Show TOURISTS BY wreck on the in texas causes death 0 fifteen A broken rail or fast running caused a wreck on the southern pacific near maxon station twenty five miles west of Sa oderson texas at 3 clock in day morning from the latest ac counts received fifteen persons were killed outright and twenty more or less injured all the passengers asleep and the shock that followed was the first intimation they had of the danger the train was go og at such a rate of speed that the tender and engine land ed seventy five feet from wl ere they left the rails the cars behind piled up against the engine caught fire and all were consumed except ahe sleepers A private car ened by thomas ryan of new tork ty with his family aboard was attached to the rear of the train but it was puffed away before the fire reached it and no one in it was injured all the injured in the coaches just behind the express and baggage cars were cremated the people in the sleepers saved with the ass stance of the passengers the wrecked triin was the calves ton asburg A san antomo west bound passenger no fl and cons sled of an eng ne mail cu baggage car one coach one chair car sleepers one pullman sleeper and one private car bhema I 1 car the bagai car and the day coaches were p led to gether beh nd the en ne and were ablaze in a few seconds it ans un possible to move any of the coaches or the tourist cais as they were all off tl e rails and were soon consumed by the flames As soon as t was possible to get in comman cat on the div s ou 1 ead quarters trains with surgeons and thys ans viere started from el paso del and Sande isoa p eking up along the 1 ne all the surgeons that ild be found all of the inured who ao 10 a con d t on to be moved ceru sent to el paso where they received careful at tent on W G V general manager of the galveston asburg san anton vias at an and left at once on a special tra n for the scene of tl e wieck conductor bt aho vho was only sl ghaly injured o 0 fin I 1 n his crew lere 1 lied and disable stalled out for to warn tl e erst bound tra n two hours he dragged him self tl rough tl e dankness dai kness arriving arr ving in ti ne to stop the approaching train |