Show HORRIBlE UIT DETAILS AilS OF WRECK IN Many of the Victims of the Catastrophe at ati I I Honda w Literally Cooked by Es Escaping Escaping T is 1 caping Steam Thirty Two Dead and nd Many Injured Some of the Latter Laer L ter Cannot Live Train Going at Terrific Speed Santa Barbara Cat Cal Mu May It While hur hurr r ing northward over the const coast line or of th the Southern Pacific railroad yesterday aft art homeward bound after a week t tf f r fraternizing and fiesta in Los Angeles US I j ot of temple of or But Buffalo ralo falo anti and temple of or Reading leading with their families and friends were hurled In InS S ly 1 j i the tho midst ot or death when their special train running fifty miles an hour struck R rt defective switch at Honda a lonely lonel sta station tion Iun on the sand wastes of the Pacific beach derailing the tho train smashing the coaches into flinders killing l instantly and Injuring moro more than a of others The bodies of o twenty i one ne lie He In the morgues of Santa Barbara this hits afternoon and eleven cleven more are at San Luis Lula Obispo ObI Silo The injured many of ot whom sire terribly hurt und and will probably die ore in two sanitariums at San Luis Obispo Ob p I Dead at Santa Santi Barbara J Douglas Doulas Hippie Hipple Reading Pa PaH P PaIL H IL K Reading A L I 1 Roth Reading Gilbert Stuff Steff Reading AD A D B Wasson Vason R Buffalo N Y Charles Charlee S Henry Lebanon Pa J 1 W V Cutter Binghamton N Y V Charles tharIes M t Lowing Pullman conductor N Y YC YC YC C W i V Austin New York agent nent for tourist company New Kew l ew York John Lacy LafY La ey negro n dining car waiter walter K It W V Sweeney nero negro dining car carit I pitr it r i Mrs Mra 11 William W Essick Mrs drs John W Cutter Binghamton N Y Mrs Henry J Fisher Fiaher Cleveland CI and Q O Miss 1118 COrN Cora Vung i lOh Cleveland Clev l 0 O I Mrs Brumbach Reading R F I Ila Heading I Benjamin Reading i Harrison Reading O 0 F Reading Heading harry Hatry Reading I At San Luis Obispo Ten TenS I S S 3 Snyder Bending Mm lr ra S Snyder Reading Richard 1 Rending Reading Thomas J Reading Heading NIBs Miss Reading J N K Ell All Allentown en town Pa l a aa Mrs a L N I Allentown An Pa Howard Reward Moyer Hazleton Pa Aloo B It Rogers nO rs StPaul St Pullman conductor woman probably Mrs Mary C Ivin lvin Reading Pa PaS PaSo PaS S S So A Bickford brakeman San Fran Francisco FrancIco cisco cIco fatally injured injured at San Luis Obispo It n Fountain brakeman missing last right w Wio s brought to thIS city this morning HIs Hia back is injured and the lower part of oC his body paralyzed Foun Fountain Fountain tain lain crawled a 1 hundred years ear to flog flag the Second section following and later Ister was up UI anil conveyed to this city this thia W v H Ii of Reading Pa badly scalded Martin MartI I L Henry 11 no Shamokin Pa in injured Inured spine and severely scalded H B II 11 Lee Orwigsburg Pa face lacer lacerated aHa atea both iott hips hils cut and fractured leg J Logar I o r Buffalo N Y leg frac fractured and three ribs broken H A Hartsel larue Easton Pa severely and fractured leg Charles McKinney Binghamton N X Y back injured Mrs McKinney severely werelY bruised about the body bod Mrs Irs Fred lI red Binghamton N Ny y X 1 ankle aniIe A W V Roppolo of Bonnia Point N Y severely t bruised bru ed about neck neek neckS S I Champlain badly scalded Fireman 1 Glen Thompson face arms nd internal injuries f 5 Mrs airs and daughter Helen of oC Reading Pa not serious T J Sr Galvin Galin of or Reading Pa PaI I eft leg ICK Ie fractured d scalp wound 1 Making Terrific Speed The Tec wreck occurred exactly at j one bour hour and minutes after the conclave visitors forming a amerry amerry amerry merry party Dam had spent all the morning in Santa Barbara The state statement ment that the train was making terrific pp H ed when wien it struck the defective detective track is borne out by b the fact that it covered the tM miles mUes of curves and crooked track between n here and Honda in exactly o minutes There Thero was wL no warning of the impending calamity The special plunged lunged upon the tho th defective switch and in IR an instant Im tant the big locomotive baggage car diner and Pullman coupled counTed with It were hurled together In a huge heap of ot wreckage The engine shot forward on the broken track tearing up the thc rails rans and ties and twisting the huge iron fron spans into fish hooks The baggage bagg ge car half burled buried itself in the sand sandon on the right side of or the tho locomotive It was as smashed mashed almost to kindling wood Slaughter in Dining Car CarTho CarThe CarThe The Tho dining dinine car in which were thirty two people eating their noonday repast leaped into the air and was ws thrown ly h on ton toD to of or tho the demolished locomotive Nearly every person in this coach was in Instantly killed Scores were scalded by b steam escaping from rom disconnected pipes in inthe Inthe the th kitchen of oC tho the diner The terror and turmoil of ot the scene scone was Indescribable Many of ot those who escaped instant death by bJ the tho first im impact pact act wert weri crushed by the