The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 22, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME YCI‘T—NO. (] [ SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1903. — PRICE FIVE CENTS CAR ON THE NORTH SHORE RAILROAD CONTAINING MOURNERS RETURNING FROM A FUNERAL IS DRAGUED FROM TRESTLE BY KILLED AND SCORE INJURED Judge Z}Igel= lotti Is Seri- ously Hurt. Injured Phy- sicianUives Advice. Point Reyes Homes Are Opened. HE wreck which ocrurred ves terday afte bee r t, number- ost prom- Marin he remain- For was at the throttle and | s George Sheets. This was | the road, and watching out for him. over was reached the engine was | | of speed. Of this Evewitnesses to LEAVE TRACK. struck the curve the driv- | DRIVERS ng strips, thus otive on the embank- | rted a further | llowed by | the | s the center of the curve. | turn completely over, ac- | eas of the passengers, | over 4 h landed squarely on its top, s the woodwork and glass into an escribable mass. So badly was every- ng crushed that only a few passen- ven among the uninjured ones e to extricate themselves with at | | y arose from the penned- | e coach. There were dead 4 dying, and some whose | urfes made them dren with cut and | @ out helpless hands touch of their mothers, feebly for their wives es arose on all sides. | ately there was a party of camp- o i pitched their tents-just be- w where the wreck occurred. This par- n ed three men and three women, ple & th a their for death sbands grasped agor zed c kind er nd able. Immediately tér the t occurred they set to | work wit e c axes and atchets o free the imprisoned victims, and en and women all had been r were enabled | As soon as one sspite | liberate his less | The members | elers 4 were soaked 1 od ot as a result o!‘ CADETS AID INJURED. | pa of Oakland youths known as ps hurch Cadets, Stilwell, were | not far from | as soon as to the| ongregatiol Capta Pardce, and stened Fulton of Oakland, | nied the boys as sur-| eir trip, improvised a hospital | the eager cadets and | were able to be etchers of the com- and by thelr rovised stretchers 1 broken bits of seriously injured to the track orked were to service, in to relieve | He was| provised splints oken limbs, binding | tering such | c case held | rele ired. ad g pain from | cy, 18 years of age, one of ampers, who did much to ! without stopping to notify | 1 of the catastrophe. An en- | gine were immediately dis- | patched to the scene and all were removed | %o the station, where everything possibie | ! the stati and cars | [ 1 | | lott!, Dr. WicKman and James Tunstead | do but ENGINE TENDER AND TWO ARE — 2 l‘ /w was done for their comfort until the ar- ssalito | | rival of the special train from S with doctors and nurses. PHYSICIANS ARRIVE. The corps of phys cia ich arrived on the scene worked with amazing rap ity, but it nearly two hours before the injured were in such shape that they could be moved. Then two coaches were secured, and with an abundance of pil- lows and quilts, to make them as eas possible, they were taken Sa San Anselmo the train was met Coroner Sawyer of San Rafael aj who viewed the bodies of those who h been killed, and the train then proceeded to Sausalito. Assoclate Justice Angel- to alito. by were sent directly to San Rafae! Miss Angellotti, who had a remarkably narrow escape and received only a cut hand, ac- companted her father. Judge Thomas J. Lennon was reported among those injured, but the report could not be verified up to an early hour this morning. £ S R FIREMAN BLAMES INEXPERIENCE FOR THE CATASTROPHE Fireman Sheets is perhaps in the best fon to state the cause of the dreadful ent. He sli; .d from the cab of the locomotive when the tender parted from | it and fell to the trestle. He was not se- n | riopsly injured, though badly shaken up. | As Fireman Sheets stood viewing the direful scene he had somerthing to say. What he sald throws the direct blame on the company in permitting an inexperi- enced engineer to handle a train bearing 50 many lives. According to Sheets it was Ord’s first trip over the road. have been a good enough driver, but he knew absolutely nothing of the lay of the | 1and, of the presence of