Show E LOFTIS FOUND IN Body Is Recovered Under Small Pile of Coal at Scene of Accident HE PROBABLY SMOTHERED Watch Stopped Many Minutes After Trains Ran RanT T Together Burled Buried under a n small pile of ot coal conI 30 10 feet east cast of or his engine and ami probably probably abI ably IG 10 feel feet to the loft lort of or the tho track tho bod body of at Enl Engineer ThomaR Thomas 1 J. J Lon Loftis was discovered ored by the tho searchIng searching searching search search- ing party yesterday forenoon and at once brought ht to tie to city where It was placed In the Ebor Eber W. W Hall undertaking lug ing establishment Tho The finding of or the tho body completes the tho list of or victims of the tho freight wreck on all the Rio Grando Western Vestern road at Jordan Narrows Wednesday morning Late Lato yesterday afternoon Dr tow low ow mcle nn r of or the tho bod body after or fi which it ho be 2 said ti that it there thre worn were no marks or other evidence of or Injury which ml might ht have hn caused death leavIng leaving leav leav- ing the Inference that Ix was probably probably probably ably rendered unconscious by tho the force of or his fall fail and later s smothered to death deat beneath the coal There were no bones broken and a n slight ht bruise I and scratch on the left check wore the tho only onh marks on the tho bod body and tho the dislocation of ot the left clavicle cla was the only onh Injury disclosed by the examina tion Received herd Full Fall Had the tho searchers thou thought ht to look on the tile loft hand side of ot tho the truck track sooner the discovery ery would have Undoubtedly un undoubtedly un- un resulted much earlier In tho the search boarch and that tiis t was not dono done was duo to tho tio fact tact that It ft wa Was taken for tor granted that the man had left his engine on th the tho engineers engineer's side aide Instead of or that ho must nave ave followed the fireman and brakeman to tho thio steps on tho the ot or side sille That ho received ed a hard fall faU Is plain plainly Indicated Indi by the fact tact that It Il was as fully 30 feet east of ot whore tho the engine stood and about 15 feet teet from the track where tho the small email pile of ot coal stood under under un un- der which his boll body was found This fact seems to Indicate teat at ot tho the timothe timo the locomotives came together tog LottIe was standing tan on the tho stop step ready really to spring Into the thc darkness and hoped for safety sateh and possibly had ho he done dono doneso donoso so a fraction of a n second sooner he hc might be alive today Tho The pile of oC coal under which tho the body was ns found looked almost too small to conceal a mans man's body bOll bOlland and it was v a matter mattor of ot great surprise when the t-io discovery was made A matter of much discussion concerning con- con the responsibility for Cor tho the wreck has been tho repeated often ru rumor rumor rumor ru- ru mor that the en engineers engineer's watch was I wrong wrong several several minutes fast When hen tho the In fn the pocket of the dead engineer was examined It was found to ba have vo stopped at 35 2 35 o'clock The fact that the collision is known to have occurred at 2 25 would Indicate that tho the watch was either much faster fastert t than tian an has heretofore been believed ed or that It did not stop with tho Impact of or the body bolly against tho the ground but kept running for at least minutes When wion tho the track was waa finally cleared Thursday morning Just before noon It was Impossible to continue tho the work ork on the wreckage till a fresh crow could be obtained as tho the men had been at work for tor about 30 hours hour Everyone from tho too section hands to tho the department heads beads were worn vorn out As soon as t the e needed rest was had hall GO CO men were wera placed at work on the tho wreckage and this force was supplemented supplemented supple supple- by 25 members of at the Brotherhoods Brotherhoods Brotherhoods Brother Brother- hoods of at Engineers and Firemen re rel resulting to- to l suiting In the discovery of the body the therl only after all the wreckage on rl right hand ht side sillo o oC the tho track h had ll been removed |