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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 29, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 22.

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From Fiesta to Death.

Thirty-nine, and possibly more, were killed in a wreck of a Southern Pacific train at Honda, Cal., May 11. The train was a special, carrying eastern visitors and delegates from the gay flower carnival of the Eastern Shriners in Los Angeles to their homes. It is not definitely known what caused the disaster, but engine, tender, baggage car, a diner, and three coaches were piled in hopeless confusion, burying many. Fire broke out, but was soon subdued. Many of the buried passengers were scalded to death by escaping steam. How many go down to death every day, snatched from pleasure and gaiety, without warning, without preparation. It is a sad picture, but so common that men look on unmoved.