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Show ( FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. One Man Killed, Another Badly Injured on the Eio Grande "Western. DOWN SOLDIER SUMMIT. . Three Cars and Caboose Break Loose and Are Smashed to Smithereens A Drakemm'i Tamp. At about 2:30 o 'clock this morning an east bound Rio Grande Western freight train -was climbing Soldier Summit and when within about two miles of the top of t lie grade, the train broke in two, letting three cars and the caboose loose down the ;radc. On the runaway cars were two brakemen and the conductor. The brakes were all set, but the cars gained headway until within a short distance of the safety switch at the beginning of the hill the cars jumped the track and were reduced to kindling in the twinkling of an eye. In the wreck was the lifeless, mangled body of brakeman Thomas Wing.and the unconscious form of conductor Richard Hooper. The other braktmau jumped when the cars were going at the rate of about tifty miles an hour, and, by a miracle escaped with only a few slight bruises. The body of the dead brakeman Wing, and Conductor Hooper, were brought to the city today. The remains re-mains of Wing were taken in charge by Undertaker Joseph William Taylor, ' and presented a terrible sight, being ma.-hed and mangled from head to foot. Wing has a wife and daughter in Pueblo where he resided, re-sided, and was about 45 years old. Conductor Hooper was taken to the Holy Cross hospital where I)r. Pinkerton examined him, and found that his thigh was fractured, his shoulder dislocated, and evidences of cerebral cere-bral concussion. He was still unconscious late this afternoon. His condition is regarded re-garded as critical. Coroner Harris will hold an inquest over . the remains of Wing at Taylor's undertaking establishment tomorrow. His body will be shipped back to Pueblo. |