Show 1 50 KILLED AND BURNED IN A REC Denver Rio Grande Trains Come Together on urvel e With Frightful Loss or of of Trains 0 Was Due in Salt Lake Tonight Marach 16 south southbound southbound bound and No a northbound passenger t trains ns on the thU Denver RIo e rail mad collided headon near Portland Cob Colo after midnight and it is reported at least fifty persons are killed and a large number injured Relief Relie trains train have been ordered from Pueblo and Plo Ello and a at this hour details re diffIcult cult Gult to I Meagre but authentic information from semioffIcial sources state that the num ber killed In the collision will reach The coaches caught fire and most of the victims werE burned to death a 3 two trains met on a curve and crashed together One of them was a doubleheader and the im impact impact pact caused The he two engines and a smokEr Er and day coach of one of them to turn turnover turnover over The cars were crowded with pas passengers passengers Both cars took fire and only fifteen passengers escaped The cars are still burning The weather is bitterly cold and a heavy n ress interfering ring wIth ith work it is 0 0 0 reported that the are missing 0 Train No 3 is k known as the westbound train It l left ft Denver tot tt S 8 and should have reache Salt Lake at 1110 tonight In the local dispatchers office of the Rio Grande Granda complete Ignorance was as assumed assumed of the wreck All reports it wa was stated go to Denver DenYer and nothing could be learned here |