Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-01-16 | Page 1 | Twenty-Five Killed and Thirty Are Injured in a Wreck on the Rio Grande

TWENTY FIVE KilLED AND THIRTY ARE INJURED IN A I WRECK ON THE RIO GRANDE CRANDE Glen Glenwood oo Springs Colo Cob Jan 15 five 15 persons are belie believed ed to be dead and thi thirty or more injured in a a. a wreck of west bound passenger train No 5 on the Denver Dellver Rio lb Grande railroad at Dotsero twentY miles wet west of here at 10 1030 30 0 o'clock clock tonight Ten bodies have been taken from the t wreck reck Details of the accident and the the names names of tile the injured dead and injured cannot time tune be learned at this Among the Identified dead Is Is' Gus Gua Olson Olsen n oC of or SaUd a. a Colo Cob engineer er on pas passenger ng r The wreck was as caused by col the collEsion cot col- lEsion of r an eastbound freight train which hall hail entered a a. siding Hut bill had hadnot I not not completely left the main main line When hen tho the crash came the engine and cars of tho Urn struck t the tae freight The ho engine eng was demolished d and the i cars of ot the passenger were Vere overturned Many of ot the victims were pinned under uner un un- der iler er the wreckage and were extricated te by fellow p passengers engers In the rear coaches which were not destroyed The passenger was going about thirty thir- thir ty tv miles an hour when the tho wreck oc oc- oc c rrell It Is beHoved that the tIle engineer engineer engineer engi engi- neer thought the freight had made the siding and did not notice the rear end of oC the freight still sUII on the main line until It was sas too late him to stop He lie clung to his hla post and was vas killed A relit relief train wa Wall dispatched at once from Glenwood Springs with all aU the doctors and nurses In town It Is ex expected OX- OX that tho tImO hasp Ital hospital train will arrive ar nr- ar- ar rive nyc 11 here Ire about o 4 clock In the morn morn- ing There Is no no telephone at t which 1 im 18 merely a siding aiding on the Rio Hlo Grande The Tho lh nearest station or of any size elzo Is Glenwood Springs A second special was sent to the scene scena of the wreck when reports reached here that ten bodies had been talt taken n put of at the Later Laterre ports from Dotsero say su that two orthe of or the passenger cars wore completely demolished and that thero were about 75 people In these two jars ears i Dotsero Is eight miles from Gypsum Gyp Gyp- i sum tb time the nearest telephone office