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Show SEVENTY-ONE PERSONS KILLED SN .TERRIBLE WRECK ON RIO GRANDE MI Persons in Chair Car, Except Little Four-Year-Old Girl, Meet Death, Eight Being Decapitated, and Some So Badly Mutilated That Bodies Are Unrecognizable Fifty Injured, Many Fatally Failure of Engineer to Read Time Correctly Caused Disaster. i Jeriuyn of Scranton, Pa., and Samuel S- Morse. ' The companv is a holding concern for the Gulf, Texas & Western Rail- I road Company of Texas, which is constructing con-structing a 500-mllo standard gauge, road from Burro Fery. in eastern Texas, Tex-as, to Benjamin, in the western part of the state. two mall clerk6, Hammond and Fraz-ier, Fraz-ier, on No. 5, were killed, but It later reveloped that it is the custom to cut out the mail car at Pueblo and send j it-on by No. 1, an hour and a half ' : l?ter, so as not to delay the through ', (ruin by stopping to load the heavy ! mall that they generally pick up at Pueblo. Victims Were in Chair Car. Glenwood Springs, Jan. 16. It was i from the chair car that the dead of the wreck were taken and twenty bodies bod-ies have been recovered so far. Dead. 1' Gus Olsen. engineer on tho passenger passen-ger train, Sallda. Seventy passengers, names unknown. un-known. Known Injured. ' Sig Olsen. engineer on freight train; Ladly injured, may die. J. T. Jeffray, engineer on the sec-1 sec-1 end freight engine, badly injured, may die. . Fifty passengers, names not known. All the Sleeping cars remained on the track and no one in them 'was injured. in-jured. . The passenger train crashed into , the head engine of the freight train I going across a switch at Dotsero, I which is a blind siding. The chair Cr was telescoped and the first pas-i pas-i senger coach was wrecked. It Is said only a single person in the day coach escaped. Meager details have been received i here. The relief train will probably reach here with the dead some timo this morning, i It was impossible to carry the ! wounded around the wreck. This delayed de-layed the relief to the passengers for . more than an hour. The passenger train is said to have been going at a good rate of speed when it reached the siding at Dol-fTo. Dol-fTo. It is tupposed that the engineer engi-neer of the passenger thought the freight had passed to the siding and was going too rapidly to stop his train when he saw the danger. The great J locomotive attached to the passenger train was demolished and the chair car and passenger coach were turned on their sides and shattered. With the arrival of the relief train fiom Glenwood it is now possible to start the work of taking out the bodies. bod-ies. The injured were pinned under the wreckage and the heroic work of the passengers of the rear cars saved many lives. Some of the injured are J terribly mangled, and the death list, i it Is feared, will be greatly increased. Train No. 5, which was wrecked, left Denver this morning and was due here at 10:20 tonight The train was well fille3 with passengers, many of whom were to get off at this point. Dotsero is a blind siding, with no station and no telegraph office. Wrhen tho relief train reached the scene it was found that the long string ot freight cars on the freight train were m the way and the only way they I could be disposed of was to back them I to Shoshone, eight miles from the j wreck. Denex, Jan. 16 Seventy-one dead, fifty injured, at least thirty of whom will probably die. Thai is the record of the wreck of the Denver & Rio Grande passenger train, No. 5, at 10:30 o'clock last night, near Dotsero, j twenty miles from Glenwood Springs, i ' i.ccordlng to a long-distance telephone message from Glenwood Springs this morning To add to the horror of the wreck, the second relief train, loaded with injured in-jured on its way to GlenwooS, has j been tied up by the derailment of some ! freight cars. The first relief train bearing a number of the more slightly slight-ly injured, reached Glenwood this n'orning, bringing reports of the wreck which appears to have been one of tht worst in the history of