The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 29, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME \( KH‘-;E\O bO : SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THIRTY LIVES ARE LOST IN COLLISION OF SUNSET LIMITED i WITH A LOCAL EXPRESS IN ARIZONA, AND LIST OF THE JERSEY CENTRAL WRECK’S DEAD NOW INCLUDES A SCORE OF NAMES e —fe WENTY-ONE dead, four l score injured and two ’ missing is the record of ! | | | | SCOBERT il KE Tuesday night's wreck om the Central Railroad of New Jer- Nearly all of the victims commuters hav- rests in New ng in near-by were well ing business i York and resi totwons. promine vere persons of Blame for the dis- | aster 1s charged to the engineer vho is now on his PARTIAL LIST OF THE DEAD AND OF THE BADLY INJURED IN SOUTHERN PACIFIC WRECK THE DEAD. | JOEN BRUCE, 2, engineer of the Limited. . v 5 B Vs : B. WILKEY, Tu engineer of Train No. 8. - 5 [ SCENE OF THE ARIZONA TRAIN ‘WRECK, FOUR VICTIMS AND A SAN FRANCISCAN WHO ESCAPED. | GEORGE 0. McGEATE, Tucscn, fireman of the Limited. [l & M. P. WILLIARD, residence unkzown. 3. 3. HILTON, Cambridge, Mass. | Wreckage Takes Fire From the Engines and Many Imprisoned| Engineer Is Blamed for Awful Disaster UNIDENTIFIED DEAD-—16. 2 & . g ; and Injured Passengers Are Burned to Death, the | That Cost the Lives of a Score of THE INJURED. ‘ Fiames Preventing a Rescue. | New York Commuters. GEORGE MICHAELSON, Tucson, ribs crushed and injured internally; ‘\ will die | N EW YORK, Jan.| 28.—The total lo: UCSON, Ariz., Jan. | dead that but few have been iden-| night operator states that he: BEN S. SAWYER, mail clerk, Tucson, burned and limbs broken; will | attempt was i 8 —Two crowded | tified and there seems no way to|failed to take it. At any rate, ' life by last night's hat point 7. H. BOEEME, Tucson, injured about the head and shoulders. passenger train s | ascertain who they are except by | the flyer left Vails going down frightful collision on L. §. GLIDDEN, Cembridge, Mass. burned about head. crashed _into each | [ watches and trinkets found be- | the grade at sixty miles an hour, | ‘3{“ L\_“‘"“‘r :‘f:""‘*‘" DE. MAYER, Springfiel?, Ohio,.head cut. other at 3 o'clock|side the bodies. | with No: 8 coming toward n; ((;m:‘,:,:,d'c-,,;,‘l" TOM DONAHUE, Tucson, cnt ead burned. this morning fifteen | TRAINS MEET ON A CURVE. | from Tucson on fast time, as it‘: night reached R AR Eea et ey | miles cast of Tucson. Twenty| The two 4rains, which collided | 2 cury | ty-one. - In addition to these Eng e waREE e e cast of T . Y| s, | too, was late.. On a curve one D d F Melacthy of LEWIS GRIGGS, Loucaster, Cal, head and meck cut. | charred bodies from the wreck |head on, were the Sunset Lim-|mile west of Esmond and fifteen | m?",l; .}ihm ,;:fln;i:lmi":g ”\(‘,; . JOIL & ¥. HARMONS, Bakersfield, injured internally. and twenty-five injured have been | ited, westbound, and the local m.]g. east of Tucson, the two |are in the hospital at Plainfield, THOMAS J. LOLLIARD, Elkins, N.C. injured internally; will die. | brought into Tucson, and the fire | passenger from the west, No. 8. ! trains crashed together. FREDERICKO ROMERO, Juarez, Mexico. which is consumin { S run . X NAREEAN iy, M hicl cons g the wrecked | The limited was running hehuul WRECKED CARS TAKE FIRE. | at any. woment, and it is believed s of the injured The number those k coals_from t BEN EREADFORD, May Hill, N. Y. — MICEAZLSON, Tucson. A . 1 s of s ke’ oy + i g trains has not yet subsided. A |time, having been delayed tcn Botlt engineers evidently saw "}“:;IT:”“ !h(c ,”N"‘“‘ll‘ R . ;...\ po! at ; n\:\' he Woc BEN MERRYEILL, New Hampshire. number of missing have already | hours by a freight wreck some- | the approaching trains several The blante i disaster is placed ]‘"”'””'[ “l‘ ¥ hat hop 2 g E 2 ¢ : yeen of reac A. B. SILVERTON, New York. been reported and,it is C\pektfi'd | where in Texas. | minutésbefore, the: collision. but {23, he A o pl;“i}i’," car o C. 5. GILEERT, fireman. that at least eight or ten more| At Vails, Conductor Parker the air brakes were applied too |admitied that Tie Bed the red and | the fla e it green danger lights dis SUNG. O dead will be found in the burning | should have received from Night |, : pecting to see them suddenly change to late and the trains came together B. PESQUIR, Hermosillo, Mexico. ruins of the coaches. The engin- | Operator Oluff an order to pass' ith terrific force. The engines | white, rushed on until it was too late to : ,I(",‘.; B. EATTICK, Tombstone, Ariz. eers on both trains and one of thej No. 8 at a siding .called Esmond, rose high in the air ' and the L“W‘kfi“::le;l":“" "‘"'; l{‘h“\fi:cd i [m the ,x 4 i H : p h ye rear ¢ din ahead. No sta : » = MISS IRENE MILLINGTON, Phoenix, Ariz. firemen were killed outright and | four miles west of Vails.: The! (.(,adu:m, both trains piled up in | has beetr obtained from ' Davis | Plainfic ] car »h(::l:!"i e L. L. BRADFORD, Canyon City, Colo., traveling maa. their bodies burned. . So badly | conductor claims that he nev (‘r‘ 1 - . |hospital, but in intervais. c . b 2o o ST o, S sciousness and delirium he o i ——————————_; charred are the remains of the|received the .order, while thei Contmued on Pnge 8, Column. 1. ‘| g nothing. | Continued on Page 3, Column 8. ¥ 3 i