| Show ij j EARFUL CARNAGE IN WRECK RECK CRASHES 1 INTO fREIGHT TRAIN th list Estimated at From Twenty three toj to j With Long List of Injured Little Littler Girl Cut found Under r Mothers Mother's Body buy Only Oily Person Per Per- son soll Saved Alive From Mr Chair Car L DENVER Colo Cob Jan 16 Seventy one dead fifty injured injured in- in at least thirty of whom will probably die B That is the record of the wreck of the tho Denver l Rio io Grande Grandc passenger train No 5 near iwar Dotsero twenty miles from Glenwood Ellenwood Springs according to a long distance teler telephone tele tele- r phone hone bonc message from Glenwood Springs this morning n r At the office of General Manager Ridgway of the thc Den Dell fj ci rJ el Rio Kio Grande railroad however it was as stated this norn ng that reports received here show that the list of dead in the wreck reck near Dotsero will ill number t twenty twenty- and time the injured from frol l twenty five to thirty No details dc- dc 1 tails taUs have bave as yet been received To fro add to the time horror of the thc wreck the second relief train loaded with ith injured on Oll its way ay to Glenwood has lias 4 been tied up by the time derailment of sonic some freight cars The first relief train bearing a number of the time more slightly injured in jn reached G thus morning bringing reports of the wreck reck which appears to be among time the worst in the time I history of or railroading in the time west I Most Moat of the tho slaughter w was s done In Inthe Inthe the chair car Of or sixty nine no passengers in that coach sixty sixty eight eight are lIe said to have been killed I IJ J The ono one human buman being to escape was wasa a year six girl who was found tinder under un tin- der tho dead body of ot her mother and who Is too dazed to oven remember her I name naDIe further than that it is Alice No further identifications of tho the dead have been boon made according to the Reports reaching Glenwood The dead arc are In many Instances so horribly mutilated mu that identification tion will win bo very difficult According to information received cl here the wreck was caused by the failure fail fail- tire ure of Engineer D Gus Gns o of or tho the passenger pas pas- train to read correctly the time lime indicated b by hi his watch or else lse the wat was W slow siow I When nearing Dot cro OI OlEen en looked I at bit bli watch anti and rea read the time to be 95 p. p m. m It was then Thinking BC bad plenty of time to make mako the next I below I he pulled the th G throttle e of his e engine ine wide Yide open and was making forty five miles mile an hour on a down fD grade rade when he collided with the r freight which was laboriously climbing j t the hill lull under uDder a full head of steam r ToyD with two bi big cn engines f With Awful Crash I When the passenger train did not stop op at Dot Dotsero cro Conductor Edward Met Me- Me I t Curd jumped to tho the and si ov sig- sig sig- sig i En Engineer Olsen Oben to stop the tho train hilt out it was then too lato to fo avert the disaster and the thc two trains crashed together tot to to- t- t gether with an awful nul n ul roar and terrible impact t wJ The Tho three bi big S 'S cD ensues engines nes telescoped and I I when they camo came to a standstill resembled I. I bled niM one ODO huge e piece of twisted steel t It i nd Dd Iron rods rotis and mechanism k K kr i T r Th The combination ba baggage a o and orI or 0 v express car the thc smoker and the f d day y coach which followed tho the enT en- en or i ir T r r Pin Int telescoped while the th three 1 I J r i HaYY eavy Pullman sleepers anI and andI I i diner r crushed tho the entire mass nass r f a tho the engines enines Tho The li light ht I T coache smashed as thou though h r v thc they had been e eggshells f 4 4 P Pass Are Decapitated t Every V person Ir on ex except ept Pt ono one in the chair chai 4 f car nr killed Li S Eight ht p passengers fj were decapitated f as by a guillotine i The bodi bodies bodie of f the dead muti muti- l j are arc RO ao ted that identification may maJ- take ninny many bou hours rs Zi- Zi ZiTh the Th The only Person who p. p escaped death in chair car Alice was Williams ae aged years carR Is from rom some ome point in Iowa Sho She found her dead mother others IS a bOd- bOd li bruised bruil but covered from irom hu l to foot with ith blood The was taken to Glenwood Spring or on l lUe the U i second relief train i Engineers Were Brothers I Gus Olsen was killed and 1 J. J T. T T I Jeffrey and Sill Sil Olsen The on only I other ember of three en- en 1 11 who