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Show 1 17 COOKED TO DEATH AS TWO ENGINES CRASH Pipe From Steam Chest Pours Death Into Passenger Pas-senger Car MANY ARE SCALDED Trainman Who Doesn't ! Give Name One Eero of Horror HOUSTON", Texas. Dec. 14. The jtal number of dead as a result o? fct wreck Wedncsdaj night on the f&jihcm I'..' ' Hnmbk I 17 miles from here, was I ..hi to IT shortly before noon to-lty to-lty wh n I hi more victims lled in local lof.t 'i-' The casualty list Bhows I nun an, eh i ri negroes I -ligation were started by the mpan and county peace ..ffyrrt :M d In " : pr-pa rations for 1 Iburcuch in1 e tigal Inn. I HOUSTON, Te.. Dec 14 Ten ..: to 1 1 : i 1 1 b liv Hpv and approximately 35 others Bt.ni many probably fatally when I ,i i.. i .,1. i v tr train No. 'JS sideswlped a switch Kksuh n. .it i Humble. V, ire mcl.t TIp I vtp when a two-lni h steam pipe, fern loos. from the cylinder head bj Efc collision, swept around and 1 Lw- flirnush a window ,-f ' he forward nrnLir,- '.ir of the- passenger train. (If Conductor Wlhrim Campsey, In the Hfe&oktr -'. the moment of the impact I . JN ..link', t he train Hms dealer, also .11. .1 instantly. The Hflvt others who were klllea by the Hptm were negroes Bodies of the tO cere removed to the morgue ut I ivhlli all of tin- injured were krouth; to the Southern Pacific hos-Bftal hos-Bftal -er-- in ambul mcea. DRIFTING ENGINE BLAMED 1 rating" of t i engine f rom j. i I he depot 1 a pot n a ' - Mh Mock away, where the siding jfflverged with th.' main line, was t::m.o for lh- .-, eh), nt Hii cylinder heads of the two loeo- tou-.rj struck squarelj be iu- on rlt fid. of it,,' passenger truln 3d mat on the It :t ol the fn Ight Whi being lorn '... i.v ..h- mi- wc. a two-inch steam pi"- which BJ tern the sv Iteh i ngln, - i tea m wtt to nder head, crashed '.iruuirli the window o the forward cokrr of I),,., passengei train few after the , rash a relief traiil wrping doctors an, l nurses, was en Rtt" to th- scene r r. . r , , Houston nod PJfK of extrlcat.np; th,- d id and ln-I ln-I W-'J n 1 , itUcns Immedla I l ENGINE CREW EATING. kh' ,ul'lnlfh' niore than i ., ji,' (t Xrod had been accounted for here tordlnR tl, members or th M the swlt, 1, engine n wat' hman tr,f,J Smith bad b, .n left In charge B t th--, v.r-n to i nearbj restau-M restau-M T1"' first Hi.-, knew of the lu-!nV drlftmK' ' th i in - wio. ihr iwo i,'t,ii,ihf.H 'I I,, watch- unnerved by the tragedy, was IsSu" '" ' x," nh t!ir 'dent I he pwrg.r ir.im i uim;nt; between Lmfai1 in antl iT'-Vi poll. left tho B''l Central depot here al 9 l p. r 10 clrgo of Conductor Campsey. SMr? Horry Hottle and Fireman Bl NVwmu" tho engineer esoap- l.r"1-'1' l,u- Newman received burns. I RAUiltOAD MAN 111 Itn a of th, p ; .. in the Pull- J I 'H WJLS Injure,! All of the -P ad fril j ,Hroc1 V"t' I"' '11k.ts in the Jm. E"eond o,i h,- ,,f th, train. KLb "'" llve st"r"" ",,,n tn" 0ltfl kw -nyine a ?-1 - poured 4m : ,Mi', 5'J' min,i ''-re ,.r,!.,,J during 0m gi.v fjt fescuing victims of tho im 'v Hv, v'ni' r;tllroacl man w ho refused ,'i0BV' b-s nam-, ,-ntered the forward ff He , ra" th" entire length of; t-.. v " Mm fbtsl Ah ft r,--ult ( his br.iM-ry. inured out ol the i ar and 1 kr"Xi. h' 'fled vMims suf fielently ; lO . "'.V'- ' ' . , ! v. ' , , n .. n ,l' Ulro coarh rllow,"a ln" rr,,!,1 '" the "1 a. . " ' 1 ' ' II i me fir-- ) Mm Kl? Ik, "'""'l i n.l 1 v. ,. oi , W i-,. r"' .n.l ,1... .I",; ,a n jl n.r , i , da v' Mi- noapo,ls' s' ''! 0 f, 1 '"".eei train No 7 i hi Wh i fr. n"";'iolis collided head-on '-eitrht train near hre |