Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-10
Recovered from Terrible
Colorado Train Wreck.
Some Found Carried Fully Ten
Miles by Rushing Waters.
Total Will Go Over One Hundred
Relief Fund Started-Hundreds OF
Searchers Out-Several Lucky Es-
eapes-coroner's Jury Now at Work.

Pueblo, Colo. Aug. 9.-Organized
searching parties secured the FOUNTAIN
river banks for miles. today. in the
hope Of finding the remaining bodies of
| the victims of Sunday nights wreck
| at Eden. Seven more bodies were re-
| covered and a number Identified.
Those identified We're: DR.. w. +.
Mum. Pueblo; Thomas OBannon'
Pueblo; ]. @. Thomas and wife, Pueb-
10; A. NJ. Schmidt, Denver; l.. a. Ste
vens, --; Mrs. Downing and daugh-
| ter, Carrie, Colorado Springs; Miss
Alice Shoup, Fort Wayne, Ind; Mrs.
Salisbury, Sterling, Col; Miss jean
nette Sherman. Carthage, Mo-; Miss
Carrie Bishop, Pueblo.
A corOner's jury was called, which
viewed the scene of the wreck, today.
and examined number of witnesses,
this afternoon. The examination into
the cause of the disaster will be eX-
| haustive and it is thought that it will
require more han a week to hear all
| the witnesses hat have been sub
/ pOenaed. Fou1 railroad men We're ex
amined, this afternoon, before the jury
adjourned until tomorrow morning
Their testimony was mainly as to the
| amount of rain that fell during the
storm in the neighborhood of the
| wreck.
Many kilograms have been received,
inquiring whether Max Morris, whose
name appeared in the list of dead, was
| the vice president of the American
Federation of Labor The dead man IS
| another Morris. and not the we'll
/ known labor leader.
Winnie Zellby who was reported
dead is alive in Colorado Springs. She
is a stenographer in the Office of Con-
| gresham Hogg.
| The transportation for Mrs. Relle
| Stiffney from Denver to Kansas City,
| was found in the bed Of the Fountain
| river, today and her name has been
| added to the list of missing.
| The morgue and undertaking rooms
We're again besieged by anxious rela-
tives and friends. The work of identi-
fication is proceeding slowly as the
bodies being recovered are in a bad
condition.
| All night the search for bodies was
kept up. Fountain river has fallen near
ly to its normal stage and the work of
rescue has been made easier. Bodies
have been recovered more than 10 miles
| from the scene of the disaster.
| The death list as compiled from the
best Obtainable sources of information.
| today, shows a total of &c identified
dead. % missing and six unidentified
| bodies, making over 100 victims of the
wreck. The death loss of Pueblo alone
reaches e. lives with 40 identifications
already made.
| At the scene of the wreck, today ev-
erything was practically the same as
yesterday. The chair car. turned COM
pletely over, has settled in the quick
sand until only the wheels are now WISH
BILE and has resisted all efforts to right
it or gain an entrance into what is
| thought to have been a trap in which
may be found several bodies.
Mayor Brown called a public meeting.
today, to organize patrol Of the Foun-
tain and Arkansas rivers in search for
bodies of the victims. Hundreds Of men
responded and the work was promptly
taken up.
The railroad situation has materially
improved, traffic being resumed. this
morning, over the Rio Grande tracks.
relief fund was started. early today,
and several hundred dollars has been sub
scribed for the aid of the needy families
and to aid in the recovery of wreck vic
Tins.
DR.. f. c. Stimmel, a dentist of Pueblo.
who was reported as lost. yesterday, es-
capped by leaving the train at Colorado
Springs and returned here. this morning