| Show A To o Ills 18 Nerve amid Bravery Many Owe Osco Their Lives Lc Eden Edell Cob Colo Aug 8 RW W Vance per por porter por ter or on the forward sleeping car ta tim tl 1 ono of o tho the heroes herM of tho th diane 1111 ter To him and ni his hil nerve and nd bravery tho the people on that car owe their Uses 11 ea Ho lie 10 was wai WI standing near nar the tue front end of at tho the car when tho the crash came mind and with nuo presence of ot mind rushed to th the lie on tho the front of the car cr and bogan tightening the brakes on tho thin holl him H car was WM slipping forward from rm time the momentum and from freon time the ter ruble drag dm In front caused by tho the for tor forward torn or ward n cars tithing falling Into tho the held on to t the th brake brako like grim death d t Ilia Ilium Hi hands hand clenched time the wheel until nu his 1113 h almost bled but he lie hold held on or until his tight grip stopped the tile theeT car eT Trio The forward cars CI IP broko brok from the tho sleeper alop must arid fill fall 1 l Into the Ute water while tho the ear which Vance had held lucid with limo tho brake brnko stopped of ot the WILy way WiY on n tho time brink of ot the time chasm the tho below Tho Time forward hind bad lUl left letl time the track and Int gone down donut but hut tIme tho remainder of o the couch coach stayed on omm the tho trucks tracks anti and the time liven of at the gore eu were wel saved maed U It I required two engines anti and ald nearly a It I work to pull this sleeper back from rein tho the brink of ot tho tue Nothing but hul cool col bravo work at ul tho lie brakes kept time the car from ruin plunging Into Inlo the lie stream CAPT CAPr FRANK I IANI WHITMAN WITMAN Lyndon Kan lami In Aug 8 Prank I Whitman killed In time tho Pueblo wreck was IS on omi M hIl his way UV to his hlA homo hOlo In Iii this city ely to see mice his aged father Pent Prof J 1 H HW i is W s hitman II who Is ut on Ills his deathbed Capt 1111 Whitman graduated from West Vest Weil Point In JUlie June 18 6 He ito le was WI major In the tho Twentieth Kansas regiment during the time Spanish war After Ater being mustered out mit ns as a I volunteer he Ime resumed r hut his hil place In Inthe time the regular army being heln promoted to In hits His last la 1 station slaton was waA Fort Logan Colo do Alter After with his liln father hero hem ho he was going on to ManassaH Va where he lie wan to net ns as os umpire In iii time the eastern anoy n my maneuvers A STANFORD STUDENT 80 N Worcester Mass Aug Irene Irone Wright one of ot the time victims of or time the Don Ihen Vor Vr 1 Rio Grande railroad wreck was wasa Wil a roommate last 1111 year at nt Lelaud Stan Stanford 1111 ford orl Jr university In California of Miss Mime Clara Clam of o this timis city Miss MUs 18 Wright right was luas nA edito of ot tho the Stanford KP Sc quola She was on her hor wiy uty IY to Los Angeles there thouc to 10 accept a IL position In 11 n a |
