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Show - Diocese of Denver ELIZABETH KELLY, Correspondent. ; The Intermountain und Colorado ; Catholic is placed on Hale at the James Clarke church goods house, bll Fifteenth street, Denver, Colo. ! CITY OF DENVER. i Victims of the Rio Grande Calamity Laid to Rest. Not in vears has a single catastro-phe catastro-phe saddened so many homes in t-olo- : raJo as the terrible railroad accident at Eden, eight miles north of Pueblo, ' on Sunday night, Aug. 7. A "ea,lza" J tion of the horrors resultant "upon tne accident to the Denver & Rio Grande train scarcely buivt in its fullness , upon Denver people until the funerals of the wreck victims were announced. So many homes in the intermountain west have been desolated by the blo , that words are expressionless in speaking speak-ing of the catastrophe. Of the twelve cm- fourteen Denver people who lost th-ir lives in the Eden wreck, eix belonged be-longed to prominent Catholic families and th funerals of these took place from the churches here-last week. J The funeral corteges wending their way from the little churches on i Thursday and Friday, going toward ; ihe cemetery, told their own sad talc j and were the inspiration of many pravers which arose from hearts overburdened over-burdened with grief. , . Not only the families enrolled in inc congregations of the diocese of Colorado, Colo-rado, who have (suffered loss in me wreck, does the Catholic community prav, but for all those whose untimely taking away has brought sorrow Inexpressible In-expressible into Colorado homes, ana t he 'prayers are not confined to those of anv particular sect or creed. Almost every funeral held last week was from a church of one denomination denomina-tion or another, and religion offered consolation where all else was powerless power-less to do so. Two Catholic churches were the scene of funerals of wreck victims and these were crowded to Ihe doors with sympathetic friends. One of the saddest incidents of the wreck which! has wrought such nns-r-rv, was the taking away of the. en-lire en-lire familv. with the exception of one son, of Edward P. Gartland. Mr. j Gartland te a member or bt. jjomnnc I congregation, and his family was well j Iviiown. Thev had for months planned j si visit to the boyhood home of Mr. j Oartland in Vermont and had been I postponing the trip that the father I anight scure a vacation and accom- I panv them. As the summer waned, he I persuaded the mother and children to ( Mart on the journey, promising to fol- j low in a week or two. The eldest son, i Frank, chose to remain with his father i . .ind make the trip later. On Sunday ! evening the family left on the long anticipated an-ticipated vacation, expecting to re-n re-n urn in time for the children to reenter re-enter school at the opening of the fall term. . Monday morning brought the lntelli-rence lntelli-rence that the entire party had been j lost with upwards of eighty other pa9- nengers in the wreck at Eden. The dis- I traded father took a special train I wnd started to the scene of the catas- I trophe Ao aid in recovering the bodies. I Almost mad with grief, he led an in- 1 dividual' searching party and, never 1 ibvii,!. virtlanc.f for over thirty hours, he found the body of his wife I :md two of the children. They were j f ."Edward P. Gtartland, jr., aged 12, and I a he only daughter of the family, Lil- I Jian, a child Throughout an- ; otl.tr night the grief-crazed father I sought in vain for The remaining chil-1 chil-1 clren and then ame to Denver to al- lend the burial' services of the others. The three cas"kets were brought into 1 the union station, and from there j rtaken to the K P McGovern under- ' taking parlors, where they were pre- I pared for inlerraent. The water had I dealt mercifully with! the bodies and s it hey were in a remarkable state of preservation. For two days the friends I of tlx? family came to view the re- I mains, and then on Friday the service I was held at St. Dominic's church, j Long before the hour set for the ser- 1 vice, the church was thronged with f relative and friend?, and when the I funeral jtrocessioai moved up the cen- I ler aisle there was not a vacant seat I and many stood with bowed heads in the back of the church. The three 1 caskets were brought in and placed i before the main altar, the mother's I bier resting directly in the center of I Hie churefc. with one of her children I ,,n either side. The pathetic spectacle 1 moved the entire congregation to tears, and eobs deep and frequent ? were heard from all parts of the J church. 