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Show FIFTY HURT IN AWRECK Santa Fc Passenger Train OfLthc Track at Boone, Colorado. PUEBLO. Colo., Sept 4. Forty people, most of them from Kansas and Eastern States, were Injured by the wrecking of Santa Fe passenger train No. 9 at Boone, Colorado, twenty miles east of Pueblo, yesterday afternoon. It was at first reported re-ported that but eight persons were hurt. An Investigation this morning, however, revealed the fact -that at least forty, mostly aged persons, on their way to attend at-tend the Q. A. R. convention at Denver, had received cuts and bruises of a more or less serious nature. JThe wreck was caused by the tender of one of the engines jumping the track, causing the overturning of three or four passenger cars. All the Injured were brought to Pueblo hospitals. The most seriously Injured are Mrs. Mary R. Barley Bar-ley and Mrs. Martha E. Woodward, both of Lawrence, Kan. The physicians at the hospital report that most of the injured are of a minor nature. - |