Show fELEGRAPHKLMWS 1 TRAIN VUEUK drapliio Description of tbe Af lair San Francisco 21The Call tomorrow tomor-row will publish an interview with Howard How-ard Tilton of Yale B 0 freight agent of the Canadian Pacific Railway who was on board the Southern Pacific train at the time of the disaster Relays I was asleep in the lower berth when the accident acci-dent occurred I was awakened by the terrible speed and rocking of the ear threw up the curtain and looked out the window the train was dashing downgrade down-grade with fearful rapidity at a rate of probably seventy miles an hour and I realized that a disaster was imminent I laid down again to wait for the inevitable inevita-ble with the feeling a man must experience experi-ence when standing on a scaffold in expectation ex-pectation ot the fall of the trap It seemed only an instant when the crash came and I was hurled from the berth 1 was sleeping on the left side of the car which fell upon the right side and I was covered to my waist with mattrnsses woodwork and debris but found no difficulty diffi-culty in freeing myself Smoke pasted through the car giving timely tokens of the impending peril To the right and in my rear I saw Mr and Mrs Porter Ashe perfectly free but Miss Peterson their maid buried under about six feet of debris Mrs Ashe was endeavoring to extricate her and I assisted in clearing away the rubbish we soon succeeded in pulling her out They were the only persons in sight I pushed up the windows win-dows on what was then the top of the car and foundjthem to work perfectly not a pane being crushed crawled through drew Miss Petersen out and Mrs Ashe followed I asked Porter Ashe to throw out some blankets which he did and then crawled through himself Mr Ashe Miss Petersen and myself had only our underclothing on bnt Mrs Ashe wore a sealskin sacque The cold was intense in-tense and we shivered even though wrapped wrap-ped in blankets Deep stillness followed the crash and we heard only one scream while we were in the car As I emerged from the car I saw Mr Hatch and his mother climbing out of another window I ran along and found we could reach the ground by means of the platform I lowered Miss Peterson Mr and Mrs Ache leaped to the ground The upper portion of the car was in flames by this time Passing along by the sleeper sow the leg of a man protruding from the car He was piteously calling for help but cool and thorcughly conscious of his position I succeeded in partially extricating extri-cating him when a trainman came to assist we saved him from a horrible death He was J F Cassell of San Francisco and was the last person taken from the wreck alive All further efforts was of no avail as the sleeper was a sheet of flames We left the spot and limped down to the bottom of the ravine some fifty feet below where had collected Exgovernor Downey Mr CaEsellJIr and Mrs Ache Mba Peterson Captain Waterhouse and daughter a few persons scattered about us shivering in tho blast Among the rocks on the steep side of the slope lay Wright the porter wounded to death and begged bitterly for help At hetime there were some big strongmen fully dressed parading up and down who were appealed to for aid by the inured in-ured but who took no notice of the suf erring I attempted to assist Wright who was dying but being worn out could do but little A brakeman named McKenzie did all in his power for us A locomotive from Tehacbapi soon came to our relief and conveyed us to the station where we arrived two hours after the accident ac-cident occurred Here we were kindly cared for by the railroad officials and others Medical aid was rendered and i everything done to relieve our necessities necessi-ties The locomotive then returned to the scone and brought to the station the injured ptssengers Miss Squires who was Killed occupied the berth opposite mine In front of the berth of Miss Squires Mr Oliver county elerk of Lake Countywas sleeping He was burned to death His wife wall not with him The next berth contained Mr and Mrs Cas sell ido escaped but she was killed A physician occupied the next berth whose name is unknown He was burned to death and the remains could not be identified iden-tified All on my side of the car except Mrs exGovernor Downey were saved Parker Aehe his wife and maid occupied occu-pied the drawingroom car In the dining and sleeping car were a lady and her daughter whom I believe to be Mrs and Miss Brown Captain Waterhouse wife and two children were also in this car There were only a few persons in the dining car vrhp escaped and they were more or less Injured One of the tramps who was killed jumped from the train while it was moving at lightning speed and the other was crushed horribly hor-ribly in the wreck J W Searle and Captain T N Tnatcher who were reported re-ported among the irjured escaped unhurt un-hurt Both were on the coach which kept tub truck I do not know the cause of the accident and can give no reason for it The engineer and fireman of the locomotive deserve great credit for their untiring efforts in assisting the wounded i