Show TWO DEAD TWENTY TWO HURT HI RT Estimate of the in inthe inthe the Distress ng Rio Bio G ande Wreck in Colorado BLAME BIAME DEFINITELY PLAcED f OPERATOR ASLEEP WHEN TRAIN RUSHED BY Pueblo Cob Colo March two dead and Injured is the very best estimate of the casual tI S In the wreck of the two Denver RIo Grande passenger trains which collIded on a curve at a point twenty five miles mUes west of o this city early Fri Friday Friday day Only seven or of the dead can be identified and only one or of these corpses retains sufficient or of the out outline line of the features to be readily rec recognizable recognizable The remainder are known from the fact that the locatIon where the charred bones were found e the places they would naturally have been when the collision happened Two tel telegraph operators are held in the pub public lie lic mind to be responsible for the aw awful ful ul disaster although no formal In Indictment has gone out agaInst them Both have been ordered discharged from the servIce of the road A cor coroners coroners jury has been empanelled and will wiIl begin investigating the cause of the accident t Canon City Chained to His Seat In addItion to this th railroad company has directed Its officials to the blame through an examIna examInation examination tion of trainmen and operators who will be asked to gather together in inthe inthe the near future and tell what they know of the deplorable affaIr It de develops develops that R G Whitney who was beIng escorted to the penitentiary by Deputy Sheriff Ed E Baird had been chained to hIs seat and when fire broke out in the wreckage he had no chance hance whatever to ta escape By the hand of fate his guard perIshed wIth hIm The laws of Colorado have pro provisions visions making it a crIme to fasten prIsoners in transportation to car seats Thrilling and Pathetic As time g gs es on incidents thrilling and pathetic come ome to light t ox ex expErience of G C Clark a passenger on the westbound train Is enough to exI cx t tite th iQ A int rOBt fA N 1 J a tI Mr Clark was standing upon te be rm of one of the cars that 1 destroyed by fire He was talking th the negro porter when hen the crash J I ame The explosion ion of the gas tanks followed the collision closely and the force of the blast picked up Clark and hurled him through the roof The man saIled through the air clear of the and landed on the hillside from which he picked himself up practically practically unhurt having sustained only a few bruises and contusions The porter fell feU down Into the wreck wreckage wreckage age and has 1185 not been see sInce Could Not Save Her Babe A heartrending tory story of mother love and wonted is told by Conductor Kroeger who had charge of the P Pullmans on the westbound train I saw one mother he be said with witha a little babe in her arms She knew that it was almost an impossibility to tobe he be saved herself but her only thought vas as of her child One hand was by the debris but her head and the other arm wore were free She was tryIng to ke keep p her head from the flames and with her free freehand hand was h tile the Infant as high in the air as she could Just as we WEre about to reach her she gave a gasp and fell back Into the flames with the babe Another Unknown Body Late this afternoon word was re elved from the scene of the wreck that the head and upper portion of a human bodY had been found under a pile of coal dumped out of the tender of the engIne of No 1 pulling the eastbound train The lower part of the body had been burned away Both of the of No 16 ware killed and enough of their bodies had been found it was thought to identify them Just who could have been the victim who iho was crushed under the coal pile and perhaps instantly killed is a puzzle Some believe that one of the pas passengers must have been thrown to the the spot Indicated by bp the Impact of the collision or breaking up of the cars and a mIracle of escape pe was thus hanged changed to certain death by the over overturning overturning turning of f the engine tender piling the coal on the prostrate form Latest List of Dead Claim Agent Charles Mitchell of th Denver Rio Grande railroad today approved a list of the dead from th the collision near Adobe Cob Colo yesterday morning Mr Mitchell thinks it Is Ih as nearly accurate as can be made at thIs time The list William Hollis engineer Pueblo Walter Cosslett Pueblo H D Suddeth fireman Pueblo Ed E BaIrd deputy sheriff Denver R It G Whitney convIct Denver E l 3 messenger Denver 4 N Bartlo Miss Grace SaUda Taylor HewItt Lebo Kan Mrs Lillian Hewitt Lebo Kan Mrs Winona Hewitt Lebo Kan Pearl He Hewitt i years old Lebo Kan Kall Mrs Mra Katherine athe ln Hewitt and COy baby baDY Claudius toUT four months old Lebo Kart Kan Ed Cowley Emporia Kan Grace Cowley and baby Kan Fred Jon Jones s Lero Leno I Kari n Fred Denver Mrs Belle Balle Webb Keystone W Wyo o oRay Ray Bay Field aged 10 Keystone Wyo 7 Thomas Brenan Leadville Cob Colo |