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2 HEROINE OF DISASTER HELPS WOUNDED ■-•.. . - • -■ - ■ . »'•-,. "■■■.■■ ...■■■• ■■ '." '• .: .-■■■,-■.-.;''■'■.■ ■'■■'.- .'- ■ ■.• '■'-''■■■ :■'■: - ■■! ' ,- :i -i : ' '.■ -'■-'■■'■■ *"-;■ •.:-■■:' ■■--.- ,''-■ ;■ ' .--.■•■■■'. -■ \ "*-' V".'- "- '.S: -' -'~ . ; "-. ' '<■'-■"■ ~i '.■ : ~;." V : 3 ';■'•:" •'' . ■ '' : __.■ ' '.' . ' ' '- ■'£'- ' ■ '■ ..-. ..,'■■ -."-;' ~,..' . ' .■..- - ..- . MINNIE HUTU IN FAST MACHINE FLIES TO VfILLEJO Eyewitness Carries Dead and , Dying to Hospital and n Sounds Alarm for Assistance HOSPITAL NURSES . RUSHED TO SCENE Chief of Police With "Jacks" Lifts Debris From the Bodies of Maimed . hardly seemed possible that the awful thing was true until 1 heard the shrieks and groans. "Then I rushed over to help, but in a minute j «aw - that my machine was needed more than anything else." Miss Hauhiith. who already has a reputation around Vallejo ac ■ daring driver, and athletic young woman, ran home and brought back her automo bile., "-* Once'the engine-balked, and in the presence in' many super-refined but help lossy. women, she :i;i;t(i forth an ex pletive much'stronger than any in use iif drawing , rooms. / . Then she pulled out one of the in- | jured from the wreckage and shot Into Vallvjo in less than record time. At j the\Vallejo hospital no one yet knew of- the affair, and she had to call in idlers from the sidewalk to help her take her suffering passenger indoors. After, that the news traveled fast, and her automobile was only »one of a j number which -were carrying several - sufferers or passengers already dead back to town. , Chief of Police Stanford said he had never seen such a scene, but neverthe- i less he was the person to think of j hydraulic jacks and to pull out the in- j jured. As the Napa Valley road has; tio ■wrecking train," these jacks were the , ; only implements bo pull the load off ; the bodies; for several; hours, until fur ther,, a.ssistance arrived from Napa. . Chief Stanford released about eight persons, some of them dead. The body of an unidentified little Slrl about 11 years old lies in the Vall«?jo morgue in the midst of the remains,' of persons whose relatives long since have heard of their fate. She wore a blue dress with white ; trimmings, a blue suilor coat and white | shoes and stockings. Her hair is dark and cut ratUer short. PASSENGERS RELATE :. 1 DETAILS OF WRECK Frantically endeavoring to escape from the front platform of their car and to reach the interior, \':<>i.irman ".William" Juarez and Conductor Bert Patton were : caught at th« front door when the southbound ear mounted on top of the other. Patten went ahead to speak to the :.'iotorn:an and was just about to re turn to the rear platform when he raw the otiier car shoot into J view. Jamming on the brakes,»Juarez turned with Pattern. Neither was dangerously hurt.; ■--,:. • : Naval Constructor Paul Frets of the navy; yard at Mare island, who was one ,of those who heard Conductor Pat tori peat his telephone orders from the train dispatcher at Napa. was sit ting in the middle compartment. "I heard ' the emergency brakes creak and scrape," he said, "and then 11.ere was a jerk and a shove and the forward end of our car climbed above the other. Everyone had already tried to. scramble to safety, all the pass-. engers trying to rush into the smoking compartment forward. The front door stuck and that held the conductor and motorman where they were. . . ; "We tried to find an axe, but wore unable to get what we wanted, so we finally picked up a riveting hammer. and with that smashed .'the door. There, was no one killed in the smoker, but the seats'were.all on top of each other and Doctor Denipsey, - Mr. Mclntyre and an unknown man were lying on tho floor." '•''-' ...: '/, ; -i^:^ Nearly every one in the southbound car was struck. in the face by a seat or was cut by flying glass, according to James 11. Bentley of Napa. who was riding in the back seat with Mrs. Bent ley. He had his rye blacked, but Mis. Liehtley was unhurt. _■: - : . "For a moment every ; one was quiet, evidently too startled to move," he said. 'Theodore Bernhard of ' Xapa .crawled ovt from under a seat,-;dug out two omen . from the litter . that covered hern and then crawled out through a window. He was one of those who broke in the door of the smoking compart ment." , * TWO VALLEJO PEOPLE i KILLED IN WRECK (Special Dispatch to The Cam VALT.E.TO, June 19.