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Bellefonte, Pa., May 17, 1907.
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Thirty-one Killed in Disaster in
Lower California.
SIXTEEN . FROM READING, PA.
Santa Barbara, Cal, May 13. —
Thirty-one dead and a score injured
comprise the casualties of the wreck
at Honda of the Ismaelia special train
of New York and Pennsylvania Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine, who were return-
ing home from the annual meeting of
the Imperial Council of the Ancient
Arabic Order: of the Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine at Los Angeles.
The train, carrying 145 Shriners and
friends from Ismaelia Temple, Buffalo;
Rajah Temple, Reading, Pa., and
neighboring cities, was rushing north-
ward 50 miles an hour on the South-
ern Pacific coast line when the
locomotive struck a defective switch
at the sand-swept seacoast siding of
Honda, near the waters of the Pacific
ocean, along which the railroad runs
for 100 miles north of Santa Barbara.
The locomotive turned a somersault
into the yielding sands. The cars
swirled through the air and landed on
the fiery mass of wrecked steel. The
coaches were crushed to debris and
took fire. The flames were soon ex-
tinguished by uninjured persons from
the two rear coaches. The bodies of
26 victims now lie in Santa Barbara,
and five more are at San Luis Obispo.
The injured, many of whom are terri-
bly hurt, and some of whom may die,
are in two sanitariums at San Luis
Obispo.
The Dead.
Following is the list of the dead at
Santa Barbara:
J. Douglass Hipple, potentate Rajah
Temple; H. K. Gittelman, A. L. Roth,
C. Gilbert Steffe, Mr. an? Mrs. S. S.
Snyder, George Hagenman, W. Benton
Stoltz, Harrison Hendel, Mrs. William
W. Essick, Miss Nora Stoltz, Mr. .and
Mrs. Thomas Brumbach, Mrs. E. Kah-
ler, Richard Essick, Oliver F. Kauf-
man and Henry Miller, all of Reading,
Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Ellengoben, Al-
lentown, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Cutler, Bing:
hamton, N. Y.
Mrs. Henry J. Fisher and Miss Cora
Young, Cleveland.
Howard Moyer, Hazleton, Pa.
A. D. Wasson, Buffalo.
Charles S. Henry, Lebanon, Pa.
Charles M. Lowing, Pullman conduc-
tor, Buffalo.
C. W. Austin, New York, tourist
agent.
The Injured.
Among the injured at San Luis
Obispo are:
Former Mayor Howard A. Hartzell,
Easton, Pa., not serious.
Mrs. Hendel and daughter Helen,
Reading, Pa., not serious.
J. Calvin Hoffeditz, Reading, Pa.
left leg fractured, scalp wound.
Martin Henry, Shamokin,
scalded.
William Boyd, Reading, Pa., seri
ously scalded.
Mrs. Fred Greenwood, Binghamton,
N. Y., leg broken.
The wreck cccurred an hour and 40
minutes after the conclave visitors,
forming a merry party, had left Santa
Barbara, where they had spent all the
morning sightseeing. The locomotive in
leaving the rails tore up the track,
twisting the huge steel rails into fish
hooks. The baggage car half bruied
ftself in the sand on the right side of
the locomotive. It was smashed almost
into kindling wood.
The dining car, in which were 31 per-
sons eating luncheon, leaped into the
air and fell directly on the demol-
ished locomotive. Nearly every per-
son in the dining car was instantly
killed. Scores were scalded by steam
escaping from disconnected pipes. The
rear coaches rushed on the first wreck-
age, jamming it on those who might
otherwise have escaped. Several, pin-
foned in the debris, were roasted
alive,
A last call for luncheon had just
suonded only a few minutes before the
disaster.
Rajah Temple, of Reading, Pa. oc-
cupied the last car on the train, and
Rajah Shriners were the last ones to
go forward to the dining car. The
car was thus filled almost entirely
with Reading people when the wreck
occurred.
An instant after the smash ‘the in-
jured jumped from the train to render
aid, but they were unable to do much
besides extinguish the fire, and they
had to await long hours before relief
arrived.
Frightened women, peering through
the windows of the undamaged sleep-
ing cars, fainted when they saw the
bodies of their friends strewn along
the roadside, blood from the wounds
staining the sand drifts all ahout. Men
who toiled hard at the task or rescue
collapsed.
Mrs. John W. Cutler, of Bingham-
ton, N. Y., was in the Daggage car at
the time of the crash to rearrange her
trunk. Her body was driven through
the floor and the wrecked car had to
be jacked up before the body could be
released.
George Hagenman, of Reading, Pa.,
refused the aid of his brother nobles
gfter they had dragged him, fatally
hurt, from the wreck. “I am dying,”
he said; “go help the women.”
