Show TRAINMEN AT POST of BUTI heavy beav y travel by elks convention results in wreck of passenger and stock train grand junction n A westbound special passenger train in carrying about ninety persons to tho the elks convention in los angeles at 3 22 saturday morning july jo ia collided with an extra stock train eastbound one mile east of whitehead and about sixty miles west of grand 9 junction it was a terrific headon col cislon allsion both trains moving at fast speed engineer heideman and fireman heinze of the passenger train were killed and Bagga gonian vaughns mangled remains werd wem found hours later in the debris ot of the baggage car the freight engine crew it la Is reported jumped for their lives livel freight prel glit drakeman brakeman burke waa gas also injured badly but adt fatally none of the passengers passengers was fatally injured but many of 0 them buffered cuts and bruises the most serious of which were scalp wounds the stock train consisted of live five double decked cars cara loaded with sheep two of these cars wore were demolished and many of the animals killed the 1 bassenger aase ngor engine was totally wrecked and its tender bender was piled partly on top of the first sleeper the baggage car between being reduced to kindling wood the first sleeper was stove in at the front and the wash washroom roo and lavatory was demolished someone had bungled irk in reading their theft orders it wig Is claimed or else the special had been forgotten as aa four trains preceded it |