The age-herald., 1899-09-24
ORDERS WERE DISREGAROEO
All the Men in the Cabs Escaped h.
 jury by Jumping.
TWO SLEEPING CARS TELESCOPED
Speed of Twenty-Five Miles an Hour When Collision
 Occurred

Denver, Col, September 23.-Six passen- gers were killed and five injured, one per haps fatally in a collision on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad at Reno siding, near Florence, at 1 o'clock this morning. The trains in collision were the Phillips eastbound fast freight. The killed are
 List Of the Dead
 F. SALTER, manager of the excursion. EVA M. WALKER, aged 12, of West ford, Mass.
 EUGENIA JUDKINs, aged 10, Spokane, Wash.
 ADDIE JUDKINs, aged 10, Spokane. Wash.
 GEORGE H. JUDKINs, aged 6, Spokane. Wash.
 - WILLS, aged 6, Los Angeles, Cal.
 List of the Injured Are The injured are: Mrs. F. A. Wills, Los Angeles; badly hurt. Harry Waler, West ford, Mass; internal injuries, not serious. Mrs Grant Riddle, Coal Camp, Mo; in ternal injuries. Mrs. Ella Riddle. Coal Camp, Mo-; bruised. c. R. Cook, Millers, Ind; bruises.
 The excursion train was running at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour when the collision occurred.
 Orders Were Disregarded
 At the headquarters of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad in this city it is said that the fast freight had orders to take the side track at Reno to let the passen- oi,, h,itf for is not yet understood, the fast freight had passed Reno. All the trainmen on the To- comotives of the trains jumped off and es- capped injury. The engineers turned off steam and put on brakes, but the trains collided with such force that engines and cars were badly wrecked.
 The excursion train consisted of one empty coach back of the engine and three Pullman tourist seepers, two of which were telescoped.
 special Sent to Scene
 There were about forty passengers, most of them from Massachusetts, en route to the Pacific coast. A special with physi- cians were sent from Florence to the scene of the wreck, and the surviving passengers were taken back to that place. Later the injured were taken to Pueblo. Mrs. Wills is lowering between life and death. The others will recover.
 F. s. Plaisted, one of the excursion party, said: "Our party of thirty-five or forty | persons left Boston Wednesday morning last on a pleasure and business trip to the Pacific coast. l had been riding in the first sleeper, but had just entered the day coach with the Pullman conductor, and had got comfortably seated when there came an awful crash. It seemed to me as if ponderous stone bridge had fallen on our car.
 Awaited the Worst q quickly doubled myself up and waited for the worst I found that l was not serl- ously hurt and with little effort was soon extrlcated from the debris. l looked for the conductor, who sat by my side and there he lay, a corpse Two other men in the same car escaped also. This car was a complete wreck as was the tourist sleeper next to 1t. There were six persons killed, five young people and our Pullman con ductor, who came with us from Boston. George J. Judkins, who was travelling to his home in Spokane, had the misfortune to see all three of his children killed. while he escaped with few bruises and scratches. The poor man is almost dis tracted with grief"