grades or of the speed to be attained while covering cer- tain ground: All the awy down Sheets stood behind the engineer, directing as best he could | of the points of safety and of the points of danger. But the man at the throttle controls the train and the fireman could little in regulating speed. When the crash came the speed was too great for the sharpness of the curve and the tender and the care left the track. Sheets says that Ord applied theair brakes, but probably too late. —_— E. S. TUCKER'S SPINE INJURED AND RIBS MAY BE FRACTURED S. Tucker's injuries consisted mainly on, ran the full distance | of an injured spine, although it is believed | that several of his ribs on the right side are fractured. His wife wae badly shaken up in the zccidert and is suffering from a severe attack of nervous prostratigy. The couple were removed from the train to 1 He may | L3 | | 1 g County, and, having gathered together a good-sized fortune, he moved with his wife and younger children to this city to enjoy the rest of his life in comfort. | The son of the unfortunate man is Jo- seph Kirk, attorney for the San Fran- cisco Board of Trade, and one of his daughters is Sister Superior de Sales of the Dominican Convent in San Rafael. SC . AND AGED SAN FRANCIS WHO WAS KILLED. These children and his wife survive him, a daughter, Mrs. Arnold Martin of Peta- ——ie | luma, having died a few months ago. n | he k3 their home in Sausalito in an express | Ireland. ;\aglc‘r:‘ the onl: available vehic.e in town o . G i CORONER AND JURY DEATH OF M. KIRK VIEW KIRK'S BODY Michael Kirk was widely known in Cen- | tral california, Kirk was 76 years of age and a native of ‘AT SAN ANSELMO REMOVES WIDELY KNOIWN RESIDENT Dr. §. E. Sawyer, Coroner of San Ra- fael, accompanied by the Coroner's jury, started for San Anselmo soon after the former received information of the wreck. The rellef train was held at San Anselmo for the jury to view the remains of Mich- where he had lived for Until about two years ago was engaged in farming in Marin ny years. ael Kirk, who was killed in the accident, y and the body was then taken to San Fran- cisco. The inquest on the others who met death in the wreck will be held to-day. The Coroner’s jury consists of Sig Hel- goz, J. J. Duffy, Arthur Scott, Dud Kelly, A. J. Inman, Robert Cogginham, D. M. Schneider, E. Vogel and Harry Eckland. ———— ALASKAN CABLE IS NOW ON THE WAY TO SEATTLE Work of Laying tne Wire Will Be Superintended by Colonel James Allen. WASHINGTON, June 21.—General Gree- 1y has been informed that 550 miles of the submarine cable to be laid between Puget | Sound and Alaska has been shipped from New York to Seattle. The remaining 70 | miles will be shipped from New York in | August. This is the first long cable ever made in the United States. It is of the seamless rubber type. Captain Edgar Russell of the signal corps has started for Seattle to make preliminaryarrangements for laying the cable, and will be followed in August by Colonel James Allen, who has general charge. e More Heppner Victims Found. HEPPNER, June 21.—The bodies of John L. Ayres and W.'A. Fisher were found to-day five miles below town. b S as KIRK, MICHA EL, farmer, VICTIMS OF THE TRAIN WRECK THE DEAD. 1816 Steiner street, San Fran cisco. THE INJURED. JUDGE FRANK. A. ANGELLOTTI, left ear nearly torn off and badly shaken up. MRS. ANGELLOTTI, left hand injured. J. R. JONES, 15 Broderick street, internal injuries, head badly cut, bruises. MRS. J. R. JONES, shoulder sprained and severe cut across forehead. . DAVE BURROWS, conductor, San Anselmo, shoul- der broken and head badly hurt. MRS. R. F. TILTON, 1710 Clay sprained and left arm broken. W. L. JONES, Napa, cut across head and breast. MRS. JONES, Napa, breast injured. ERNEST DUDEN, 1330 California street, side and arm badly bruised. MRS. ERNEST DUDEN, 1330 California street, head cut and several severe sprains. C. L. GAGE, 110 Liberty street, gash over right eye and body badly bruised. DR. R. W. SMITH, dentist, 1615 Devisadero street, ribs and left arm fractured and back sprained. MRS. SMITH, head bruised. Daughter of above, 4% years old, skull fractured | but will probably recover. P. E. LYNCH, 