Sander Deabold, of Cleveland, work-
ed heroically, but unavailingly, to save
the lives of two women pinioned be-
neath. Burrowing his way down into
the smouldering, splintered wreck,
Deabold, with a hose he had wrenched
from a car, spouted water from an ad-
jacent tank and extinguished the
flames. He then reached down and,
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after cutting away the broken timbers
that held her feet, took Mrs. William
W. Essick, of Reading, from the ruins,
She was begging pieously for relief
when Deabold reached her. As he
lifted her from the wreckage a stream
of boiling water poured over her, and
the women passengers sought to re-
move her outer garments, but fainted
when the flesh came off with the cloth-
ing. Mrs. Essick expired a few min-
utes later. Deabold was unable longer
to endure the harrowing sight.
“It was the most horrible sight I
ever laid eyes on,” he said. ‘“When-
ever I touched her the prints of the
fingers remained in the almost fluid
flesh.”
A. D. Wasson ,of Buffalo, was eat-
ing at a corner table, within six inches
of the hot-water tanks. When the
rescuers neared him he yelled encour-
agingly. Dragged from the range of
the scalding steam, he murmured:
“Thank God,” and died. His wife and
baby were with him, and they escaped
injury.
Walter M. Tyson, of Reading, Pa,
is ill at the Potter Hotel, unnerved by
his experiences. He faced death many
times while dragging from the debris
the bodies of friends. He finally col- |
lapsed under the strain. |
It was some time after the wreck |
occurred before a word of it reached |
the outside world. As soon as one of |
thé uninjured trainmen could make |
his way to the station word of the
wreck was flashed to San Luis Obispo. |
Immediately special trains were ar-
ranged. Physicians and nurses, gath- |
ered hurriedly, were quickly on the
way to the wreck.
Twenty-five bodies lay on the sand |
beside the track. The injured, many
of them unconscious and dying, were
scattered about on piles of bedding
and plush seats, brought from the
Pullmans.
Dr. Ware, of Cincinnati, who was
the first physician to reach the scene,
told a graphic story of the terrible
scenes that he witnessed. The most
pathetic incident was the death of a
bride and groom at almost the same
instant, each believing that the other
still lived. L. N. Ellenbogen and his
bride, of Easton, Pa., were members
of the excursion party, and were
thrown from the coach on opposite
sides of the track as it reeled over
on the ground. Both were mortally
injured, but retained consciousness and
exhibited remarkable bravery. The
wife's first thought was for her hus-
band, and the husband's first thought
was for his wife.
“Tell my wife that I am all right,”
murmured Ellenbogen to the physi:
cian. “Give my love, and let me know
how she is.”
Mrs. Ellenbogen, in return, sent 2
message of love te her husband, with
the assurance that she was all right.
Before the physician could carry an-
other message both had passed away.
KILLED HIS DAUGHTER
Despondent Philadelphian Then At
tempted Suicide.
Philadelphia, Pa., May 14.—Francis
M. Schultz, aged 55 years, shot and
killed his 5-year-old daughter, Hazel, |
in Fairmount Park, and then attempt-
ed to end his own life by cutting bis
throat. Schultz, who is a furniture
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‘“‘Gentle woman’ has a bard time in
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Fruit stains may be removed by pouring
boiling water over the article, then wash-
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Soot may easily be swept from Shtpens
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Lay in the sunlight articles that have
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lying down on the grassy slope of
Lansdowne Valley, near Horticultural
Hall, took his child in his arms. As
he held the girl to his side he shot
her in the temple. He then gashed
his throat with a sharp knife. Per
song strolling in the park who were
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man gash his throat. When they ran
to the scene the little girl was dead.
Schultz was taken to a hospital, where
he is in a precarious condition. He
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curable illness.
HEAVY ORDER FOR RAILS
Harriman Lines Place Contract For
150,000 Tons.
New York, May 11.—One of the
largest individual orders for steel rails
placed with a single steel company has
been given to the Tennessee Coal &
Iron company by the Harriman lines.
The contract calls for 150,000 tons of
steel rails, representing a business of
close to $5,000,000. Of this order 110,
000 tons of steel rails are for the Union
and Southern Pacific systems and the
balance for the Illinois Central. The
contract calls for delivery in 1908 at
the rate of 15,000 tons a month. The
rails are to be of the open hearth
variety.
NINETY DEAD IN MINE FIRE
Flames Raging In Big Mexican Copper
Mine.
Mexico City, May 13.—Ninety men
are supposed to have lost their lives in
a fire which started in the Tenares
copper mine at Velardena, in the state
of Durango. The fire is still raging and
is said to be beyond control.
Thirty-five bodies have been recov
ered. Seventeen miners are known to
have escaped. This information has
been conveyed in a dispatch to the As.
sociated Press office in Mexico City.
The burning mine belongs to the Gug-
genheims.
Asleep For Forty Days.
Kansas City, Mo., May 13—T. C.
Webster, 60 years old, who was taken
from an east-bound train on April 2,
unconscious, and removed to the city
hospital, has slept constantly for 40
days and is still asleep. Physicians say
he is suffering from acute melancholia.
New Commissioner of Patents.
Washington, May 11.—The president
appointed Edward B. Moore, of Michi-
gan, to be commissioner of patents,
to succeed Frederick I. Allen, resign-
ed. Mr. Moore has been assistant
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