was wae injured is ii John i of In lag front jump Jn leg t the tho no cab he be sustained stained a n. broken i 1 E En r En ineer G Gus Olsen Oln is i a brother of or of nr Sid Olsen who was in charge charco Jeffries th tue engine on tho frei freight ht train Harry HarTY ia the tho tho on sec Bce nod Ie engine at Roth Both Sil Olsen md and J Jeffries Springs r 1 The caught fire nrc im im- 4 I alter the thc collision ion and r t r r noc t holocaust was u-as averted b by those e 4 Passengers P t who were were- not killed or 4 orI y or seriously injured and tho the thoI 4 I I t 1 r members of ol the train crews who 4 4 J secured shovels sho and md hoards boards andr anti and 4 4 r put out tim th the blaze blare with snow which is piled in huge hue banks bak 4 J alon along the tracks track J. J 4 It was at first supposed that the two mail clerks s Hammond and Frazier on No o. o 5 were cro killed but it later developed dc that it is the CURt custom am to cut th thA mail car carat carat carat at Pueblo and to send it on by No Xo 1 an hour and anti a 1 half later so 60 as not to I delay lay the through train by stopping to lo load the heavy j mail that the they en r lI pick up at Pueblo FREIGHT TRAIN ALREADY NEAR SWITCH AT DOTSERO GLENWOOD SPRINGS Colo Cob Jan 10 Tho Tho trains which collided head on Denver Denyer Rio Grando No O. O 5 and anda a no double header freight No 05 61 They came camo together at Dotsero twenty miles cast cad of or here herc at nt 1030 0 o'clock clock last lut ni night ht The passenger train crashed into tho the head hend cn ine of th the tho engine freight train going across s a switch at t not Dotsero cro which is a blind siding Biding The chair car was tele- tele Continued on page 9 I. I I I I RIO GRANDE WRECK Continued from pa page e 1 scoped seeped and the first firt passenger er coach was s wrecked All AU the sleeping cars ears remained on tho the track and no one in them was injured It I was WS front from fron the the chair car that the dead were taken Twenty bodies bodiel have been recovered It I is said that only ono one person in the day coach escaped Relief trains reached hero with wih the wounded this mornin morning It I was impossible sible sibo at first to carry tho the wounded around the wreck This delayed the relief to the tho passengers ers for more rore than hon hour I At Rapid Speed Speed Tho Tim passenger train is said to havo have been going at a good rate of speed when it reached the siding at The great lOcomotive attached to the tho passenger er engine was waa demolished and time the chair car and passenger coach were turned on their sides and shattered The injured wore were pinned under tinder the wreckage e and ana the heroic work wet of the I passengers from tho the rear cars saved raved many lives Some of the injured aro are terribly mangled and tho the death list it is feared will wil be greatly reaty increased i Train No Xo 5 which was as wrecked left Denver yesterday mornin morning and was due here at 1020 o'clock last n night ht The he train was well filled fiod with wih passengers ers maD many of whom hom were to get off at this point poin t. t Roe Relief Work Vork Impeded is a blind siding din with wib no station tation and no telegraph office When tho relief train reached the scene ene it i was found that the long Jont string of freight cars on the frei freight ht train trin wore were in the way and tho the only way they could b be bu disposed of was to back them to Shoshone ei eight ht miles from the wreck The Tho three mon monster mountain tives tyes were standing on end a mass of twisted and broken iron ion iron while tho the smoker the chair car and the forward tourist car of the time passenger er train wore either complete wrecks or badly smashed The chair car in in which most of the tho killed were riding wa was cut in two and the tourist car was telescoped Tho latter wa was tying lying overturned alon alongside along along- si side o the tho while the chair car lay across the tho right of way The Pullmans Pull Pull- mans roans remained upon he the track and wore were undamaged All An them were wore safe and unhurt Passengers to t Rescue The occupants occupant of the Pullman cars I performed valiant sHant service lonice in caring for i tho the dead dad and injured inured and worked throughout hout the ni night ht at the task The Tho freight was in tho act of taking the siding on orders to allow the tho pas pas- sender train to p pass ss but had placed only part of its is train upon the sidetrack when the passenger Came camo tearing aJon along and plunged into it i. i f |
