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Show WRECK ON ;'; WH THE D. & R. G. 'WH In which 100 or more 'vyH sW 1 are Killed. V-sH fiH Engine and Coaches H fall through bridge. ll The Denver and Rio Grande's $9l "World's Fair K!)ci" went through a ; "41 H bridge near Pueblo Sunday evening ' ld and In the torrent-swollen liver be- Jtilfll ueath 100 or moic passcngcis lost ?H There was no warning, no time (or H tho engineer to check his train; nor a wl moment for passengers to make an flH attempt to escape. Two crowded Hl passenger cats and a baggago coach Jl plunged through the bridge into the 'tl water and so far as known not mote H than tin ce occupants escaped with Jl their lives. A diner and two sleepers H hung on the edge of the ab)ss and IH their load of human freight wassaved. H Without doubt the great majority H were drowned like rats in a trap when flH the cars were plunged without a mo- IH moots warning Into the whirling ll water thirty-live feet deep, 100 feet IH wide, and with a current strong H enough to carry thousands of pounds of weight ncail) a mile before subsld- H None of the bodies are badly muti- H latcd and all are In such condition as to be lecogniablc. Many idcntlllca- JH tions have been made by articles JH ou ml on the bodies, no persons who H viewed them lecognlzlng the features. H Many of the bodies were almost jH naked, the clothing having been torn fl completely olV. Most of them were '1 slightly bruised, probably from the jf llit shock of the wreck; but there was little blood visible wltcn they 1 weie removed from the stream. The H hands and faces were blue and Hans- lucent. An almost gencial thing iH with the coi pses was that the hands jH were raised when they were laid on i their backs, but all appealed in good |