rear coaches hurled upon the wreckage wr Others Oth rs pin pinioned pinioned in the debris were roasted alive The wreckage caught fire from the coals of r the engine but the fire was extin extinguished In n a few minutes by bytho the passengers pass en eners gem gers ers who lio escaped injury Engineer Frank was pitched Ditched with nith his cab feet beyond the th engine and got and ran of af a tulle mill socking seeking help leip before he die dis discovered covered arm was broken and arid that be he o was waa severely scalded Wife Killed Husband Spared A man standing behind his wife In the car ear was hurled through a huge hugn i rent In the root and alighted in soft sort and d dp t p yielding sand almost to uninjured The TIle wo woman woman woJ J man was forced through the floor and wreckers wrecker had to lift un tons cf of to get her lier body out But Dut the unfortunates who occupied every OT o jrr seat in the dining nr were caught in n v death trap Only two of oC the nine nino men Of r the tho diner crow crew rc are arc num numbered numbered among the dead The remainder though cooped up in the narrow kitchen and pantry sustained but a few cuts and am bruises s sA A 4 last call cah had Just sound sounded eda ed a f tf w tv v minutes before the tho disaster Rajah temple of oC Reading occupied the b I I last car oi O l the train and were the last Iut I ones cries to go forward to the diner The car ear was filled almost entirely with Read Real Reading Reading I ing people when the wreck occurred An I Instant after the smash sm sq ah those who were j I I Inot not rendered insensible or otherwise in incapacitated capacitated by b the terrific Impact Jumped I from tho the train to render reDder aid but tile the I before them unfitted I many for the tho work ork they had to do in inthe Inthe the long hours houra before foro relief arrived I Heartrending Scenes I Frightened women peering through the I windows of ot the undamaged sleeper faint fainted fainted I ed when they the raw l W tho the bodies of their friends strewn along al ng the roadside road blood bloot from rota the gaping wounds staining the sand rand drifts nil all about Men Ien who toiled tolled hard at the task tank of oC rescue collapsed com corn completely completely many of them before beCore tile work wa was finished I Mrs John W Cutler of oC Binghamton whose husband hu b n is also among the killed was in the baggage car ear at the time of oC the crash wh whre re she had gone to rear rearrange rearrange rearrange range her trunk Her body was driven literally through the floor and anil tho the wrecked car had to be jacked up before beCore It could be released Mrs Fred Grummond of Binghamton DIng ham ton was with her and also went vent down un under under der dec the tons of oC baggage and broken tim bor When hen rescuers burrowed their way WRY to where the two women lay In the living JIvIng one reached out and grasped the feet of one ono of oC the men and shouted HI Ill not let 50 go until you ou get me nie out ont Then a 11 gust gnat of or scalding steam emel enveloped enveloped her and anI she he was terribly burned d r She was wits rescued alive all VI however r and ana iid was among those to San Luis Obispo Girl Literally Cooked When hen Miss Cora Corn Young of Cleveland was tak n 1 from the he shattered d dIner she he I was still living liIng but frightfully Injured HOT entire body had been u showered with I boiling water and when women friends I removed her corsets C the Imprint of oC the tile stays was loft left deep in the tho scalded flesh Clesh There wore were countless deeds deed of courage slid and n A D Hagerman of Reading refused the aid of his brother nobles utter after they th had dragged him fa la tally tall hurt bUrt from the wreck wieck I 1 am um dying he lie said go help the women Sander Debald of or Cleveland Cleeland worked he h but unavailingly unavailing to save the lives of two women pinned beneath the tile diner The flames had broken out amid the wreckage and were burning all about the prostrate forms of ot women Burrow Ing log his way into the smoldering splint ered wreck with athose which he had wrenched from a coach roach I tion spouted water from Crom an adjacent I tank and extinguished the flames lames Help Came Too Late Then he ha reached down and after cut ting away t the no broken timbers that held h her bel fast topic tool took Mrs William W Yo EssIck of oC Reading from the ruins She was beg ging pIteously for relief when reached her As ho lifted her from froni the I wreckage a stream of boiling water I poured over oer her searIng her bedy ter 1 Wom Vom Women n passengers sought to re move mOe her Upper but fainted I when tho flesh came off with the cloth I ln ing She he expired i after a few minutes after being carried out on the sand ami and I was forced back into the sleep er enable longer to endure the harrow ing log scenes on every ever hand It tt was wat the most horrible sight I ev ever r I laid eyes eos on he be said Whenever I touched her the tho print of ot the fingers T re rc malmd in the almost fluid flesh T Henry J 1 Fisher of Cleveland went Under protest with his hi wife and her MIss