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Show THREE TRAINMEN KILLED WHILE AT POST OF OUT! Heavy Travel Occosoned by Elks' Convention Results In Wreck of Passenger and Stock Train. Grand Junction. A westbound special spe-cial passenger train carrying about ninety persons to tho ElkB convention conven-tion In Los Angeles, nt 3:22 o'clock Saturday morning, July 10, collided with an extra stock train, east-bound, east-bound, ono mllo east of Whitehead and about sixty miles west of Grand Junction. It was a terrific hcadon collision, col-lision, both trains moving at fast speed. Engineer Heldeman nnd Fireman Fire-man Helnze of the passonger train wero killed and Baggageman Vaughn's mangled remains wero found hours later in the debris of tho bag-gago bag-gago car. Tho freight engine crew, it Is reported, Jumped for their lives. Frolght Brakeman Burke was also In-lured In-lured badly, but not fatally. None of tho passengers was fatally Injured, but many of them suffered cuts and bruises, tho most serious of which woro scalp wounds. The stock train consisted of live double-decked cars loaded with sheep. Two of these cars wero demolished and many of tho animals killed. Tho I nssenger engine wns totally wrecked and Its tender was piled partly on top of tho first sleeper, tho baggage car between being reduced to kindling wood. The first sleeper was stove In at the front and tho washroom nnd lavatory was demolished. Someone had bungled In reading their orders, it is claimed, or else tho special had licen forgotten, as four trains preceded it. |