| Show HARROWING I 11 G I Details of ilio Newcastle Wreck mill Holocaust I LOSS OF LIFE STILL UNKNOWN Thirty Adults Cremated In One Car Besides Children CONDUCTORS ESTIMATE IS EIGHT I A CEArop nardT qllllrll In P cobr nrroCuolueor hru Newcastle Colo felt Ofhe Case ot lInginver Otrander of tile rrleght engine Is I otill In doubt Charred rrug mellts oC the limbs and battles DC a number of person have been thkc Out Of tile ruill but It Is not likely like-ly I that any more bodies will bo pout lively Identllled nod It seems certain tint the number killed will lawoys reo main In louht The coroner found n shaving mug with the namo W Nicholson upon It also u gold watch with tho name if r C Potter ellJraved on the Outside out-side sidA As Mon an the new of the wreck reached Glenwood a relief train vva1 sent fiom that place and the more seriously wounded were sent back to the Itlo Grande companys fchop at Sa lido General Superintendent Sample of the Denver K Illo Grande happpened to bo In the vlclnltj of tbo disaster and soon reached the scene taking charge I of the work of removing the bodies BICKIININO SIGHTS Tell bodice uere ounttn the rulno one car and four In atiolther Tfic = tl I barred remains l ot two iomell apparently ntly clasped In euch others arms I N 110 found Their head and lower limbs were burned off In the dress bosom of each was found a lady gold wuteh upon one ot which wan In I clued From Mother to Mamie Telegrams from all part ot the country coun-try Inquiring for friends and relatives etc pouring In constantly j Frank 11 Munnix a newspaper man of Victor Colo who was In the I smoker and eBcainl with lalnCuluurlls and bral8 sas till afternoon Words cannot expre the horLor of T h at I these scenseT crash Caine unexpect edl > Suddenly nil utis darkness Th air wus tilled 1lI1 elodero ollIntrs and heated gases Then the flames darted up oil either side The scene Theflam leg lnlly Indescribable TIefiorms I neie In a sense a Godsend for with their aid the vtlndoun were located I even though isengein had to juml through 1 the lire I Newcastle Colo Sept 101h < first man to arrive at tile wreck was K H Strou who rookies on his ranch I about ZOO feet Cum the track llr Htruu was awakened by tho colllon lie hurried to the bceno and aItd lit rescuing the PoSsongers In the I llIok and day coach When he reached the wieck wllhln a few minutes min-utes utter the collision four of the curs were all ablaze anti the heat was su terrlllc that It was Impossible orallY or-allY ono to get near them In a very few minutes he thinks at least fifteen or twenty were cremated J 11 I Young one of the survlvois IIIS be as III the smoker at the rear end when tho collision took place Tile front end of the car and part Of the toot wu thrown on him pllllling him down In his eat und he uceeed pit 1 In freeing himself anti escaping through a window lilt a fev slight cuts on his head There Aera from twentyth to tvv ntyflve in the gazicer and he does not think more than eight got out alive all the ro nialnder being ciemated AS to tno day coach Immediately behind the smoker he thinks there were thirty to thirtylive In It and to the best or I bin knowledge only two succeeded in making their escape ho says All who wcre In the chair car got out safely before the lire leached It as did also those In the two Pullmans theiTho Tho coroner Dr Clark says that ant ten bodies have been taken front burning wreck These with Keenan 1I01lnd Illnes and Gordon IIInk fourteen In all but there Is I no doubt these are less than half of those Nho perished Tile most conservative estimate es-timate places the Hit of dead at twentylire to thlrtynve The remains of what are supposed to bo tell peroons lire confined In tN caskets There In I nothing to Identify them und It la I expected they will bo burled here tomorrow or Sunday Denver Colo bipt 10A special to lip Tittles from OIenwoo springs Colo regarding the wreck near New castleoay93 As soon US the colllslo occurred the llnth gilt used for IIxhllnll passenger trains xploed an hotl rains ftere soon a InRsa of flarli It is I thought that oil the Iaoseners In the Slllllkr Rod day conch perished The Pullman car and a Chicago Burlington A Quincy slpcnl Were UII coupled and saved with all pawns The rapidity with whlrh the lIomes spread after the gas Ignllcd mad It Impoalble for the few passengers ulto Were Raved to render any assistance t those In the day eoaeh many of hom were only stunned and lIghtly Injured and might easily have hen saved only for the rapid spreading of the tZnea One IIIUIi wo Screaming for hell hut those who ruhed to his sltance found him plnllet Cot to the debris mail In jplte ot their efforts to re cue him he perished before their eves The theory on to the cause of tho wreck seems to be that Conductor JJur tinning of the Midland special anticipating antici-pating the tlmo of the passenger un Ictuok to steel n 1lIon und bent the passenger Into Newcastle Burbank Bur-bank escaped uninjured nnd upon orders or-ders from Coroner Clark has been placed under arrest by the sheriff Coroner Clark and detectives are col lecllllg all evidence Pop slble I Mr and Mrs i H Stratum nho llvo II quarter at n mil from the scene or the accident and upon whose ranch II I occurred lepoit that when the to trains met the shock vvoa so great no tn lltcrall burl them out of bed Some say the nolno was heard and the shock felt in Newcastle It U I thought that between 25 and SO are dead The bodies that have been found tile tn In one car and four In another The trunks or two ladies were found linked together In each otheVn arm heat and lower extrelllltle On tlrely KOlle bl t a h hall a gold wnteh infulrcondition These 1011 Will eventually bo Identified by their watch and these are the only bodies which can jioislbly I be Identltled MrIiepi ut elation 1a who uu killed was a prominent lumber and coal Operator of PellnyhIIIn K W Miolti who wan badly Injured I was his 1 partner |
