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Show I VISiONJF DEATH. A Union Pucifio Passi ngsr Train Wreoked at Beaver Brook. Colo-, and Twenty-Six Persons Injurod. THE COACHES WERE TOP HEAVY- And the Train Was F.unning too Past for a ety List of tha Injured An other Accide.Lt. Dr'Nvr.it, Sept. II. A passenger train on tho I'uion l'aeitio was wrecked at about 11 o'clock yesterday morning near Beaver Brook station and twenty-six twenty-six passengers iujured, live probably faially. Tho train was late and run nir.g rapidly around a sharp curve. The express cur left tho track and rolled roll-ed down a lifteen foot embankment, pulling with it the mail and two passenger pas-senger coaches. The train was loaded, with paenuers, many of whom wera Knights of l'ythias returuiug from tha state convention at Aspen. V hcu the wrecking train left Golden, Kohert I'ruin, an employee of the rea l, attempted to board the engine. His revolver fell from li s pocket, the hsin-mer hsin-mer Mni"k a stone aud the weapon was discharged, tlie ball taking effect in the, mail's neck, making a wound whicfi will rcult fatally. The iniwt seriously injured are: Mis. (inlchniaeher, Blachhawk, Col; Kuberl Ke'guruer, Blackhawk; George B. Tar, conductor; Burnett, Nevadaville, Col , and a man named Walters injured internally. The le- seriously injured are K. L. Warren. Geo. Ault.W. lirowuiiig, W. B. Wardock. K. C. Yidel, J. S. Lailie. W. C. Dusselilorf. I'.ruest Howard. K. M. Dunsmoro, I rank BroJie, K. Hogle. C. C. Davis. Mrs. Sterns, a child H years old, He,;ry Ho'wey, John Windell, M. Kerry, Oweu .Jones, (iulier. The causo of the wreck is not known exactly, but that the road uas a nar-. row gauge and the coaches very toff heavy antl it is thought the train wan running too rapidly for safoty. |