Core Cora Young and Mrs Irs John W V Cut ter to the baggage car The three wo men were killed and he escaped almost from the wreck of the baggage coach Tod Today y wandering about the streets Fisher FIBber asks mournfully How lIow did I Thy Sh should Uld the they die and I live Wife and Baby Escaped W D Wasson of Buffalo was eating at a Corner table He was within Ix wlter inches ot of the hot bot water tanks When th the rescuers neared hIm he smiled Dragged from under the range rang of the scalding steam he be murmured Thank God and died wife and their baby w were r with him on the train and escaped injury Charles M Tyson of Buffalo fe is III i at the Potter hotel here completely un nerved by his experiences He faced f ced death many times dragging from Crom the de bris the bodies of or friends He Be finally col cal lapsed under the strain It was some time after alter the wreck had o occurred before word ot of f It U reached the outside world Aid From Outside Towns As soon as one of the uninjured train men could make his way to the station word worn of or the wreck was flashed to railroad headquarters hero nere and rind at San Luis Lula Obis po Do Immediately special trains were ar ranged rang d for and a corps of physicians and nurses gathered hurriedly together were quickly on their way wa to the station At 4 the relief special left this city It made the run to Honda station sixty five miles in an hour and a half Simul another special left San Luis Obispo also equipped with nurses and doctors It arrived after aCter a run of about th same distance as a the e Santa Barbara train shortly before the one that left leU this city Already the work of ot rescue had been completed by those who had escaped the disaster unhurt Rows of Bodies bodies lay In rows on the sand beside the track The Injured many of them unconscious and dying were scat about the vicinity on of bed dine din and plush seats brought from the Pullmans The more fortunate ones were were attempting to give gIr sUccor s to the suffer sufferers ers era It was determined at once once to t re remove remove move moe the tile injured to San Luis Luls L Obispo and arid bring the dead to this city The work of oJ o placing them upon the tho two trains was I quickly accomplished Before tIm tho special bearing bt the thc th injured had bad reached San I Luis Obispo bispo five fhe more had ha succumbed to I their terrible wounds Physicians and nurses nUrs s worked over the survivors inces laces incessantly Incessantly I Arriving at its destination tha th thI I train was waa met by scores of ot ambulances s sand I and automobiles and the injured were quickly carried to the two tw local I lums I The dead were removed in undertakers I wagons to a morgue I In the meanwhile the train returning I to this city with Its load of dead was wa sidetracked at a lonely switch for the pas 1 Continued on Page 2 1 I I I Le DETAILS BETELS OF WRECK IN CALIFORNIA Continue frem from Page age 1 sage of nt other trains Fr routon out on the sandy desert miles mUes from any habitation or r from any wire communicatIon with tuB the outside world the special s waited for two hours while train after arter train of bound from Los Angeles to their eastern homes bOrne swept by Bodies Taken to Morgue In tho the darkness the occupants of these trains did not know that they the were pass passing passing passIng ing the funeral trains of their brethren The train was reported due to arrive In Inthis Inthis inthis this city at t 9 At that hour every dead wagon together with many other vehicles were assembled at th local Southern Pacific station to transport the bodies to the morgue Three local under undertaking undertaking taking t king parlors were filled with Ith bodies s ot of o the victims The work o Identification had not yet completed Many Man of the dead were so badly adly burned and mutilated as to bt be almot almost t unrecognizable The un an undertakers rooms were besieged ged b bt crowds of or who were still In the city By daylight dalight all aJI of the dead ad had been identified led fled Girl Girt Rode on When the relief train arrived at Sutton on the way a to the wreck T k Miss Maria Fuller 19 O years ears old of Los loa Angeles Jump Jumped ed aboard I 1 want va t to Rp with w th you to the wreck she said to Dr VY W A Taylor the South Southern ern em Pacific division surgeon who ho had charge of the train You cant go replied re the surgeon Ten minutes later Inter when the th train was clipping miles at the rate of fifty miles an hour a wisp of dark brown hair blow blowing blowing ing linK above the front car platform drew the attention of Dr Taylor raylor and the conductor conductor tor A moment more and they had dragged the girl from the tender brake beam of the tha speeding engine Brought In Into Into into to the car Miss Fuller Puller smiled away the thedO doctors dO tors glowering looks q I really re had to go so she sh said I r am ama a member of Southgate lodge Eastern Star and I am pledged to give gle aid when whenever whenever ever eyer I can canOn canOn canOn On the way bark ba k she did her best to comfort Mrs A D Wasson whose hus has husband husband band was killed |