Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-09-10
A Rio Grande Passenger Train
ColIides With a Colorado
Midland Stock Train.
TAlRTY-FlvE ARE KILLED
A Greater Number of Miners
Meet Death in an Explo-
sion at a Mine.
OTHER DEADLY MlSHAPS

NEwcAsTLE, Colo, September To-
Rio Grande passenger train No. col
lided with Colorado Midland stock
train, a mile west OF here, at O'Clock
this morning. Both engines were
badly wrecked. Two stock cars, q
baggage car, smoker, day coach and
the tourist cars caught fire.. Ten per-
sons, horribly wounded, have been
taken from the wreck, which burned
The number Of dead 10 placed between
twenty-five and thirty, names not yet
available. The passenger train con-
sisted of an express car, a smoker, a
day coach, chair car and two sleep
ers. 1t was manned by M. Haw-
thorne, conductor; T. +. Daniels,
brakeman; Billy Gordon, engineer, and
Bob Holland. fireman. Engineer Os-
trauder and Fireman Hines manned me
Midland freight engine. The name of
the conductor Of the cattle train, who
i'blamed for the catastrophe. cannot
be learned, nor can he or Ostrander be
located. 1t Is thought fha. .i,fn we're
kined, rnuugh railroad official gave
the opinion that they had made for the
hills.
The dead in the wreck on the Rio
Grande train, this morning, number
twenty five, and nearly fifty are in
iured OF the injured, at least ten
persons will die. The dead are:
Mrs. A. Hartman, Hersher, III !;
two Hartman children; Engineer
0strander; Robert Holland, fireman;
Charles Leiper, Lsiper, Pa; an AN
known man, of Leiper, Pa.
The Injured are: w. L. Hawthorne.
conductor; Englneer Gordon, will die;
Fireman Hines, will die; Postal Clerk
J4mes keenan,, will die; Alexander
Hartman, Hersher, III; P Fl. Moan
eny. Victor. Colorado; Prank P Man.
nix, Victor, Colorado; Mr.. Yeager,
Victor; Miss Pearl Cornell, Oregon
John H. STANDARD, Blackfoot, Idaho
j. I'll. Sheets, Iowa; r. y. Sheets,
Leiper, Pa; r. Ell. Beckley, postal
clerk, will die.
The train dispatcher claims to have
given orders correctly, but the freight
conductor is presumed to have looked I
at ths wrong column. Instead OF stop
ping at Sill, five miles west OF this |
place, he came on fast to the scene Of
the collision, which is rather sharp
turn of road, and where two previous
wrecks have occurred.
The freight train consisted Of seven
teen cars, the first three being loaded
with horses, the next car being laden
with fruit, and the rest being filled
with cattle.
The freight engine had no mercy,
but It tore through the passenger en-
gine up to the bell. On the train were
about 200 people, who were about
evenly divided between the coaches.
In the smoker, next to the express car,
Thefpgtthirty persons.
explosion, followed by cSfhfadan!
groans and ordinations. The scenes
of sorrow, excitement and desolation
beggar description. The number OF
those who perlshed is conservatively
estimated at thirty Fireman Holland
and Postal Clerk Keener have just died.
The work of Identifying the dead is
proceeding slowly and with much
trouble 1t will be afternoon before a
complete list of the unfortunales can
be given
A FOREIGN ACCIDENT.
BERLIN, September 10 "A railway
collision occurred at Urbach, to-day,
by which ten persons were killed and
roapv ininrod