The San Francisco call., 1899-12-30
TRAIN COLLISION
ON UNION PACIFIC
One Killed and Four
teen Injured.
FLIER CRASHES INTO FREIGHT
CARELESSNESS THE CAUSE OF
THE ACCIDENT.
Brakeman Fred Laws, Pinned Down
by a Carwheel, Cuts Off His
Own Leg With Pocket
knife.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

DENVER, Dec. 29.-The Cheyenne fier
on the Union Pacific Railroad crashed into
the Boulder Valley train at Brighton,
Colo.,' at o'clock this morning. One man
was killed and fourteen passengers in
jured. The killed:
WINFIELD RANDLEMAN, express
messenger, Denver; body burned TO crisp
The injured; II. S. Hooker. Olin, Iowa
head badly cut; Mrs. Margaret Young
Mansfield Mo-, forehead cut; S. G.. Hurst.
banker. Brighton, badly cut and bruised;
+. V. Davis, travelling salesman, Denver
head badly cut, back injured, ribs broken;
w. g. Tompkins, travelling salesman for
Bradley, Anderson & Co., Kansas City
| head badly cut, back injured; c. H.
Payne, Laramie, Wyo., head badly cut,
right hand mashed; Mrs. McCanna, Lara
mle, bruised.
Trainmen and section men injured:
Fred Laws, brakeman, Denver, right leg
cut on Michael ReSan, section foreman,
head badly cut: Thomas McGovern, sec
ton foreman. leg bruised. head cut; John
Kennedy, badly cut and bruised; John
Darlington, head cut; Frank Sloan, cut
and bruised; Jerry Flanney, back hurt.
The Boulder Valley train left Denver
little late this morning, and, as usual
stopped at Brighton, which is the junction
for the Boulder Valley line from the main
line TO Cheyenne. 1t was here that Banker
hurst OF Brighton got on the train just
before the collision. The Cheyenne fer,
D,
yer late, and coming into Brighton in the
early morning dusk ran into the rear end
or the Boulder train. teleScoping two or
three cars and derailing the passenger
locomotive. The section gangs from the
Denver yards and a half dozen passengers
occupied the Boulder train. The mail and
baggage car and the smoker OF the fier
were burned.
Mrs. Young was in the chair car with
six children. None of the children were
hurt.
Superintendent Deuel. went out on a spe-
cial train from Denver with Drs. Lemon
and Taylor. They took along stretchers
and other supplies. They found all the
injured at the Brighton Hotel, being cared
for by the citizens. The Brighton hose
ing baggage car. and had discovered the
body of the dead baggageman.
Superintendent Deuel. says he cannot un-
derstand why the Boulder train was not
on the side track, as IL had twenty min
utes 10 clear the Cheyenne flyer The
freight cars and a heavy caboose Engine
No. SIS, the big locomotive hauling the
flyer, lies out on the prairie, a total wreck
an evidence Of how hard the crash was.
The injured were brought to Denver
about noon and taken TO hospitals.
Conductor McAllister of the Boulder
Valley train was craZed by the accident.
He attempted 10 jump into the burning
wreckage, and had to be forcibly re-
strained.
Fred Laws, n brakeman on the Boulder
Valley train. He was making n coupling
near the head of the train when the col
lision occurred. He was thrown down
and a wheel ran upon his leg, pinioning
him down. His cries for help were not
heard. and he drew a knife from his
pocket, cut off his leg and crawled from
under the car. His recovery is doubtful.