and _Pittsburg | Fallinger, Rochester, N. Y. night on the road jumped the track at Bradys Lake, Ohio, early- this morning” while running rapidly and went into the ditch. J. A. Allen, baggageman, Albert Thornton and Edward French, Pullman porters, all re- ceived slight injuries. It is said no pas- sengers were hurt. The accident was caused by snaw falling into a switch. | and Several Are Injured. Crews of Both Looomotives Receive Hurts or Scalds. PAOLA, Kidns., Dec. 27.—A head-end cellision occurred between freight trains on the Missouri Pacific Rallroad a mile south of Dodson at 1 o'clock this morn- ing. “The dead: T. P. NORTON, brakeman, Sedalia, Mo. The injured—Wiliam Bedell, engineer, Spaulding, brakeman, head cut and gash on arm; J. W. Hill, engineer, *badly bruised. Both firemen were slightly injured. DOLLY EARLE ENDS HER TROUBLED LIFE Actress Swallows Carbolic Acid and Leaves Note Asking For- giveness. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27.—Dolly Earle, a member of the “Merry Widows” com~ pany, playing at a burlesque house here, committed suicide to-night in her dress~ ing room by swallowing carbolic acid. She lett the followins note addressed to J. A. “Forgive me all; can’t stand trouble.” Miss Earle was about 30 years old. Her home 1S said to be in Oklahoma. She was tormerly a member of the “Runaway Girl”. company, which stranded here about two weeks ago. She joined the “Merry Widows”’ compa.y in this city.