| Show THE DAILY HORROR details of the disaster on the CoJo colorado rado midland the denver of the con was ulna the details of the appalling calamity on the utah midland the day before it seems that at 7 that morning as the construction train on the he western division was moving movin gover over 4 fresh laid f fraction of the track between the west portal of Hager maa tunnel and hell gate the engine and aad two flats fiats loaded with rails and nearly laborers were ditched four men 10 losing ae 1 r lives and between 50 and W sustaining g more or less injury it was as nearly three hours a after that a messenger arrived from the wreck and notified the superintendent of contraction Str action mr nelson and george georee W cook the general agent of the midland ot of the AWFUL CALAMITY that t md had visited them the messenger himself who was almost delirious with excitement was undecided as to the real extent of the affair how K many lives had perished or how many P had been injured tue the officers of the road to whom the western division has not dot yet been turned the chief surgeon B S galloway ot the awful task taik tai k that had bad been unexpectedly committed to him and procuring assistance the rescuing party started for far the locality it was nearly noon when the train paused before the wreck and found the mangko forms of the unfortunate men inen strung out before them upon the margin of the track that bad been laid but a few hours before without pausing to survey the heartrending scene THE SURGEONS began their labors while as rapidly a as 9 the men were stimulated they were placed in the coaches that had been provided provided tor for them the track for beet ee t or more was literally strewn with ithe the bleeding forms ot of the laborers and several hours were spent in getting ahem in condition lor for removal to the city for the dead baggage cars had been prepared the bodies of three of them being placed side by side bene beneath th t the he engine was found the lizele lifeless ss form of hany barker fore manof man of the track layers the body had bad been literally sheathed in the mire at at which the wreck occurred while ae lae e steam that was escaping from ane boiler buile of the locomotive was cooking it long beffie the arrival of th the surgeons life had quit its MUTILATED TENEMENT the fil fireman reman anh and engineer who had escaped without serious injury were tugging away with an effort to get it out afew A few feet in the rear and doubled beneath the iron rails was the dead body of james mcmahon McM ahoD which had bad been crushed into a pulp beyond this was that of snot another ber a tracklayer who was registered on the payroll pay roll as george roe eoe and of whose history nothing is known pinned to the eaith and begging piteously for relief were scores of laborers a some of them with broken ribs i broken arms and legs the spectacle was indeed hideous and after over three hours of unremitting labor the coaches were filled it was nearly 5 when the engine was sighted on the colling coiling path through the mountains when the thousands of people who had bad swarmed to te the locality of the depot during the day started with one impulse to meet the approaching train and the CRIMSON STAINED passengers on the suburbs of V the e city the engine paused wilile to render the spectacle more affecting a hearse was drawn at the door of the cabin that death had just entered the crowd tried to force its way into the coaches that were groaning with the agony of the passengers but were kept at bay by the trainmen who had bad been instructed to admit no one on e |
