Show THREE TRAINMEN KILLED WHILE AT POST OF DUTY Heavy Travel Occosloncd by Elks Convention Results In Wreck of Passenger and Stock Train Grand Junction A westbound special spe-cial passenger train carrying about ninety persons to the Elks convention i conven-tion In Los Angeles at 322 oclock Saturday morning July 10 collided with an extra stock train eastbound east-bound one mile cast of Whltehcad and about sixty miles west of Grand Junction It was a terrific headon collision col-lision both trains moving at fast speed lOngineer Hcldoman and Fireman Fire-man Helnze ot the passenger train were killed and Baggageman Vaughns mangled remains were found hours later In the debris ot the baggage bag-gage car The freight engine crew Its It-s reported jumped for their lives Freight Brakeman Burke was also Injured In-jured badly but not fatally None of the passengers was fatally injured but many of thorn suffered cuts and bruises the most serious of which were scalp woundH The stock train consisted of five doubledeckedcars loaded with sheep Two of these cars were demolished and many of the animals killed The passenger engine was totally wrecked and its tender was piled partly on top of the first sleeper tho baggage car between being reduced to kindling wood The first sleeper was stovo In at the front and the washroom and lavatory was demolished Someone had bungled In reading their orders It Is claimed or else the special had boon forgotten as four trains preceded It |