, 1899-12-30

the shock. He grabbed a red light and
ran back to flag any train that might
be coming, and was the first one to in
form sGpertendent Deuel. Of the partic-
ulars Of the wreck.
Superintendent Deuel., with Division
Surgeon L. E. Lemen and DR.. Hugh
Taylor and Claim Agent Hussey and
a representative Of the Times, were fly
ing to the scene Of the wreck on a spe-
cial.
The Denver Times contains the fol-
lowing account Of the accident:
The collision was occasioned by the
driving of train No. 8, the Cheyenne
flyer, into the Boulder local, which was
standing on the main track near the
station, a short distance below it.
So far as can be a~scertained from the
officials it seems hat the Boulder Val
ley train, a mixed freight and passen-
ger, No. Is, left the union depot about
on time and was fifty minutes ahead
Of train No. 8, which was about an
hour late in leaving. The Boulder train
had plenty of time to clear the track
and as the conductor, E. W. McAllis-
ter, was found / n a daft condition no
information could be gotten III of him.
The Boulder train had one coach and
stopped at the Fortieth street yards
train had been at the station for some
time the passengers relate, and they
had no warning that the flyer was up
on them until the crash came into the
real of the coach. 1t made an awful
wreck, and it is a wonder that all
were not killed, instead of being
wounded, for the coach and three or
four freight cars we're reduced to the
condition Of kindling wood.
The locomotive of the flyer was go
ing at a speed of about forty or fifty
miles an hour, and it split the Boulder
coach in two, throwing the roof and a
portion Of the car to a distance OF thir-
ty feet to the right, splintering every
particle of the wood and crushing it
into fragments. The locomotive plow-
ed through several box cars and then
took a shoot to the right, coasting for
twenty feet through the sand minis
its smoke stack and forward truck and
several other sections of its construct
ion. The locomotive is No. S15, one of
the heavy passenger engines.
Fortunately, none Of the passenger
coaches were injured. but the express
and mail cars were telescoped so badly
that the locomotive tore them loose
from the chair car and the balance OF
the train, and then the momentum Of
the engine broke 1t loose from the ex-
press cars and off he track it went.
The express cars began to burn at
once and it was a %sickenins sight to
the early citizens Of Brighton gathered
about the place. 1t was found at once
that neither engineer, fireman nor the
train messenger were injured; they
were all there but Winfield Randleman,
the Pacific express messenger. They
knew that he was a mangled mass OF
neSn anu DOleS III the ruin, anu IL was
burning.
The Brighton fire department got on
the ground and as soon as the water
was on it was directed to the burning
cars and when the flames were sub
dued a charred mass was carefully dug
out, all that remained of the messen-
ger, burned to a black, crisp condition.
The accident happened right in front
OF the Hotel Brighton, and everybody
heard the crash. Some Of the patrons
of the hotel were in the Inflated
coach, among them being F. V. Davis,
w. G. Tompkins and c. H. Payne. The
hotel people ran out to the wreck and
found the passengers from the flyer
pulling out the victims of the wreck
ed Boulder coach, and that, too had
started to burn.