Show ANOTHER STORY OF OP WRECK THAT COST ft PROBABLY 20 LIVES IVES DE DENVER vER Colo Cob March A 7 A special A-special l' l to the Post fr m El Paso Tex says News was ivas received here hare early this morning that the G. G H. H passenger train due he here e- e at t 7 7 o'clock was wrecked near neara a small station named Maxon abo about thirty hirty miles this side of Sanderson Tex Only meagre reports have reached this place but ut it is reported that that- thir thir- ty eight people are dead and as many more injured The wreck occurred at o'clock and was caused by a broken rail Every car on the train was ditched except on one private car ar and they immediately caught fire lIre and burned The station agent at Tabor seven miles away saw saw the light of the burning train anc and went to the scene as fast as a hand car would take him Wild Scene Greets Hi Him On reaching the wreck a wild scene greeted him Passengers who were I able to get out were running hither arid thither frantic in their efforts to rca res resI res' I cue cue tl those se who were in the b burning cars It is believed that few pass passengers n- n gers in the two two day coaches were vere saved as both cars were piled on top of t the baggage and express express cars and were the first to catch fire The Pullman and tourist sleeping ca car passengers were rescued from th the flani flames s and if Ie reports are true none were killed on those thos cars although several several several sev sev sev- eral are reported Injured But three thre n names mes of ot the killed are reported They hey are Engineer Al Mast I Fireman n Henry Bertsch I Express Messenger Adams Every other trainman except Conductor Con ductor Stockwell was injured First Report of Wreck J Owing to the fact that the wreck 1 Is Isso isso so far a away avay ay from a telegraph station the only reports to reach here are over the G. G H. H lines and the first Was was the the conductors conductor's report to the chief t dis As soon as It was vas received a aw w wrecker ecker with Superintendent Martin Mariln and all available surgeons hurried to the scene leaving here at o'clock with a seven hour run before them Surgeons and nurses were also picked up at all w way way stations A later report at says there are are sixteen known dead and many injured d. d Many of the passengers were on their way to California A here The dead trainmen whose families live live i here went down with their engine which was overturned and covered up with the debris of ot the splintered coaches Many Were Immigrants The first coach was filled with Immigrants immigrants immigrants grants and nearly all of ot these perished Seven other cars Were Vere overturned overturned but but buta a private car attached to the rear rear end b by a New York occupied capitalist named Ryan did not leave eave aye the track I Conductor Stockwell who reported the accident walk walked d seven miles to a atel tel tel tel- office to warn an approaching train and send the news of the disaster disaster disaster ter to the the- superintendents superintendent's office here heie The wreck occurred at a a. remote point mites miles east earst of this place in the rugged rugged rugged rug rug- I ged mountains The train Jumped the track on a reverse curve skirts a a. ravine It had ju just t descended a grade two miles in length and was running at rate of speed when it struck It-struck the curve Day Dey had not broken and most I of the pass passengers were still asleep |