610 Larkin street, compound fracture of the tibia and scalp wounds. W. R. ZECK, Maysville, compound fracture of the left legl back badly s; juries. May street, back internally. finy die. and bruised. bruised and scratched. ribs broken. shaken up. ROMAN, ANTON G., Tomales. R. F. TILTON, 1710 Clay street, left arm broken and back sprained. JAMES E. FOWLER, 1033 Linden streef, Oakland, MRS. P, E. LYNCH, 610 Larkin street, ribs fr tured and scalp cut. MRS. J. J. COOK, 610 Larkin street, internal in- JAMES TUNSTEAD, San Rafael, fatally injured THOMAS BONNEAU, San Rafael, seriously injured. DR. W. J. WICKMAN, San Rafael, injured inter- nally. May die. JUDGE MAHON, believed to be fatally injured. ROBERT GRAHAM, Sausalito, badly shaken up THOMAS FALLON, San Rafael, bruised. ATTORNEY 1. BREEN, MISS ETHEL WICKMAN, San Rafael, bruised and BRAKEMAN AXTELL, badly shaken up. WALTER S. BRANN, 1512 California street, two S. W. GORDON, 595 Mission street, bruised an — jprained. die. San Francisco, shaken up. badly GEORGE SHEETS, Sausalito, fireman, bruised. Heroic Ladies Help in the Rescue. HEN the frightful crash came it was heard by a party of campers, who had pitched their tents | & | ! | County, A. G. Roman and M. Kirk AreDead. Other Deaths Are Hourly Expected. Several Hos- pitals Take Maimed. MOST disastrous wreck oc- curred on the North Shore Railroad yesterday afternoom. A special funeral train plunged off a trestle near Point Reyes, on the Cazadero branch. Two people were killed outright, seven were seriously injured and more than a dozen more were injured slightly. The accident occurred at 3:45 o’clock about a mile and a outh of Point Reyes station, and from all accounts carelessness on the part of Engineer Orth, a new employe of the company, was the cause of the trouble. He was run- ning his train too fast, it is claimed, and when he struck the trestle the tender and car went over into the ravine. The wrecked train left Sausalito this morning to convey the remains of War- ren Dutton, an'old resident of Marin and the funeral party to Tom- ales. The train consisted of three cars and there were about sixty passengers on the up-country trip. On the down trip, however, there were only about twenty- five or thirty, many having remained in Tomales. The train coming back only had one car and was in charge of Conductor Burrows, with Engineer Orth and Fireman Sheets in the cab. The engineer asserts his or- ders were to run to San Anselmo fast and that he must reach there by 5 o'clock. In order to do this he had to run at a high rate of speed. He was unfamiliar with the track, having only made one other trip up country. He did nct know the curves or how & locomotitve would act upon certain of them. Everything went well, however, until just this side of Point Reyes, where there is a slight down grade and many curves and trestles upon curves. He struck one and the tender and car jump- ed the track, falling about ten feet below into a ravine. Passengers were buried pell mell out of the windows of the car while others were entangled in the debris of the splintered coach. Several passen- gers were unable to extricate themselves from the wreckage and those that were killed were badly crushed. SCREAM WITH TERROR. There were several women and children | in the car and thefr screams of*pain could | but fifty feet away from | the scene of the disaster. Thé members of the party were from Oakland and their names are Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rowley and son, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Halpin, Miss J. Stiehl and F. R. Preite. The herolsm of these people is deserv- ing of more than mention. They rushed among the mass of debris before the dust | had cleared from the air and com- menced the work of rescue. Thelr de scription of the scene of the terror and agony that prevatled forms an interesting story. Men, women and children moaned and shouted from beneath piles of wreck- age. Some were pinioned by heavy tim- bers and others lay gashed and bruised and unconscious. The sight was pitiful. There seemed to be scarecly any one who had escaped injury and those that were free rushed madly about searching for