| Show Do DooRe Ga Wreck j Takes 23 Lives I Sa 0 Lo Man Killed Thirty-eight Thirty Persons Injured Injured In In- in Train Disaster Disaster Disaster Dis Dis- Dis- Dis aster Near lida Colo Cob FALLS INTO RIVER RIVER- Coaches Strike Cliff and Telescope Before Plunging Into Water SALIDA Colon Cole So Se 6 G United Press Prell- Prell Press persons are ar dead and arid a half a hundred are in injured Injured injured in- in following a wreck of a a. a Denver Denver Den Den- ver vel Rio Grande Orande passenger train yesterday morning at 1110 oco o'clock k k two and a a. a half miles mil west of Gran Grin ite i- i SALIDA Cole Cola Sept C I AP OUt AP-OUt Out ut of contusion confusion following the derail derail- J I meat ment of the Scenic Limited Limit o of 0 Ute the Denver Den A Rio Grands Grande railroad near I Granite Colo Cob early both railroad and county officiate offIcials still WI were striving today to bring order The number of or d. d dead was waa estimated at twenty three while thirty thirty- eight injured were In the Denver Deaver I Rio Grande Granda hospital here receiving yIng y- y ing treatment SHARP CURVE The accident occurred on OD a sharp curve nine miles below blow Granite when the giant Mogul engine pulling pulling pull pull- ing a train of or fourteen fourt n cars cara caraI was u-aa I derailed derailed de de- de railed plunged Into the Arkansas river and carried five the coaches Into the the stream stream with It Most of th the deaths occurred In th tin tbs tb's two foremost tome fore most malt day coaches which created crashed Into the cliff telescoping as aa they struck before plunging into the Ic Icy waters FIRST AID Crew from from- two construction camps nearby hurried to the rescue cu administered crude cruda first aid to the must roust badly Injured and began the he grew so me task tuk of reclaiming th the dead and wounded from frum the ea cars car partially submerged Is the water wlter Bythe By Bythe the time tune a 1 a llo f train from Salida SaUd carrying doctors and nurses arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived crl cries crl s from the wounded rent the air all along the banks of the river where in other groups gr upa half dazed survivors survivor huddled about Improvised camp camo fire fires In an effort to thaw out after being precipitated Into the stream Motor ouris passing m near the scene cene of ot the wreck reck along alone the Pikes Pike's Peak Peek Ocean to fo Ocean Oan highway highway high hleb- way also rendered what assistance they could before the arrival of ot the tho relief train which brought many of the dead and nd sixty-one sixty injured to this cit city FRANTIC SURVIVORS Pathetic scenes were ele enacted as frantic mothers mother husbands and wi wives searched for tor their loved ones In the tho wreckage e Other survivors apparently apparently apparently dazed ran about unable to tell their names for several everal hours bours Many of ot the dead were Imprisoned In the wreckage e of coach coaches while rescue workers equipped with acetylene torches brought many wounded from their unwelcome Im Imprisonment Imprisonment Im- Im within the th twisted steel attel coaches coache NORMAL SPEED According to 10 Denver Den Rio Grande officials the train was wa on time and was as proceeding at Its Ir normal nor nor- mal inal speed or slightly less leu when tte Ite accident occurred The Th giant engine that pulled a score eore to death death- In Itai its Ita i plunge all as returning from Its Ir malden mald- mald I en trip over the route after atter a successful sue suc run two days day before to Salt Lake City from Denver It was wa ODethe one ODe of the lar largest et locomotives In use ule on an any American railroad t n a length of feet teet and equipped with the most modern of engineering de de- de- de vices More than 50 passengers were estimated to tu have comprised the trains train's carl cargo O of human buman freight being carrl carried over what hat Is I. commonly commonly com corn described as one of the most scenic railroad trips in America RUGGED MOUNTAINS The accident occurred but nine r miles from the scene of another Continued on paire jage 6 Section 6 2 lJ D. 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G a WRECK TAKES BIG TOLL NEAR SALIDA SALWA Continued from froni page 1 wreck a year ago of two of th the systems system's crack trains the Panoramic Pano Pano- Specials that crashed head hea headon on with a loss of two lives s. s Granite lies on the east side of Tennesse Tennessee pass and along the Arkansas Arkansas' River Rive canyon which continues continued on southward southward southward south south- ward for nearly a a. hundred miles culminating at the lower end i ithe inthe In Inthe the famous famous' Royal Ro gorge To 10 th the west stand some o of the most rugged mountains in the state the state the Sa Sa- Sa- Sa watch range in w which are found Mt Massive and Alt Mt Yale Vale two two o of of the highest peaks In Color Colorado do Th The Inaccessibility of the the regIon region added added to the horrors of the wreck and the comparative slowness wIth which relief reached the sufferers SPECIAL TRAIN Survivors of the wreck IncludIng Including ing ins three of the injured released from the hospital af after ter treatment were placed aboard a special train and nd for Denyer where they wil arrive eary today Officials or the Rio Grande hos hos- here as- as yell well as attaches o othe of the coroners coroner's office who nho have checked