New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-11
THIRTY DEAD IN THE %RECk

THIRTY DEAD IN THE "RECK
TERRIBLE RAILROAD DlsAsThH iN
COLORADO.
HEAD ON AT HIGH sPEED-THE WRECK SCI
ON FIRE BY AN EXPLODING GAS TANK
MANY KILLED AND GNJuRED-THE
CONDUCTOR OF THE STOCK
TRAIN ARRESTED.
Newcastle COL Sept. 10.-The most dis-
astrous railway wreck that has ever hapPeneu
I'm Colorado occurred az 12:2o this morning d
mile and a half west OF this town Denver anu
Rio Grande passenger train No. j. "estoou"u'
came into collision with a Colorado Miu'ahu
stock train going east. wrecking both engines
and several cars in each train. Shortly after the
collision fire broke out in the ruins. The mall
baggage and express cars smoking-car day
coach and a tourist sleeper were burned y
rurober Of Messengers who we're not killed OUT
RIGHT lint who were pinned in the wreckage ana
could not be extricated, persisted in the flames
There were about two hundred passengers
After twelve hours incessant work by the
wrecking crews in clearing away the DEBRIS ana
recovering the bodies Of those who perlshed' 1t
t. ga, ;r,nossibe 10 do more than estimate the
loss of life. and not all OF those known u oe
doad have heen identified The names Of many
of The unfortunates will never he known ana II
10 nossible that the number killed will always
ne in doubt According % the be Information
obtairabe now. fully thitty persons are believed
- have nerished. while 49, have been taken out
~ the wreck suffering from serious injuries.
. martial list Of the dead and injured is as
follows:
HARTMAN. Mrs Alexander. ami ;wo children Her'her'
oSTRANDER engineer.
HOLLAND Robert. fireman.
LEEPER Charles. Clarion. PENN
KEENAN,. James. postal eek
ERRGCK James. Chicago
INJURED.
HARTMAN. Alexande- E~rsner. nj both leg. broken;
will die -,
GORDON. Robert, engineer rup'ured and terribly
HINES fireman. terribly burned; cannot recover.
CORNELL. Miss Pearl. Oregon leg broken
STANDARD John II. Blackfoot Idaho; cut ard burned;
both legs broken.
SHEETS J. II. Iowa. risht hand cut
sHoiTz r J.. Clarion. Perm: slightly hurt
FOLEY James C.. express messenger. Denver; bruised
MSS EMER. William, express Hessehsei' De'''i'
uAwrnoRNE. W. J.. conductor; bruised.
MAVOY p. IL. Victor COL. burned about head PACK
MANNIX. FRANK H.. Victor Col; slightly bruised
BIRCXLEY r.. H.. back hurt
ISRAEL. MARY and son. Nathan both horribly cut
TYSON. o Y. bruises.
KNAPP brakeman. leg crushed.
YEAGER J. e.. Victor, COLI badly hurt
J. Fl. Standard and Alexander Hartman have
beon removed 70 the hospital at Salida Roth
will probab bly, die Hartman Is minister from
Uersoher. who was travelling with his wife
and two children to the coast.
The trains met on "A curve round a mountain,
and there was no opportunity TO avoid the wreck
or even to slacken speed. Both trains appear to
have been going at full speed-about forty miles
an hour for the passenger and thirty for the
freight.
The Rio Grande Jurction road. on which the
wreck occurred. is operated Jointly by the Den
Yer and Rio Grande and Colorado Midland COM
ranies II is single-track ROAD, standard
gauge seventy seven miles long. running from
Castle 10 Grand Junction. connecting the
two roads with the Rio Grand Western. The
Rio Grande passenger train was due at New
Castle at II % p. M. but was az least an hour
late.
The general belief To the cause or the ac-
cident is that Conductor Burbank Of the stock
train made a mistake OF ten minutes IN hgur-
ing on the time when the passenger train passed
Now Castle and that he was chiefly responsible
for the disaster
Burbank has boon arrested a careful search
around the Midland engine failed to reveal the
remains Of Ostrander. the engineer 1t is be-
licved that ne jumped from his engine In time
to save his life. and. realizing that the accident
III, ne1 "A
w L. Hawthorne. conductor of the passenger
train was IN the smoking-ca at the time Of the
collision End was severely bruised He says that
tho gas cylinder under one OF the wrecked cars
exploded and everything appeared TO he in
flames within a short time. He does not think
thar more than two or three passengers in the
snoking-car were burned to death. The pas
sengers in tho day coach Jared the worst Dat Of
twenty nine people in tnat coach only SIN are
known to have escaped
train lanes G. Foley and William 5. Messegar.
both of Denver. had desperate nght Tor their
lives They had piled up the through baggage
in one end OF the and were busy with the
400 cases I'm the other end when the shock
came They were pitched headlong about the
car. and when 1t toppled over they were stunned
and bruised by the loose baggage. IL was sew
eral minutes before they were able to aid them
selves Then the commenced To MI with
smoke. and death by burning or sutocation
and began battle with an axe 10 liberate them
selves Finally as the car burst into flames,
they saw lieht through the hole they were
| cutting. and with the aid OF some men outside
| they were able to pull themselves through II.
Miss Pearl Cornell. Of oregon, had her leg
| broken She was returning from visit To
| friends in the East. and was in collision at
| Glen Falls. Idaho. while on her way east
| r IL Daniels the passenger brakeman, who
| was unhurt came back to this place and in
! formed the railway officials OF the accident. a
| snaciol train was sent out with physicians and
| nurles as soon as possible. At $40 a. m. an
| other special relief train was sent from Glen
| wood Springs where news OF the wreck caused
| great excitement. Neighboring ranch houses
| were used for the reception OF the injured.
Al least two cars of stock were wrecked, and
| ,hn rnnd ,vns strnMn with dead animals. Some