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Show FORGOT THEIR ORDERS. Another Disastrous Wreck as Result of Carelessness of Train Crew. Fnllure upon tho part of n freight crew to observe orders resulted In a oolllslon on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad which resulted In tho Injury of fifteen persons, one of them fntally. The wreck occurred nenr Portland, Colo., at an early hour Saturday morning. morn-ing. Train No C. the San Frnnclsco-Salt Loko-Chlcago Kxpress, while running about thlrty-dvo miles an hour, on time, and with n clear right of way, whon within a mile and a half of Portland, Port-land, crashed head on Into a westbound west-bound freight train running twenty miles an hour and a fearful wreck resulted re-sulted The nccldent was duo to tho failure of the freight train, which was loto, to take the siding nt Portlnnd and allow tho passenger train, which wns running run-ning on schedule time and had tho right of way, to pass. |