FIVE D. & R. G. PASSENGERS BURNED TO DEIST TWO ESCAPE BY LEAPING FROM CAR WINDOWS Pullman Catches Fire While Train Travels 25 Miles An Hour in Colorado SEVEN ASLEEP IN CAR Bodies Dragged From Mass i of Wreckage As Engine Is Stopped The ex- plosion a gas tank beneath a sleep- J Ing car on a Denser A Rio Grande train running between Pueblo and H Walsenburg early this morning, set fire to the car and caused the death of five PUEBLO, Colo., March 15 Five person? yv re burned to death when a I rear Pullman car on ihe Denver L Fiin jOrande railroad caught fire at about 2 o'clock this morning between Pueb lo and Walsenburg The origin of the j fire i9 undetermined. Two of the dead were Identified as F. S. Steelman, traveling passenger ! agent 01 ine -uissuuri racinc rajiroaei. and A. B Jack, of La Jara, Colo., SEVEN ASLEEP Seven persons were asleep In tho r-;-"? Pullman when If caught fire. Two of I them escaped by jumping from the j : w indows and were slightly injured. The train was traveling about 2" miles an hour, according to Information Informa-tion received here. The Pullman, the I Corona, was the last car on the tram and vsas completely destroyed. The bodies were dragged out of the mass :of fire and wreckage when the train , came to a Btop. The car ahead of the Corona was I , parrtally burned BRAKE MAN GONE The train was bound from Denver t Alamosa, Colo. The fire was discov. en d by tho engine crew of a north i bound D, & R. G. train which sig nailed the other to stop. i undue-tor Jud Nixon of Alamosa, was severely burned on his face and hands while attempting to uncouple the burning sleeper. Under regulations, the brakeman should have been riding on the las', sleeper, but could not be found this morning, the assistant superintendent LIST OF VICTD1S Tho dead are: Francis S. Bpeelman, Pueblo, travel- H ing freight agent Missouri Pacific rail- H Mrs Winnie B Comstock, wife of H M. I Comstock. Creeds, Colo. fH A. B. Jack. Manassa. olo. H I T. H. Downey, traveling man. of St. H loseph. Mo., i-r M Berry representing 1 Hamilton-Brown Shoo company, St. H James Miller, Florence. Colo travel- H ing representative of Pueblo automo- H bile M. Hood, of Trinidad, Colo., tra- H veling postofflce inspector, was the on- H ly one to escape. Ho jumped through H a window of the blazing car. H probe Ordered DENVER. Colo.. March 15 Tha Colorado public utilities commission H received instructions this morning H from Governor Oliver D- Shoup to in-'vestlgate in-'vestlgate the burning of the Pullnvm Ion a Denver-Alamosa train near Pu- H eblo. which resulted In the death of H five persons today. H oo