—When th« dead | ana Injured had been removed from the j wreck it was found that but two | Vallejo people' had met death in the collision. The first, to be ;removed. from i the northbound ear was E. C. Judd. , manager "of the New England bakery, and son in law of C. W. Douglas, pro- ' prietor of the bakery. lie was Bitting | in the front end of the car, and his! neck was broken. The other Vallejo man -„ who met I death was J. F. Grabel of 1039 Georgia j street. In company with his 5 year old son, Floyd Grabel,.he was on his way to Lake Chabot to spend the. day fishing , . He *was in the front end of j the car and must have met instant death, being terribly crushed. His little boy was \ found by hie side when the wreckage was removed, and at first It was thought that; his -leg had. been broken, but Dr. Fred T. Bond made an examination and found that none of \ the bone* had been fractured., The child, complained of pains in his head and stated that St hurt;his entire body when any one touched : : him. *It is be lieved that he is suffering from . shock, although' s there is a possibility of in ternal' injuries.* - . v j: v ; .-\'V .'. ,-,. The little fellow was very brave, but kept asking : for his father, who, was • old in death in the wreckage of the ill fated car. I,; E.dJudd was one of Yalle.jo's best known busness men and, his death has cast .*' gloom over the community. Ever Flnce his father in "law .started the .N>w England bakery in this city he had heefe associated with the latter in thr con#jict. of ; the bakery/ business nlid had iuircfiarge. rt« is survived by hit wife. Interior of Wrecked Smoking Car, Some of the Dead and Injured and Vallejo's Chief of Police, Whose Prompt Action Undoubtedly Saved Several Lives Upper view shows interior of wrecked northbound car No. 5 ,in which scores were hurt, arrow indicating smoking compartment where most of the deaths occurred. Diagram ;, makes plain principal factors in accident and incidental scenes. who is at Adams "Springs, prostrated as | a result of * the terrible fate which overtook her husband."-: A pitiful scene was enacted at the scene of .the wreck when Mr. »Douglas ascertained that his eon, in law had been killed. The aged gentleman collapsed , and had to be as sisted to an -automobile-'and brought to his homer; In town.-" J. F. Gralwl was a well known fra ternal man of this city and is survived by three young '.'children." His wife left him some time 'ago and the children! are now left orphans. ? B. E. Patten, conductor of the south bound train, made -a* statement to Dis trict Attorney J. M. ; , Raines shortly after the accident as follows: "The regular ; north bound car gen erally meets us at Collins, at the Five Mile house, but this { morning ; when I rang up Train Dispatcher Edward. O'L«eary at Napa from ; Collins he or dered me to take my car to Hatch, at j the outskirts of Vallejo. where I was , to meet the regular. I' wrote down the j orders and read i them back to Train Dispatcher O'Leary and he gave me the signal for the car to proceed to , I Vallejo. ;; The outbound train, as far, ! as I know, should have met us at Hatch." : ' ' . ■ v v : niSREGARD OF ORDERS I U CAUSED DISASTERj ■*■ . » ' (Special Dispatch to Th* Call) NAP A, Cal., June 19.—Eugene Hough of Napa, motorman on ■ the northbound train, who had a fractured hip and leg, died In the hospital here tonight. ; He was about 40 years old and has a ! wife, son and daughter living here. Horace Richman of ; Napa, conductor of the northbound car, who was > In- i ternally injured,; may die.; j Concerning., the cause of;'.tile awful;l tragedy,^William• Juarez of Napa, mo torman of the .southbound passenger*' car. said: "I received my orders to pass the northbound;; train ,at '-. Hatch 1 siding," below Napa Junction. *" , ; "As> 1 was about'; a "mile north of Hatch the northbound train suddenly came around a curve and into my view, having passed-Hatch without Stopping. I had ; just t.irm , to put; on thr> brakes when a loud crash cane, 1 was buri -■ ; : ■ .-•• . . ■/..-.:..,: - - - _ .. _ _ .-.;■■ ■-..:■. ; .■_.]