Arizona republican., 1904-10-16
AN ENGINEERS ERROR
In Consequence, Total Wreck on
 the D. 9 R. C.

Pueblo, Colo, Oct. 15.-Nearly a score of persons were injured in a head-end collision between Rio Grande express train No. s, eastbound, and ex- tra frieght train No. 8, west bound. one-half mile east of Adobe siding and four miles east of Florence at 6:15 o'clock this morning. The two trains came together on a sharp curve and neither engineer saw the on-coming train till they were only thirty feet apart. The express train was travel ing at the rate of thirty miles an hour and No. 63 was going at the rate of eighteen miles an hour. The impact was so great that nearly all the pas sengers were hurled from their seats and Mrs. F. P. Cunningham. wife of the D. & R. G. agent at Eden, Colo, was thrown through a window. The front end of the boiler of the freight engine was embedded in the front end of the express train fully sixteen inch es. The accident was due to the fail ure of the freight train. which was late, to take the siding at Portland and aI- low the passenger train. which was running on scheduled time and had the right of way pass. Conductor Elmer Dewey had been given orders to side track at Beaver Station. When asked for statement, Dewey merely said it was a misunderstanding of the time on his part.
 When the two trains came together six cars of merchandise were thrown fully twenty feet from the track and are almost a total loss. The baggage. express and smoking cars of the ex- press train were reduced to kindling wood. The express ear was thrown ov- CT the tender of the engine and nearly half of the baggage car stood on top of the broken tender. The scenes for the first few minutes after the wreck oc- cured are indescribable. The noise of escaping steam from the battered en- zines, mingled with the cries and groans of the injured and the shouts of those who had escaped was awful Tel egrams were hastily sent to the rail- road headquarters at Pueblo and Sa- Ida and relief rain with every avail able physician and nurse was sent to to the scene of the wreck
 The first reports O. the wreck that reached Florence stated that a score of people had been killed outright and that twice as many more were wound ed and dying. The utmost excitement prevailed in the town and within an hour thousands of people were going to the wreck in wagons. on horseback and on foot. Transportation convey ances were at a premium and long be- fore 9 o'clock not another rig could be procured at any price. Despite the aw- fuI force of the collision neither of the engines of the wrecked trains left the track, but they now resemble two big heaps of iron.
 Those seriously injured are: Engin- eer Fred BOosinger, Pueblo, of the freight train, jaw fractured, arm brok- en and internal injuries; Conductor \. c. Moulton, Denver. train No. 6, bad gash on head; Carl Pitcock, fireman of train No. 6, broken arm, leg bruised badly and probably internally injured; Engineer August Gleyre, Pueblo, train No. 6, fractuI ed ankle and broken arm; Mrs. F. P. Cunningham, back severely injured, also sustained number of bruises; Myrtle Cunningham, daugh- ter, arm and leg bruised, but not se- riously.