Show COSTS MANY RES head on collision on the denver rio grande in which twenty one lives are lost veteran engineer misread his watch encroached upon time of freight train and caused one of the tile most horrible wrecks in H story of road glenwood springs colo tweety one persons were killed and at least 40 injured many of 0 them seriously in a headon head on collision colli bion between west bound passenger train no 5 and ar o 0 eastbound freight train on the denver rio grande railroad between dot sero and spruce creek twenty two miles from glenwood springs at 9 36 0 clock friday night the wreck is said to have been dua duo to a misunderstanding of orders on the part of engineer gustaf olson of the passe enger train a veteran em of the road oyon olon hofei homeier er claims he understood his instructions but that he misread his watch thus encroaching on the time of the fre frecht fht train which was being drawn by two locomotives the first of which wis in charge of his brother sig olson according to reports engineer gus olson of the passenger train had orders to wait at dotsero dottero until 9 55 clock tor for eastbound freight train no gabut misread his watch parties on the train at the time assert that con ductor mccurdy noticed the ancy in the time and gave the engineer the stop signal by means of the bell cord connecting with the engineer engineers s cab in another moment however before the train could have ps possibly been stopped the crash came with its consequent appalling results engineer olson Is said to be crazed with grief over the sad occurrence he is one of the oldest men on the road and has always been regarded as a careful engineer the impact of the two trains rains was such kuch that the three big engines were jammed together until they lesem bled one piece of mechanism while the lightly built combination baggage and express car and the smoker and day coaches telescoped one another mowing down the passengers in theli their seats like a reaper in grain field eight men and women were decampi taid bated as though a cleaver had been used the heavy pullmans at the rear of the train crushed what remained of the cars ahead only one person in the day coach al ce williams aged four escaped alive she was found pinned beneath the wreckage by trainmen slightly bruised and covered with the life blood from the body of her mother who was instantly killed and whose body lay across that of her daughter the wreckage caught fire and the horrors of a holocaust were only averted by the uninjured passengers and members of the train crews who used shovels and boards to throw snow upon then thell flames putting them out before they could eat the r way through the debris and consume the dead and living and to make mat worse a second wreck occurred sunday morning east of glenwood springs after the first relief train reached that city with the injured marooning the second relief train car crying other wreck victims and the bodies of nineteen dead tor for nearly ten hour |