■ ...... , ■ 4^ THE SAX FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE -20, 1913. in a mass of "Shivered timbers, but managed to crawl out of the wreck age. I escaped with cuts on thf lee and head. Oo&ductop l Bert-: Patton ;of my car also escaped with few bruises.". '•■'•;' Either, Conductor Richman ' left Val ]*\io without his orders or disregarded them in passing Hatch station, accord ing to the statements of other train men. . . „-* 'v-^-;^-'••■■ • -■ ■ Motorman Hough, who died from his 'injuries* had been r'-Vmployed by the company for about 10 years. ' * ;: '■'-~ Dr. E. Z. Hennessey, Dr. O. T. Scaula ena"; Coroner W. S. Urcwrvlle ■of Napa were among the first at the scene of the : wreck , and rendered-; valuable as sistance in giving surgical aid to the Injured. "'.-. ' *"• ';" ,\ nCTIM SPURNS AID; .> V RELIEF FOR OTHERS ''(Special l :Dispatch to.The Cain . . : Maurice Fitzmaurice. 280 Clementina' street, San ; Francisco, /showed that he was one of the gamest of, those injured. He was in the first car of the outbound' j train; - Hβ was badly injured, but not ! sufficiently so to prevent him getting to ! hie feet and starting alone for this city, after obtaining first aid bandages* from a nurse who had arrived at the scene with several Vallejo surgeons, " ; : "I nay, boys, I did not ; have the heart to ask ; attention for myaelf when -.■!■" saw so many of f the • poor devils In■ et» much i worse condition than I, bo I struck out i alone.7:"■■",»" ,;p '"._; ■ . ", x *'.'*;'' " At the * harbor j emergency hospital It ; was-found thatTFitßniaurice;had a deep < wound of the scalp and that he was suf. i faring from i Internal Injuries of ; the J chests He 4 was otherwise bruised,. ; "" ; * MOTORMAN MAKES DYING STATEMENT •'.? loto r niu V K. ;C, Hough Just ; before he died gave - a statement to District At-' torney J, M. Prunes and Richard Sachae and Arthur R. Kelly, representing the state railroad oommlselon. Hough said Ills ■ our,.was ilve minutes late In leaving the Valkji. wharf. Before he pulled out ;he saw # Conductor Richman go to the telephone booth to obtain orders from : the train dispatcher at Napa.. When Richman returned to the train Hough said f that he gave two bells, the signal to start. Hough said; he supposed that Kichman had received : orders to proceed to Collins, three mites distant, and there await the southbound car. -'■'..:.'..■■, : ": •■'■,■■ ' ■■'.''■■'.. ! -■' ■).,.■ ■The railroad officials claim that Hough disobeyed a : rule of the com pany not to start a car until the re ceipt }of : verbal orders from the con ductor. In a period of consciousness Ibis after noon Richman said that he had received 'orders ) from Train Dispatcher O'Leary at/Napa to proceed to Collins. It de velops that the southbound train re ! ceived orders at Collins to await the up I train at siding. ';""";■ :V LI "When questioned by District Attorney Raines this afternoon 'at Napa, O'Leary j denied having given : the southbound train 5 orders i; to : meet £ the i northbound at Vallejo siding. He claimed that Rich man did not j telephone for (orders, ; put left the wharf; at Vallejo on /his own initiative. J "'- / ' '*: v .:. ; -':' .. ■ '■' "':'■ ' ■,-.-■.: -.■- Ten of the ; injured were still In the hospital here tonight. The condition lof three of : - them lis critical: . ~\\ They » are: Silverman of San Francisco, whose skull ie : fractured; P. Monteverde : r of 1687 Tyler street, Berkeley, 5 compound frac ture of both t legs) and Conductor Rich man, whose: skull Iβ fractured. ENERAL HOSPITAL V WAS BUSY PLACE A field hospital In time of war is the only food : description to be \ given the Vallejo general hospital, where a dozen nurse* and tore* or tour ; doc tore labored to patch up cut faces and gashed \ scalps, / and "■ at the ? same time to prepare for operation* on those most seriously Insured. "* ,In addition to Doctor Klota, county coroner, who was the flret phyelolan on the scene, Mies Mary Bradley, su perintendent of the * hoepltsU, direct much of th« work ; don* after the pa tients reached the place, - * ■ Outside tfae dour of; the room where Edward Hough, motorman of No. 5,1 the northbound car, lay dying was a. group of people who only knew him i by sight . "Is his name Hough?" they inquired. j "We knew him and had talked to him. ' but, what his name was,' we had no Idea."". .-• " :-- -.- ..