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Show WRECKED IN OTE PASS A Colorado Midland Train Strikes Broken Rail. SEVEN COACHES PILED UP One Man Killed and Thirty Moro Passengers Moro or Less Seriously Injured, Three or Tour Probibly Fatally Tho Cars That Left tho Kails Contained Tlireo Hundted and Seventy-One Passengers nnd It Is Miraculous That Death List Was Not Enormous. COLORADO BPHINGS. Colo, June 30 At 10 10 Sundiy morning an excursion excur-sion train on the Colorado Midland rail-roid rail-roid coming down Ute piss from Cripple Crip-ple Creek, struck a bioken mil nnd seven curs piled Into a shapeless heap One man, Trnncls M English a prominent prom-inent musician of Ihls city, wns Instant-1 Instant-1 killed nnd about thirty other pissen-gcis pissen-gcis werti more or less stilnusly Injured, In-jured, threo or four piobtbly fatall) The wieek ncruncd nt an abandoned station at Culber'B siding ono mile nbove Cnscad.. In I'to pass, and twelve miles from Colorado f-prltifcs A passe pas-se ni,cr rnlo war that has be. n In effect for seven months b.twern the railroads running from this rlty to Crlpplo Creek had bun tailed off, tho rates to go up July 1st, nnd ns n result tho train was ctowded to Its uttermost Tho enrs that left the rails and went over the embs.nkm.nt north of tho tuitk rontalned 3"1 passengcis nnd It w is hy tho most miraculous escapes tint could be Imagined that the denth list was not enormous The second car on the train, a day coach was t rushed to kindling wool being turnet completely over on Us t nd so that the reir end of the coach was forvv nd The third eoach plunged clear through tho second and It nu In the forward 1 ml of this car that Mr I.nglish wis killed Ills nock Was caught between two seats und ho strati-gled strati-gled before help rould rrnrh him l)r II P Ptckird of Gillette, Colo, who was en 101110 to this city. woe. tho only ph)slclin on the train Ho had his Instruments with him nnd did most heroic und efficient service befoio ph)sl-clans ph)sl-clans and relief supplies rould bo rushed to the sceno from this city. |