Show ENGINEERS i ERROR COSTS MANY LIVES Headon Collision on the Denver t Rio Grande in Which Twenty one Lives Are Lost Veteran Engineer Misread His Watch Encroached Upon Time of Freight Train and Caused One of the Most Horrible Wrecks In History of Road I Glenwood Springs Colo Twenty ono persons wero killed and at least 40 Injured many of them seriously inn i in-n head on collision between westbound west-bound passenger train No 5 and an i eastbound freight train on tho Denver Rio Grando railroad between Dot fioro and Spruce Crock twentytwo miles from Glcnwood Springs at 930 I oclock Friday night I Iho wreclt Is said to have been duo to a misunderstanding of orders on tho part of Engineer Uustaf Olson of tho passcengcr train ti veteran em ployoo of the road Olson howinor claims ho understood his Instructions perfectly but that ho misread his 4 watch thus encroaching on the lime 4 of the freight train which was being drawn by two locomotives tho drat of which was in charge of his brother Sig Olson i According to rupoits Engineer Gus I tav Olson of tho passenger train had orders to wait at Dotsero until 9i5G oclock for eastbound freight train No CC but misread his watCh Parties on the train at tho tiino assert that Conductor Con-ductor McCurdy noticed tho discrepancy discrep-ancy in the time and gave the engineer tho atop signal by means of the bell cord connecting with the engineers cab In another moment however before tho train could have possibly been stopped the crash came with Its consequent appalling results I Engineer Olson Is said to bo crazed with grief over tho sad occurrence I Ho Is ono of tho oldest men on the road and has always been regaraoo as a careful engineer Tho impact of tho two trains was such that tho three big engines were jammed together until they resembled resem-bled one pleco of mechanism whllo tile lightly built combination baggage and express car and tho smoker and day coaches telescqped one another mowing down the passengers in their seats like a reaper In a grain field Eight men and women wero decapitated decapi-tated as though a cleaver had been i used The heavy Pullmans at tho roar of tho train crushed what remained of the cars ahead Only one person In tho day coach Alice Williams aged four escaped alive Sho was found pinned beneath T tho wreckage by trainmen slightly bruised and covered with the life blood from tho body of her mother who was I Instantly killed and whoao body lay across that of her daughter The wreckage caught fire and tho horrors of a holocaust wero only averted by tho uninjured passengers and members of the train crews who used shovels and boards to throw snow upon theh flames putting them out before they could cat their way through tho debris and consume tho dead and living And to make matters mat-ters worse a second wreck occurred Sunday morning east of Qlcnwood Springs after the first relief train reached that city with the injured marooning tho second relief train carrying I car-rying other wreck victims and tho t bodies of nineteen dead for nearly ten hours |