-* i- - Hough* was unconscious practically all : of the time during the day, and not able j to talk. In the middle of the afternoon i ! J ■;■■■■; PRE-INVENTORY SALE \ \ of I FURNITURE ■ Hundreds of items consisting of suites and odd pieces from our entire stock of furniture are offered at • ji Greatly Redpced Prices j Articles purchased at this sale will be j held for future delivery if desired. I , ! W. & J. SLOANE II I 216-228 SUTTER STREET s lie was operated on, but it was impos sible to save his life: : " Fred Hees of Nape died a short time after reaching- the hospital, and hi.« body was taken to the morgue to make room for those Btlil living-. As there were already several regular patients in the. wards, the institution's capacity was limited. About a dozen Injured were kept there, while 20 or more "were treated for slight Injuries and sent away. ,; • NEARLY ALL DEAD IN SMOKER OF THE NORTHBOUND CAR j San Francisco Woman Gives Graphic Account of the Crash Coming With out Warning BOY SEES FATHER KILLED AT HIS SIDE Woman Physician Crawls Into Wreckage to Help Injured Nearly all the dead were killed in the smoker of the northbound car, as the forward end of the other car broke through the roof. It was an hour or more after the crash came that all the injured and dead were taken out, as the use of hydraulic jacks was slow at best. "I was sitting In the middle of the oar when the ears hit/ said Mrs. H. Kear of 538 Hayes street. "There was not the slightest warning, and the next thing , I knew I saw one woman lying dead beside me, and a man's corpse just ahead of me. Just how 1 got out of that car I don't know, for the next thing I remember I was standing in the middle of the road. Blood was spattered all over me, but, strangely enough, J was not hurt, except for very slight bruises."* Dreaming the night before that she was about to undergo a* collision in Which five persons were to be killed. Mrs. Kear told her family yesterday morning, before leaving San Francisco, that she feared to make the trip. They reassured her and she forgot about her premonition until after the accident really occurred. She also told of the strange automo bile which is supposed to have been only a few feet away from the collid ing cars. "I saw a machine with several people In it in the road." she said, "and I heard another lady say that a woman had fainted in the machine when the two cars struck." nißowx AGAIXST SEATS The terrific jerk of the collision threw nearly every passenger against the back of the seat ahead and bruised chins and injured heads were therefore the most numerous of all injuries. For nearly two hours living and dead were held in the wreckage, one man. Max Levillaln of San Francisco, being imprisoned in the midst of a. pile of corpse? and injured, without suffering other, hurt than a sprained arm. ; The,little. Grable boy «aw h}m}fvth*r killed alongside , him, and..lay for an hour under a mass of tangled seata am! beams before he was taken out, still crying for. his dead father. According to L. N. Hendrickson ol Vallejb, who rushed out In an auto mobile as soon as he heawl the news of the accident, a heavy trunk in th« baggage compartment must have caused the death of three men, as it lay across their bodies, nearly touching a soggy mass of brains in one cornei; of the compartment. • WOMAN'S BRAVE ACT Dr. R. B. Lain, a woman, crawled into the pile before many minutes had elapsed, and stood there with restora tives, giving them to persons wedged beneath timbers. Wearing apparel, shreds of human hair and flesh, and bits of wood were scattered in a wide circle around the two cars, and each was drenched with blood. For the first two hours injured wan dered around in a dazed condition, and later in the day there were equally dazed relatives trying to figure how it happened. ARKANSANS LYNCH NEGRO Ansa (hint of Murdered Girl Hangred in Thirty Minutes FolloTrlnsr Capture HOT SPRINGS. Ark.. June 19.—Will Norman, a negro, charged with an as sault on Garland Huff, a 12 year old white girl, was captured In the near by mountains early tonight and 30 minutes later was seized by a mob of several thousand citizens and hanged to a telephone pole on a prominent business corner of the city. The girl died tonight without regaining con sciousness. At soda fountains, bars and restaurants. 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