Show BODY B Y IS FO FOUND UND D Thomas J. J Lottis Loftis Crushed by Co Coal l DEAD MAN UNCOVERED BY fRIENDS His Hi's Watch Stopped at 2 35 but the Accident Was Wasat at 2 25 e. e a. a m m. m WAS HIS IllS TIMEPIECE TEN MINUTES FAST If So That May Explain Why He Ran Past the Waiting Place Just as F. F W. W Wilson of at the Brotherhood Brother Brother- hood bood of ot Locomotive Engineers was telephoning tel tel- the statement which appears In n the accompanying box to THE TELEGRAM TELEGRAM TEL TEL- at noon today the corpse of ot Thomas 3 J. J Loftis tho the missing engineer engi engi- neer in the fateful fateful wreck of ot Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- d day y morning on the tho Rio ELo Grande was wast t found buried under the deepest part of ot the wreckage After working all day yesterday esterday the tho friends of or the dead man returned to the city last laft night in the the r rain in to to se secure secure se- se cure cure a few hours hours' rest i. i In Iii spite of ot the heavy rain that had fallen allen during tho the night they were again ready eldY to go to the of tho the acci acci- dent K to continue their search today r Ab About mt twenty six railroad men were taken to the scene of the tho wreck on an No o. o 6 a through h train which left the Rio Ria Grande depot at 7 30 0 o'clock clock this morn morn- UJ In spite of the disagreeable weather eather the men went vigorously to work wark at at their sad tak task confident t that Loftis had died at his post rather than run to the tho hills in an attempt to escape any responsibility re for far the accident They Thoy were flere not nat disc discouraged ura as theon the tho long on hours liours of af the forenoon passed without with out results and aud at noon Doan Mr Wilson telephoned that the party would remain remain re reo main at its post past as lon long as a there re- re remained re a possibility of finding their fellow worker Two Friends Find Him Ie Wait Wait a minute he shouted a as he heW W was vas s concluding the communication and andin in in the next moment the news came that the missing man had been found His limp body was as first d discovered at It 1205 by Ly Engineers rs Prank Frank L. L Cowan and ant Albert IIi Higgins who were patiently working together Many times durin during the eight fifty hours during which tho the search has been carried forward farward the anxious workers have been Leen over the spot where the dead engineer lay Ho would have hae been found much sooner if the search had been Leen carried forward ina systematic manner said Mr Wilson to THE TELEGRAM f. sit s As Asit it it was as during tho the excitement that was 1 prevalent everywhere only tho top of the big heap of coa coal Was carelessly raked over o This morning we wo began at one ane end endi i f of the big pilo pile of oi coal and debris and Carried the search forward farward as carefully as a we could could- We wanted want ell to prove prave that en engineers are not mado of the stuff that J would shirk any responsibility Vas i Was Watch Fast The body was found face downward and hardly a bruise was visible upon the Ule remains He Hc like McAleer was caught by bythe Y the coal that fell feU on an top tap of him and it seemed from the tho position portion of the body that he died almost instantly without an any suffering His watch wath had stopped at and andI judging ing that it had been I brought been brought braught to toa a standstill by tho the compact it would seem that it was running about ten minutes lad fat Thi would release Loftis from any blame for the tho wreck as ho he had bad been ordered ordered or or- dered to wait for tho the other freight ht until un no- til when he dou doubtless believed that he be had bad a clear tra track k The Tho watch found upon his bis corpse was his his' own w D Ho c had hac tak taken n it to a jewelers jeweler's rec recently for fora a a cleaning and this was the tho first trip that he had bad used it after it had been repaired The only anly explanation for ar tho the fact that it was waa fast was that th it had not nat been carefully j adjusted before it was returned d to him As soon as the body was discovered Efforts were made to call in the searching search log ing D parties from the hills The funeral train triin will return to the dt city early this afternoon when hen Loftis' Loftis body bod v m betaken bo be taken to Halls Hall's Ball a undertaking rooms rooms Sister Expected It IU IL THE TIlE TELEGRAM r was the tho first to reak the sad sarI news new to tho the Loftis LotUs fam- fam y which had bad been heen waiting D for almost almo t two wo lon long davs days for far any news of the tho miss missing miss miss- in sag ing father brother brather and son It was what I had bad been expecting all the time said Miss Addle Addie Loftis I II a sister eis r of af the dead manI man manI I could not persuade myself that he had bad run away to tho the hills although h as the hours passed by 5 I did not nat know what to believe o. The suspense has been awful This is tho the third death in m the family fatally within only anly a few months The youngest young young- youngest est cst child died only a short while a ago o and three months a ago a the mother mather succumbed suc sue to a prolonged n ed illness There are three children remaining who are now living with their grandmother grandmother grand grand- mother nt at East East- Second South street The two brothers who are coming comin here from Tom Joplin Mo 10 arc are to arrive in n the cit city tonight or ar tomorrow morn morn- ing in ng Two other ather brothers have already arrived in the city Loftis was Loftis-was was 37 years old and was chAirman chairman chairman chair chAir- man of the gri grievance v nce board of the local lacal lod odge the of Brotherhood Od of f o Engineers A Double Funeral Althou Although h no arrangements have been made nade for far tb th c funeral f er r l as s yet yot ot th there thero re has bas been een some soma talk of holding a double dauble service service for both Loftis and ana McAlee McAleer The Tho McAleer funeral un ral had already been set for Sunday afternoon at 3 a o'clock clock from fram the 0 ODonnell O'Donnell Co undertaking un no- rooms when nearly every c railroad man in the city had bad planned to 0 att attend nd It is thought thou that the time would be bo fitting fittin to do honor hanor to the memory mem- mem ory or of af both bath of af the dead men Company's Statement Superintendent nt Ernest Stenger er of the Denver Ri Rio Ril Grande Grands in in this city in speaking of af the finding of the body bady o ot of Engineer Loftis to today ay said that tho the Rio Grande wrecking crews and all available section men had done dono all in in I their power to find the bo body y of af Loftis Loftis Lof Lof- Lof 1 and that the men had worked day and night without success until this thu noon when tho the body was located under tho the debris to the tho left of tho the wreck wreck- left when going cast east He denied the rumor that his company com corn pany had temporarily abandoned the tho search for the engineer and that it was then taken up by tho the Brotherhood of Locomotive Eng Engineers but added that his men could not hn have e done dane more maro in their efforts toward trying to locate lacato him Ho said eaid that work wark had not been pushed with as much vigor A the tLe place where tho the body bod was finally found as ns it was believed to be impossible ble that Loftis should have havo fallen Tallen that far from iram tho the immediate immediato scene of the wreck |