The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-11
CARS WERE TOTALLY DEMOI-
ISHED, AND IN FLAMES.
CONDUCTOR TRIED TO STEAL A STATION
Conductor Has Been Arrested, and Engineer
Supposed to Have Jumped Impossible to
More Than Estimate the Loss of Life
Many Of the Unfortunates viii
Never be Known.
Never be Known.

wreck in the history of Colorado occur
red at 1925 this morning on the Dem
yer and Rio Grande and the Colorado
Midland Railways, one and half miles
west of here. After twelve hours work,
it is impossible to more than estimate
the loss of life and not even those known
to be dead have been identified. Many
of the unfOrtunates, will never be known.
and it is possible that the number killed
will always be in doubt. From the best
information. fully thirty persons are
believed to have perished while 1S5 were
taken out of the wreck suffering from
serious injuries.
The wreck was caused by head end
collision between Denver and Rio
Grande passenger train running at the
rate of 40 miles an hour and a special
Colorado Midland stock train running
ut 80 miles. SO terrific was the concus-
sion that both engines. baggage and ex-
press cars, smoker and day coaches and
two stock cars were totally demolished
and the track torn up for rods in both
directions. To add to the horror of the
scene. the wreck caught fire from an ex-
plosiOn of a pintsch gas tank on the pas
senger train and burned so rapidly that
many passengers pinned beneath the
debris were burned to death before help
could reach them.
The most generally accepted theroy as
to the cause of the wreck seems to be
that Conductor Burbank, of the Mid
land special, anticipating the time of
| the passenger, undertook to ''steal q
station" and beat the passenger into
New Castle. Burbank escaped uninjur-
cd and upon orders from Coroner Clark
4 l.,
if. Midland engineer Ostrand is missing
and thorough search about his engine
fails to reveal any vestige of his remains.
1t is thought that when he saw the
threatened danger he jumped
The dead as recognized are:
+. j. KEENAN,, mail agent, of Den
yer.
ROBERT S. HOLLAND, fireman, D.
and Il. @. Railway, Salida.
MRS. ALEXANDER HARTMAN
and two sons, of Herscher, Ills.
JAMES ERRICK. Chicago
CHARLES LEEPER, Clarion, Pa.
WM. GORDON, Engineer passenger
train.
WM. HINES. fireman.
The injured:
REV. ALIEN HARTMAN, Herscher,
ILL.,, both legs broken and badly burned.
JOHN ii. STANDER, Blackfoot,
Idaho, leg broken, face cut and burned
and bruised.
MISS PEARL CORNELL, Alciet,
Oregon, hip dislocated.
j. G. YEAGER, Toledo, Ohio, injured
internally.
j. LOGMAN, Whittier. Cal, slightly
wounded. @
MRS. MARY ISRAEL, st. Paul,
Mimi, slightly injured internally.
j. +. SNYDER, Independence, Kan
sas. slightly burned.
ID. II. MANENEY, Victor, Col, face
burned.
Q. V. Titson, Cooker, Mo-, cut badly
about head.
r. II. BRICKLEY, Chicago. back in
jured.
j. G. YOUNG, st. Louis, cut in fore
head, not serious.
THOMAS NASH, Mohab, Utah, left
arm broken, badly burned in face.
FRANK p. MANNIX, Victor, Col,
bruised.
r. W. SHOT, Leeper, Pa, badly
bruised.
BkAhkMAN KNAPP, leg crushed.
JAMES g. FOLEY, express messen-
ger, bruised.
The case of Engineer Ostrander, of the
freight train, is still in doubt.
Charred fragments of limbs and bodies
of number of persons have been taken
out of the ruins, but it is not likely that
any more bodies will be positively iden-
titled and it seems certain that the num-
ber killed will remain in doubt.
AS soon as the news of the wreck
reached Glenwood relief train was sent
from that place and this afternoon the
more seriously wounded were removed to
the Denver and Rio Grande Company's
hospital at Salida.
Ten bodies were found in the ruins of
one car and four in another. The charred
remains of two women, were found.
Their heads and lower limbs were burn
ed off. In the dressing room Of each
was found lady's gold watch, upon
one of which was inscribed ''From Moth
or to Mamie"
Telegrams from all parts OF the coun-
try inquiring for friends and relatives are
pouring in constantly.