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Show HEART-RENDING SCENES Survlveos Tell of Horrible 8lghU Following Fol-lowing Wrecking of Train. Pueblo, Colo. Conservative estimates esti-mates on tho loss of life as the result of tho collision of the 'two passenger trains on tho Denver & Rio Grando railway twenty-flvo miles west of hero, place tho number of dead at thirty-six. thirty-six. Seventeen charred, mangled and utterly unrccognlzablo bodies Ho In ;th Pueblo morgue, two others are In "the morguo at Florence, several other persons are known to bo dead, and poslbly a score of bodies were burned to ashes. There was not a single ontlro body recovered from tho wreckage, with tho exception of tho cnglno man, who, although horribly mangled, had not been reached by tho swift flames which swept through the wrecked cars. Only seven of tho dead can bo Identified Iden-tified and only ono theso corpses retains re-tains sufficient of tho outllno of tho features to bo readily recognizable. Two telegraph operators aro held In tho public mind to bo re-sponslblo re-sponslblo for tho awful disaster, although al-though no formal Indictment hns gono out against them. Both havo been ordered or-dered discharged from tho Borvlco of tho road. A coroner's Jury has been empanelled and will Investigate tho causo of tho accident. It develops that It. G. Whitney, who wbb being escorted to tho penitentiary by Deputy Sheriff Ed. E. Balrd, had been chained to his sent and when tho flro broko out In tho wrcckngo he had no chance whatover to escape. By t tho hand of fato his guard perished with him. Tho laws of Colorado havo a provision provis-ion mnklng It a crime to fasten prisoners pris-oners In transportation to car seats. A heart-rending story of mother lovo nnd wonted soU sncrlflco Is told by Conductor Kroegcr. who had chargo or tho Pullmnns on tho west-bound train. "I saw ono mother," ho snld, "with a llttlo babo In her nrms. Sho know that it was almost an impossibility to bo saved herself, but her only thought was of nor child. Ono hand was pinioned down under tho debris, but her head and tho other arm was free. j "Sho was trying to keep her hoad , from tho flames nnd, with her free hand, wns holding tho Infant as high in tho air as sho could. Just ns wo wero about to reach her sho gave a gasp and fell back into tho flames with tho babe." |