Fresno dispatch Dr Carson the young physician of this place who took the train on Friday night which was wrecked at Tehacbspi is supposed to be among the unidentified deed Los Angeles dispatch No news is yet received of the result of the coroners inquest in-quest into the cause of the railroad disaster dis-aster Rumors are afloat 0f tho finding of more bodies Nothing definite Remains Re-mains supposed to be Mrs Downey on examination today proves to be those of soma other person The bodies of Cnas K Pierton messenger Miss M E Squires Lawrence sleeping car porter r por-ter werofent to Oakland and that of C H Larrabee to San Francisco this even log James R Dwyer of Dwyer Skaife supposed to have been on the wrecked train arrived hero on Friday safe Porter Ashe exhibited a great deal of cool heroism at tbe burning of the cars After drawing his wife and her maid through the window of the deeper he resent exGovernor Downey from between be-tween broken timbers saving his life San Francisco 22Porter Ashe who was in the train wrecked at Tehachapi telegraphs a follows My wife maid and myself were occupying the drawing room of the sleeper We were awakened by the swaying of the care going at about the rate ef seventy miles an hour We had justbraced ourselves when the crash came The maid was buried in the F debris my wife and I falling on top of her The immediately took fire I was forced to take tbe timber and burning burn-ing boards From off the maid piece by piece The cir became enveloped in smoke By breaking the window at the top of the car I rescued my wife and maid pushing them through the win dow We were climbing off the carne car-ne EufTpcated by smokof wlien1 heard = a man calling for help and beseeching us not to leave him J reached down through the broken window and succeeded suc-ceeded in getting hold of Governor hgetting Downeys hand and pulled him out nearly strangled While helping the maid to the ground my wife stepped on a window and fell through into the car again The car by this time was burning burn-ing rapidly It is impossible to tell how I got her out I jumped with her to the ground and immediately ran down the hill to avoid the flames Before leaving tire car I pushed through the window a sealekin cloak a dolman lined with fur two blankets and one mattress I had no other except ex-cept a nightshirt Tho wind was blowing strong and intensely cold Surrounded by the dying and dead Governor Downey Dow-ney Mr Cassil my wife and maid Mr Howard Tiltonwho rendered us all great assistance and acted splendidly the child of Mr Waterbouse and myself occupied the mattresses and wero only protected by the blanket till assistance came from Tehacbapi The railroad people did everything in their power to relieve the distressed and from the superintendent su-perintendent down to the brakemen acted with the utmost delicaoy and courtesy We were provided at Tehach api with warm clothes and comfortably housed Tehachapi dispatch The coroners jury found a verdict in the train disaster case that the victims came to their death by neglect of Conductor Reed and Brakeman Patten The verdict is not yet approved by the coroner Two bodies were identified identi-fied as those of Thomas Keepan and Ferdinand Gromfort discharged soldiers of Company H Sixth Cavalry John P Cassell one of the sleeping car passengers passeng-ers arrived in the city yesterday He reports I think it must have been but a few moments after the train started that I woke up I realized that we were in danger but how I could not tell We were rushing alone the mountain side at a fearful velocity and in a few seconds the crash came over we went and a thousand splinters and pieces of debris completely buried us As quickly as possible I was on my feet working to make an exit through the masses under which we were buried to cave myself and other occupants of tho train Everywhere I found myself hemmed in by mssses of wreckage My wife I think was killed by the first shock Her hand was cold when I touched it and my calls were unanswered unan-swered I cleared the passage way along the hog chains for some seventeen feet until I reached a place near where Miss Squires was injured Iheard her scream for succor She told me she was not injured but merely unable to get out of the window The flames began breaking through where I was workmg and I wes driven back to where I knew no hope fo escape existed and retreating merely to avoid a fiery death I went back to my wife for the fourth time and now could only grasp her hair Again and again I called to her for one sign of life but all to no purpose The gases and flames now drove mo from her side and as a last re sortI buried myself in the debris when hope had left me The men working from the outsida suddenly accidentally came upon me and drew half of my body out but there I became lodged our combined com-bined efforts proving unavailing to free me from the debris Finally I succeeded in dropping through a hole made fir m3 by the rescuers I was the only one whoever who-ever reached the light of day from undar that heap of ruins |