railroading. ! Most of the slaughter was done In J the chair car. Of sixty-nine passen- ' gers In that coach, sixty-eight are ' -aid to have been killed. The one i human being to escape was a six- year-old girl, who was found under the ! dead body of her mother, and who Is ; too dazed even to remember her name, further than It Is "Alice." I No further Identifications of the ' uead have been made, according to the reports reaching Glenwood. The dead j are in many instances so horribly mutilated that identification will be ery difficult A partial list of injured follows: W. G. Maxly, 1347 Walnut St., L03 Augele6. Thomas Elliott, Pendleton, Iowa. W. Adair, Ravenna. Ohio. T. B. Miller, Denver. . . , " Mra. G. Blanke, Wapolln,' Mo. Charles P. Mance. . .Mrs. Charles P. Mance, Wm. Barber, Anthony, Kansas. ' J. H. Hayden and child. Buffalo. Ok. Fred Jen?en, Iowa Falls, la Mrs. Nellie J. Morton. Standish, Ca , Mrs. A. W. McCauley and child. W. C. Moxey, Los Angeles. J. B. Thompson, Bookens, S. D. F. Chandler, Denver. Clyde E. McCown, Pullman conductor. conduc-tor. Clarence Vassau, Middlebury, Vt. Among those who were on the traiu find escaped are' C. P. Gillette. Mrs. C. P. Wallace, Grand Junction. Mrs. Sarah McClean,. Grand Junction. Junc-tion. ' Mrs. F. P. Robinson and two children, chil-dren, Grand Junction. - Ernest Glllpatrlck, Grand Junction. Dr Charlotte Hall. St.-Paul. Emma Strafford, Cleveland, Ohio. Mary E. Spear, Cleveland. Jlertle Spear, Cleveland. E. L. Roff. Wlnside. Neb. Hugh Gregg and family, Harrisburg, III. D. E. Cannon, Twin Falls, Idaho. . Denver, Jan. 16. According to information in-formation received here,'the wreck was caused by the failure of Engineer Gus Olsen of the passenegr train to i correctly read the time indicated by his watch. When near Dotsero, Ol-fcen Ol-fcen looked at hla watch and read the time to, be 9:45 p. m. It waa then ?':50. Thinking he had plenty of time to make the next siding below Dotsero, Dot-sero, he pulled tho throttle of his engine en-gine wide open, and was making 45 miles an hour on a down grade when he collided with the freight which was laboriously climbing up the hill under a full head of steam of two bjg engines.. - When the passenger did not stop at Dotsero, Conductor Edward McCurdy signalled to the engineer to stop the train, but it was too late to avert the disaster, and the two trains crashed together with a awful roar and terrible ter-rible Impact. The three big engines telescoped, and when they came to a standstill, resembled one huge piece of twisted steel and iron rods and mechanism. me-chanism. The combination baggage and express ex-press car,' the smoker and the ( (Jo'y coach, which followed the engine, tel. ' escoped, while tho three heavy Pullman Pull-man sleepers and diner crushed the entire mas3 against the engines. The hght coaches were smashed, as though they had been eggshells. Every person except one In the chair car was killed. Eight of the passengers passen-gers were decapitated as though hy a guillotine, their heads rolling far from their bodies. The bodies of the dead i lor the most part are so mutilated that identification may take many hours. The only person who escaped death in the chalrcar was Alice Williams, ! aped four, from some point, in Iowa, i She was found under her dead moth- j er's body, slightly bruised, but. cov- 1 ered from head to foot with blood; Tho child was taken to Glenwood Springs on the second relief train. The wreckage caught fire immediately immedi-ately after the collision and a holocaust holo-caust was aerled by those .passen-gern .passen-gern who were not killed or Heriounly Injured, and the members of the, train crews, who secured shovels and hoards and put out the blaze with Fnow, which Is piled In huge banks alongside the tracks, It was at first supposed that the ! NEW RAILROAD IN TEXAS. New York. Jan.. 1G. The Gulf. Tex-j Tex-j as & Western Railroad company has just been incorporated under the laws I of New Jersey with $12,500,000 capital, j all common Rtock. The incorporators I are Jos. J. Jerroyn and George B. |