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Show ONE KILLED, 1 11 HURT IN TRAIN WRECK D. & R. G. Passenger Train Crashes Into Freight DENVER, Sept. 28 (U.R) Wrecking crews pulled two crumpled locomotives apart today, righted 10 cars and hunted for persons killed or injured in a head-on collision between a passenger and a freight train at the Denver city limits last night. One man was killed and 14 persons per-sons were injured when a westbound west-bound Denver & Rio Grande Western West-ern passenger train and an east-bound east-bound Denver & Salt Lake freight collided at a siding on which the latter should have been waiting. Body Identified The crushed body of Robert H. Miner, identified as a section hand for the D. & S. L. railway, was taken from the twisted tender of the freight early today. Authorities Authori-ties said he evidently had "hopped" "hop-ped" a ride, as he was not aboard in any official capacity. Three women were trapped for more than an hour in the wreckage wreck-age of a passenger coach when the baggage car ahead telescoped 25 feet into it from the pressure of the impact. They were freed by workmen who cut away the side of the car with acetylene torches. The women, Mrs. Eleanor Hamilton, Ham-ilton, 55; Mrs. Alfreda Morlan, 29; and Mrs. Gertrude Graham, all of Meeker, Colo., were taken to a hospital for treatment of crushed legs. Believed most seriously injured was James F. Bishop, 41, fireman ' of the freight, who was buried beneath be-neath several tons of coal which was hurled down on him from the tender. Hospital attendants reported re-ported his condition serious. |