1 . The family had lived for many years at 2450 West Thirty-eighth avenue, and on the North Side was exceptionally well known. The pall-bearers were se- I lected from the prominent men of St. i Dominic'? parish, all of whom had known the Gartland family for years j ;uid felt keenly the loss to the husband f Mud father. They were Messrs. W. A. St. Peters, J. M. McCarthy, Peter f' O'Toole. James O'Neil, James McCrane ? iuid John McCullough. As they took J i their places in the front pews, eight I little bovs walked up the -aisle carrying1 1 ihe white casket, wherein reposed the 1 remains of Edward Gartland. They were Francis McCarthy, Martin Mc- I can hv, William tit. Peters. Girard I Waller, Herbert Casmon, James Cas-mon Cas-mon and Frank Fowler, all little play- I mates of the dead boy. They also act- S ,d as nail-bearers for little Lillian 1 Gartland. whose casket was laden with I the floral offerings of her little class- J mates. The beautiful-flowers covering. J -in three caskets attested the.lovo and J empathy of a host of friends, j Mr. Gartland and his little son Frank, ;iged 34, were accompanied by Mrs. Kate Handrihan, the mother or -mis. Gartland. and Mr. Gartland's brother-in-law, David Miller, both of whom came from S Louis? to attend the last services. ' ' .i The church of St. Dominic at W est Twenty-fifth and Grove streets was heavily draped in mourning for the triple funeral service, and streamers of black entwined each pillar and swung across the ceiling. Solemn high mass, of requiem was celebrated by Rev. Father Fa-ther Gavin, O. P.. assistant pastor of HI. Dominic's church, while Kev. Joseph. Jo-seph. P. Carrigan, pastor of St. Patrick's, Pat-rick's, a neighboring church, preached the sermon. Father -Carrigan's words were full of. consolation to the stricken strick-en father and son, and made a deep and lasting impression on the large congregation, breathing as they did of religion and sympathy. The funeral took place at Mount Olivet cemetery." After the lapse of six days the recovery recov-ery of the bodies of the two other children chil-dren had been practically abandoned, and Mr. Gartland went back to his daily rountine affairs, his terrible grief i augmented y tie tact mat not in death could he minister unto his loved ones. Monday night a searching ! party working their way through the j debris sixteen miles below Pueblo, i came upon the body of Ralph Gartland. Gart-land. the 2-year-old son of Mrs. KateJ Gartland, and the body was brought to Denver. It is being held here until further search is pursued for the remaining re-maining child, Walter, aged 9. Then the two little caskets will be lowered into a grave at Mount Olivet cemetery 1 beside the three newly made. With that act the closing chapter in the Eden catastrophe, as far as Mr. Gartland Gart-land is concerned, closes. Another funeral brought about by the Eden wreck was that of Miss Ida K rotter, a member of St. Patrick's par- ish. Miss Krotter was" a young woman of rare grace and, charm of manner, and her death has shocked a wide circle cir-cle of friends. She resided with her aged father and two sisters, at 1961 I ! Doulder street The f uncial took place " ' from there on Thursday afternoon of last week, going from there to St. Pat-j Pat-j lick's church, where a brief eulogy was pronounced by Rev. Father. Carrigan. Good Shepherd Picnic a Success. At the sperjal meeting of the Good Shepherd Aid society, held la?t week, -H a complete report of the returns from the recent picnic was made by the treasurer, Dennis W. Mullen.- The report re-port shows that $1,433.03 was cleared by the picnic. Itemized, the receipts were as follows: Sale of tickets- ,-, Miss Edith McAtee I- James A. Clarke "7 The sisters ' Mrs. D. W. Mullen -0.50 Mrs. Joseph Walsh Mrs. M. A. McClellan, f-3.0 Miss M. O'Keefe ' Miss O. MeNamara W. J. Mykens " J-JJ A. Mantey Mrs. C. A. Frageau - .4-? Mrs. M. Hubbard 1-H F. J. Kavanaugh I J. P. Rafferty lb-40 ! The booths I Inside Inn (dinner) ;v, K ! Cash from Mr?. M. A. McClellan 10.00 : Ice cream parlor jS.--' ' Soda fountain Highland. lunch l f Palace of sweets -.Jb Rustic mill Japanese tea house Popcorn and peanuts Derby day race M1" Boating . "-JO Cash from Hanigan Bros trolumbine Music company ..... -00 Commission on toy balloons .... 2.00 Total.!.."! r..-.. U'fJ-ll Less expenses ....... l4l-'u j Net proceeds $1,433.09 ! The coupons attacnea to me Licnei-, upon which a prize drawing took place, brought Mrs. Toeppe of 2730 Arapahoe, street the $25 in gold. The second prize -$15, went to the House of the ..Good Shepherd. Those in charge of the various va-rious booths and to whom is-due in a great measure the success of the pic- 1 nic, are: Inside Inn Mrs. McCrystal and Mrs. James Walsh, assisted by Mrs. Thomas Day. Mrs. W. S. Cream, Mrs. N. J. Hartley, Mrs. M. A. McClellan, Mrs. A; j Bohanna, Mrs. M. Egan. Mrs. Freise, ; Mrs. Besant, Mrs. Ferguson, Mrs. Dut-; ton, Mrs. Copley, Mrs. Ashe, Mrs. Mc-Gillicuddy," Mc-Gillicuddy," Mrs. Van Horn and Messrs,-McCrystal Messrs,-McCrystal and J. Egan. Ice Cream Parlor Miss Kate Flaherty, Fla-herty, assisted by Mrs. J. Thams, Miss Anna Morrissey, Mrs. E. C Burton, Mrs. P. F. McCallin. Soda Fountain Miss Helen Harrington Harring-ton and Miss Mae Gavin, assisted by Miss H. Long, Mrs. O. Jones, ' Misses Mary Harrington, Anna Harrington, Elizabeth Harrington. O'Toole, Lees, Bessie McGovern, Helen McGovern; O'Farrell, Toohey, Kuntzmuller, Walsh, and Bessie Phillips. Highland Lunch Miss Octavia