Show I V RIO O I 1 D EGINE An Au engine on tho Denver Donver Rio Grande Grando railroad exploded this nus morning near icar Soldiers Summit killing three men mun menThe The rho dead W V A GOODALE GOODAl E engineer ARTHUR B D SPEAR fireman E C brakeman Bodies Found The force of the thc explosion watt was such 1 as to hurl the flue unfortunate engine feet from the scene tear the tho enormous holler boiler from its 1 inch wrought iron ron frame and ami pond the great mass hurtling through the air feet with the back head bead and find crown sheet torn toni to shreds and spreading out the flues In hi all directions lions Tho The firemans body was m found burled buried under the th debris where the flue downward force of the explosion had excavated a holo hole ton tell feet deep and destroyed the roadbed The brake maas body was discovered under underneath neath the overturned tender The right of oC way Va was WS demoralized for some little distance obstructing travel and It was to communicate cate bj by b tapping the thip wire with nith sources of help as the concussion had blown down all the tho wires In fact it was 7 50 this morning before b fore wire con connections connections could be restored s Sc 50 u that a wrecking outfit could be he summoned from froni Helper arriving at al althe atthe the scene by ly h noon Tucker also sept out a n full wrecking with ith a force Coree of o men so 80 that the roadbed was sum sufficiently repaired for trains to pass on the west vest track at Trains Nos NosI 1 I 5 and anti 7 were delayed only nl forty fort minutes but No 62 was faS heM held for neat near neath nearl 1 l h four hours Master Mechanic Den Ben Denn n ll went down on No 6 G this morn rig JU Tho The bodies were expected to arrive about ahou 2 p pm in on extra Western Pa chic engine No IS 13 Undertaker Evans was notified to lo take talce charge of or the bodies Probable Cause As all the tho men who were on the engine were killed and the engine completely demolished an investigation LIon bit can hardly more than establish the tho fact that It was a crown sheet explosion From the lie nature of oC things suspicions point toward carelessness born of sleepiness as the tho cause of tho disaster With Wab the engine running up hill bill there is Js a maximum depth of oC water on the crown sheet so that lint chances of trouble from front this source arc reduced to a minimum But Dul after nn un engine has hns pitched over oer the divide the tho waters depth over the crown sheet tends to a minimum requiring watchfulness and care on the part of the lie runner It Is then that he must watch his water gauge frequently test teat his gauge cocks cocles on the of tho the boiler boller and a d have his Injectors In prime working order ready to in instantly Instantly respond It Its rs s though probable aIde able that the must have havo dropped off of to sleep the tho engine was making steam rapidly and working hard up the grade and before they were aware the evaporating water left the tho crown sheet unprotected the tremendous steam pressure made lie he burning sheet of steel yield the soon sooner Boon Booner sooner er and then the explosion came carno send senJ sending lag ing in three souls into eternity without notice I I |