a child, wife or friend, frenzied by fear and excitement. FREE THE VICTIMS. The campers were not slow in realizing what the situation meant. Little help was at hand, and soon moans grew to shrieks as the partially stunned recov- ered their senses and the helpless begged for rescue from their awful predicament. Seizing axes and saws the campers climbed into the ruins. Women worked with the strength of men, and others of the party stood by bathing wounds and binding them up. Timber after tim- ber fell away under heavy blows, and one by one forms were carried out and placed on the slope near the wreck. As they were released the victims spared no words of gratitude. They lay side by side, some writing, some enduring their agony in silence. Apart from the others were two bodies. Hope for them had passed, and they were laid aside, to be covered and concealed from view. What the rescuers witnessed was suf- ficient to weaken the hearts of strong men. When they had finished their hands and clothes were dripping in the blood that had been shed in the treacherous ac- cident. Yet they never flinched in their work and not for a moment paused to shudder. 1t was only after they had fin- ished that the horror burst upon them. REACTION SETS IN. When all the injured had been cared for as far as was possible, their wounds bound in everything available about the camp and their thirst quenched by waier, carted from a nearby spring. the little band sat down to think of what had hap- pened and to quiver at the misery they had seen. One of the heroes was Charles Rowley, Continued on Page 3, Column 2. | e heard above the moans of the dying and injured men. As soon after the accident as possible those that were slightly injured, or, in fact, many that were seriously hurt, ate tempted to care for those who were worse maimed. This was especially true # Dr. W. J. Wickman of San Rafael. He was badly injured and tosnight lies in & precarious condition. But immediately after the accident and as soon as he extricated himself from the debris, he advised others how to take care of themselves and even helped them to do it. The main office at Sausalito was no- tifled and at once sent out a special train with surgeons. Drs. Howitt and Jones of San Rafael and Drs. Crumpton and Mays of Sdusalito went to the scene of the wreck. A wrecking crew also was sent north. The injured were removed to Tocolomsa and Point Reyes, most of them to the lat- ter place, where their injuries were at- tended to. Associate Justice F. M. Angel- lotti, who was seriously injured, was one who gave great comfort to others more seriously hurt. By lighthearted remarks he kept up their spirits, even though in excruciating pain himself. While the va- rious injured people were lying upon cots in the improvised hospital of the Point Reyes Hotel, Judge Angellotti, leaning on his elbow, sald: “Well, folks, I'll tell you as soon as I get well I shall write a book entitled ‘Angellotti's Bumps and Other Things.” "™ WOMEN AID SUFFERERS. The women residents of Point Reyes came to the assistance of the injured and all homes were opened in crder to provide comfortable places for the sufferers. The wounds were attended to, cots wers placed in the railroad company’s privats car and the injured people brought slow- ly down to San Anselmo. From there some were conveyed to San Rafael and others brought to this city. Mady of the Point Reyes women tendered their serv- ices as nurses and accompanied the train down ine road. Coroner Sawyer met the train at San Anselmo, where a jury had been summoned to review the remains of Michael Kirk, so that his body could be brought to this city without being de- tained for the inquest. Antone Roman’'s body was taken to the Morgue in San Rafael. An inquest will be held on Tuesday. The wreckage was cleared away about 10 o’clock last night and the belated Caza- dero train, with several hundred excur- sionists on board, was agowed to pass through. Many remained at Camp Taylor anl other places :ill this morning. The latest reports this morning are to the ef- fect that Judge Mahon will probably sucs cumb, while James Tunstead and Dr. Wickman are in a precarious condition. )