MeNamara. Me-Namara. assisted by Mrs. C. A. Frageau, Fra-geau, Mrs. Lucy Guard, Mrs. B. M. White and Mrs. Berry. Palace of Sweets Miss Bronan and Mrs. F. N. Hesse, assisted by Misses Mabel McCambridge, Rose and Grace Gibbon. Rustic Well Mrs. George Allan Smith, assisted by Mrs. Williamson, Misses May Mullen and Nellie Fin-: nerty. Japanese : Tea Mrs. Knight, assisted by Mrs. McPhillips, Mrs. Grant, -Mrs. Curran and Misses Antoinette Blackburn, Black-burn, Margie McBride, Gracie Walsh, Agnes Day, Ternie and Katie Keefe and the Misses Kenehan. Popcorn Mrs. Russell, assisted by Misses Hanigan and Burns. Derby Day Race Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Riordan. Dancing P. F. McCallin. assisted by Miss O'Keefe and Messrs. W. S. Crean and Murphy. Boating W. J. Mykens. Mrs. George Allan Smith, secretary of the arrangements committee, desires to extend her thanks through the columns col-umns of The Intermountain Catholic to all these people, and, in addition, to Mr. Lawrence Balfe, who was in charge of the sporting programme. She includes in-cludes in her message of thanks the merchants who donated the prizes, and .. the friends who attended the picnic at Berkeley lake. Father Phillips Returns Home. From his sad errand to his brother's bedside, Rev. P. A. Phillips has returned re-turned and has once more taken up his duties at the cathedral. Father Phillips Phil-lips has the sympathy of hundreds of friends in his bereavement, and daily prayers are being offered for the repose of the soul of his beloved brother, Frank Finley Phillips. The funeral of Mr. Phillips was held from St. Joseph's church at St. Paul, Minn., the family home. High mass of requiem was sung by Father P. A. Phillips, chancellor of the Denver diocese, dio-cese, and the sermon was preached by Rev. Father Stewart, pastor of. St. Joseph's. Jo-seph's. Of the death of Mr. Phillips, the Dispatch of St. Paul says: "The demise of Frank Phillips marks the end of a laborious life. He was the youngest of a family, of nine, .whose estimable es-timable "mother now 80 years old, is still hale and' hearty, living with her. daughter, Mrs. J. B. La Belle, at 313 Igleheart street. "Mrs. Frank Phillips survives her husband, with two boys and a girl. She is a sister-in-law of. Dr. Cagnac Marr quia, who was but a few years since a prominent surgeon of St. Paul," Priests May Adopt Automobiles. The practicability of adopting the aUr tomobile as a means of covering territory terri-tory between isolated churches and missions in the sparsely settled districts of the state, is being considered just now. In western Kansas the fashion .has been set by a Father L. E. Wei-' miehr, who has a territory covering 100 miles along the Colorado border. The churches are scattered and the use of the automobile facilitates matters to a considerable extent, being a great saving sav-ing of time and annoyance. 1 The diocese of Denver embraces a district for the most part hilly or mountainous, and for this fact the automobile au-tomobile would not be of much service. It would, however, be invaluable in the eastern part of the state where a level plain stretches, and where the churches .are few and far between. s The plan is now under consideration and would save the expense of horses ordinarily used under the present plaiu Mr. Donleavy Elected. - By unanimous yote, Stephen1 J.. Donleavy, Don-leavy, a well known Denver man, was elected state president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians at the recent state convention at Pueblo. Mr. Donleavy has done., much to advance the order in the west. ' Personal. Rev. Cornelius O'Farrell returned late last week from the state Hibernian I convention at Pueblo. . Miss. Nellie Kirker, Miss Anna O'Don-nell O'Don-nell and Miss Julia Burke, representing the Woman's Auxiliary to branch No. 1 of the Ancient Order of Hibernians at the annual state convention held at Pueblo last week, have returned home. - - . Miss Helen Harrington has returned from a summer spent at Excelsior Springs, Mo. f Miss Emma Hague and Mr. Charles Hague went up last week to pay a visit to Miss Theodora O'Donncll at the lat-ter's lat-ter's home near Longmont. Misses Annie and Rose Longan will return Saturday from St. Louis, where they 'have been1. . for the past two months. , Mrs. -Longan and Miss Barie returned last week. ... . The wedding of Miss Mary ,Mangan and Mr. Thomas Durkin took place at the Church of the Annunciation last Thursday. Monsignor Henry Robinson officiated. Father M. W. . Donovan of Georgetown George-town was in Denver last week. Mr. Fred K. Paul of the cathedral I parish has been called east by the death of his brother. .George Fohy of the cathedral parish is enjoying a vacation at St. Louis. , PUEBLO, COL. j Mr. and Mrs. John W. Sullivan were made the happy parents of twin sons Saturday morning at the family home. 940 East Abriendo avenue. There have been nine children born to Mr. and Msr. Sullivan and the two bom yesterday yes-terday makes the total eleven.. All are living and in good health. |