The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-24
SIX KILLED OUTRIGHT
An Appalling Accident on the
Denver & Rio Grande.
WITH TERRIFIC FORCE
The Two Trains Crashed Together-Ths
Freight Disobeyed Orders to Side
track-Excursionists Were
on Passenger Train.

Denver, Colo, Sept. ga special to
the News from Florence, Colo. says:
One of the most appalling accidents IN
the history of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad occurred at 4 o'clock this aft
ernoon four and one-half miles west of
this city, Six persons were killed out
right and five badly injured. The killed
are:
F. sALTAR, manager of the excur-
sion.
EVA NJ. WALKER, aged IL, of West
ford, Mass.
EUGENIA b. JUDKINs. aged 12.
Spokane, Wash.
ADDIE F. JUDKINS. aged TO- spo-
kane, Wash.
GEORGE H. JUDKINs, Spokane.
aged 6.
- WILLS, boy, aged 6, Los Angeles,
Cal
The injured:
Mrs. F. A. Wills, Los Angeles, badly
| hurt.
Harry Walker, aged 10, westford,
Mass, internal injuries, ne seriously.
Mrs Grand Bddle, Colecamp, Mo-,
| internal injuries.
Miss Ella Biddle, aged 21. Colecamps
| Mo, bruises.
C. r. Cook, aged 25. MilIers, Ind,
| bruises.
The killed and injured were passen-
| gers on a Phillips-Judson excursion
train, westbound, which collided with
an eastbound freight train The excur-
| sion train consisted of one day coach
| and two Pullman tourist sleepers. There
We're about 40 passengers, most of them
| from Massachusetts en- route to the Pa
| cif1c coast. The special had orders to
run to Rano siding, and when only ~
few hundred yards from the siding it
| collided with the freight train. Tho
trains came together with terrific force.
| The second Pullman telescoped the first
one and the day coach is a completes
wreck.
The freight train consisted of SO mar
row gauge cars, loaded with ore and
| lumber, and wreckage is strewn along
| the tracks for nearly half a mile.
| All the trainmen saved themselves
| by jumping. 1t is understood the
| freight had orders to take the side
! track at Reno, but for some reason it
! failed to do so.
| A special, with physicians, was sent
from this city to the scene of the wreck
| and the, surviving passengers were
| brought to this city. Later the injured
were taken to Pueblo. Mrs. Wills is
| lowering between life and death. The
| others will recover.
E. s. Plaisted, one of the excursion
| party from Revere, Mass, said: Our
| party of 35 or 40 persons left Boston on
| Wednesday morning last on pleasure
and business tour to the Pacific coast.
| | 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. 1t seemed to ma
as if ponderous stone bridge had fallen
upon our car. l quickly doubled my
| self up and waited for the worst. I
| found I was not seriously hurt and with
| a little effort was soon eXtricated from
| under the debris. l looked for the con-
| ductor who sat by my side, and there he
| lay, a corpse. Two other men in the
| same car (there were four In the day
COACH escaped also. This car was a
! complete wreck, as was the tourist
| sleeper next TO it. There were six per-
sons killed. five young people and our
| Pullman conductor, who came with ufa
| from Boston"
| George j. Judkins, who was travelling
| to his home at Spokane. had the misfor-
| tune to see all three of his children
| killed, while he escaped with few
| bruises and scratches. The poor man
| is almost distracted with grief.
| A special to the News from Canon
| CITY says that George ]. Judkins was
retllrnng to Tacoma, Wash, with his
| three children, who were killed IN the
wreck to-day, after having buried his
| wife in the East. 1t is not known
| here whether the Judkins family lived
| in Spokane or Tacoma.