the lists of dead vary vary with the list issued by the railroad com com- pany Dr George Carsman senior attending surgeon at the Rio Grande hospital parly early today declared that tha he had talked with Mrs l Rosalie 1 k after l' her arrival In Salida with Juda Isabell son of one of the listed victims Of the wreck who had escaped with but slight Injuries in in- in juries Dr Carsman Caraman also listed Mrs 1113 Ollie as one of the dead despite the fact that company officials failed t to list her either on the dead or injured list Of the thirty-eight thirty now in the hospital only one Is believed to be fatally Injured according to Dr Carsman Caraman The one person 1 i Is Hilda lilda Everett o of Avon Colo Cob who the railroad company lists as s. s one of the dead ACETYLENE USED f I The rhe girl a sister of Albert Everett Ever Ever- ett one of of- the tho Identified dead was removed by rescue workers from one me of the cars aft after r havIng haying hav- hav Ing ng been imprisoned for eight hours Acet Acetylene lene torches were used by the rescuers in tearing away the twisted steel which held her a prisoner She Is s suffering from numerous broken bones Dones and probable Internal In- In juries urles Virginia Thayer 13 of Atchison Kan Can another Salt Lake Lale passenger on the ill fated train es escaped aped aped- Injury in- in injury jury ury according to information re receIved received received re- re here b by tier her her aunt Mrs 1 George GeoFge W. W Edgemon 40 East Broadway r. r Mrs 1 Edgemon received I a telegram at 3 o'clock Monday morning saying ayIng t that at her niece was not ot injured Aftel After a visit of several weeks with her aunt and uncle who operate the Regis hotel here the theTha Tha Thayer er girl was returning home when the wreck lapp happened ned Six Killed at Grade jrade Crossing LOS ANGELES Sept 6 AP AP- AP Six persons were killed and two others injured one probably fatally last ast night when the westbound Sunset Limited ploughed into an automobile on the Southern Pacific grade jrade- crossing at Puente about twenty wenty miles east of here The dead were identified by depUty deputy deputy dep dep- uty a as' as i follows W. W H. H Hoag 63 of Baldwin Park Cal Mrs 1 Mary Hoag 57 Baldwin Park Pari Cal Mrs 1 Grace Hoag 21 of Vandalia Ill 11 Mrs Its R. R D. D Smith of Baldwin Park Cal Cat Donald Smith 7 Baldwin Park Ca Cal Rev Daniel C. C Opperman 65 of Lodi Lodl Cal Cat Deputy sheriffs who investigated reported that the train which was traveling traveling- at a rate of forty-five forty miles an hour bore down on the automobile attempting to negotiate the he crossing Salt Sal t Lake Boy Is h Among Survivors Leland Sparks year old s son n of f Arthur Sparks of the Newhouse hotel hotl was among the pa passengers on n the wrecked Denver Rio Grande rande Western Vestern train Sunday lIe He wired vired his father that he was safe and nd that he assisted in the r rescue york work Leland wired Denver Rio Grande wrecked Was Vas on observation lion ion car Not hurt Several people killed I helped in the rescue work The boy had been visiting his father ather during the summer and had eastward Saturday G. G M. M Lillis about 45 years old road foreman of equipment woo vas was killed in the railroad wreck near ear Salida Colo Cob had been connected connected con- con with the Denver Rio I Grande Western Vestern for several al years years- and nd was located at Provo for a number of years as traveling engi- engi neer eer Mr l and Mrs Thomas rhomas OKe OJe OKeefe teof te fe of f Leadville Colo Cob who were on the train rain were en route home after having laving visited with Mrs l Anna Boyle of Garfield Andrew C. C Nelson a. a chiropractor of f Lincoln Neb left Salt Lake Saturday on the train He hadeen had been een visiting W. W S. S Justice Jus of the Community apartments None of these lese names were Vele listed among the dead dead ead and injured Two wo Killed in Crash DES MOINES Sept 6 APJohn AP AP- AP John ohn Richards Jr 22 a a. fireman was vas killed and ah an an engineer said to tobe tobe toe be e G. G M. M Cook was seriously In Inured Injured In In- juned when a a. Chicago Great Western West Vest em ern road passenger train bound for fOJ forDes Des Moines 1 from Kansas Ci City City- crashed rashed into a light engine 1 two tO miles niles northeast of Arispe Iowa late yesterday esterday Fifty passengers es escaped escaped escaped es- es injury A baggage car in addition to the engines which met head on was wrecked and a combination baggage and nd passenger car was derailed Richards resided a at st t Des Mones Snake nake at Crossing Causes 3 Deaths ATLANTIC CIT CITY N. N J. J Sept 6 AP AP-A AP A snake at a railroad crossIng crossing cross- cross Ing ng was responsible for the killing of f three persons at F Folsom today In Ina ina a crash with a railroad train The Tile snake was crawling across he the the highway just before the cross- cross Ing ng William Aitken of Camden N. N J J. driver of the car tried to dodge odge running lunning er over the snake sn and r S succeeded In the momentary distraction distraction dis- dis traction he failed to see the approach approach ap- ap roach of the Cape May Flyer of the he Philadelphia Reading railroad railroad rail- rail road oad which hit the auto squarely Rose McGannon and Anna Skiner Skinner Skin- Skin ncr ner er each 25 and from Toronto and Villiam William Williams 5 of Camden N. N J. J were killed Aitken and his wife ife Ida were seriously injured I I |
