Show TRAINS COLLIDE MANY KILLED Horrible Disaster on the Rio Grande Near Pueblo Colorado Tragedy Caused by Failure of Operator Oper-ator to Deliver an Order Which Changed the Meeting Place of the Trains Puoblo ColoIn a blinding storm which made It almost Impossible for the trainmen to see ahead two trains collided headon at a point midway between Portland and Adobe twentyflvo miles west of Puoblo at 220 oclock Friday morning Immediately Im-mediately following the collision several sev-eral of tho wrecked cars burst Into flames and were consumed a number of assengers being burned to death Over thirty others wero Injured but of these It is not thought any were fatally hurt The cause of the wreck Is attributed to the failure of an employs em-ploys of tho road to deliver an order which changed the meeting place of the two trains Conservative estimates on the total to-tal loss of life place the number of dead at thirtyfive Rio Grande of flclals Insist that the exact number of persons on tho two trains cannot be ascertained that It Is Impossible P F Lively night operator at Swallows Swal-lows whose alleged failure to deliver orders to train No 1C Is supposed to have been the cause of the wreck has been employed by the road forman for-man years He was relieved from duty and will bo suspended until the matter Is thoroughly Investigated by tho officials Both trains wero running tho usual speed the deep snow and high wind making It necessary to exorcise exceptional care Suddenly both i headlights flashed out from the darkness dark-ness and It was realized for the first time that something was wrong According Ac-cording to the story of Fireman J H Smith of the westbound train Engineer Engi-neer Walter Coslett opened the emergency emer-gency brake and the train was checked for an Instant but the slippery slip-pery rails and the momentum of the heavy train carried It on Immediately after tho collision a sheet of fire ran through the cars on both sides of the engines and In a twinkling the crackling sound of breaking timbers started the men to action In the forward coach of the westbound train every seat was occupied oc-cupied by passengers most of whom were homeseekers on their way to the northwest A number of foreigners foreign-ers were among them and in their terror they gave up life without making mak-ing any attempt to reach safety outside out-side the burning car Paralyzed with fear and with prayers upon their lips they sank to the floor of the car and wero roasted alive The cooler ones In the car seeing their danger rushed for the windows and doors and with the aid of the passengers In the roar of the train and those members of the train crew who were unhurt managed man-aged to reach the open air Many of them were Injured moro or less seriously seri-ously by tho rough handling they receIved re-ceived or from flying glass and timbers tim-bers |