Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-08-13
LIST OF DEAD AND MISSING
IN SUNDAYS RAILROAD WRECK

morning says: Al the hour OF going to
press seventy-four bodies had been re-
covered and identified and the closest
estimate put the total death list at lo6
from the wreck on Sunday night OF the
Denver 4 Rio Grande railIead, near
Eden station, seven miles north al Pu-
eblo, making of il the greatest railnoad
disaster that Colorado has suffered and
one of the most disastrous in the his
tory OF the country.
II will take days to determine the act
ual number Of persons who peftshed.
The Wall OF water that hurled itself
upon the foremost part of the train as
the latter WINS passing over = trestle
that spanned the Arroya, carried the
engine. baggage car, smoking car and
chair car down 10 the creek as II they
were pieces Of float. and as the two
cars. Crowded with passengers. began
to break the bodies were caught
IN the food and carried 10 the Foun-.
tain river, which. in turn empties. into
the Arkansas river, and search is being
prosecuted in both rivers for the dead
The train was cut in two. The two
Pullman cars and dining car remained
on the track. the coupling having Civ
en- way as the smoking car plunged into
! the abyss. leaving the end OF the near
est Pullman hanging four feet over the
abyss.
of the hundred or more people in the
tgo cars that plunged into the torrent,
bGt three escaped and their escape. as
was that Of the fireman on the engine,
was miraculous TO a degree. All the
others in the cars were drowned. The
| three who escaped did so through the
roof Of the smoking car being battered
( in a tho h1pA wall. nf that fell
from the skies a few miles nearer the
foot hills tossed the cars hither and
thither in what was few minutes be-
fore a dry, sandy creek.
The monster engine was dragged by
the water a considerable distance and
one Of the cars containing the passen-
gers was found almost mile from the
wreck. such was the tremendous force
of the waterspout that went crushing
| down what is known as Dry creek.
| The passengers had no warning The
pilot of the engine had almost reached
the end OF the light trestle that spans
the hundred feet of arroyo. when the
full force OF the wave struck ii and car
ried with 1t every part Of the train that
was then on the trestle into the secth-
ing tide. tossed the engine and cars and
rolled them over and over in its fury.
1 DtdlI ~ luOSt III tlf pdsctBktit
have been sudden and In all probabili-
~ painless. They were drowned. The
, bodies of those recovered show few
bruises. But as the cars broke the dead
bodies were carried on and often buried
in the sand.
As the train was from Denver bound
for the Worlds Fair at St. Louis. q
number of Denver people were lost.
but the heaviest burden OF the disaster
will fall on Pueblo.
The following lists indicate the num-
Der Of identified dead and the missing,
/ These lists have been compiled as &C.
curately as possible. and have been
checked up by the Denver 4 Rio
Grande ofiicials and those in charge of
the undertaking establishments at Pu-
eblo. II is probable that some few err
rors may be found. owing to the diff
/ Guilty Of securing a correct spelling OF
names in some instances. which may
have led to Implications in one or two
| instances
As the lists now stand they show a
total Of loo dead. of whom seventy-four
have been found and Identified and thir-
ty-two are missing.
Known to be Dead.
John F. Bishop. architect. Pueblo,
Eta Z. Bishop. sister Of John F.
Bishop. Pueblo.
George A. Beck, 72f East Fourth
street, Pueblo.
Bethel. Cripple Creek.
Miss Bennell. nurse, Pueblo.
Miss Gertrude Boyle, Pueblo.
Turner BRAKEMAN. supposed to be
from Denver.
Edward Curtis, brick mason. Pueblo.
Roy Campbell. son OF Roger Camp
! bell. 3l6 Broadway, Pueblo.
Miss Carrie Downing. Pueblo.
A. S. Dennis. Denver.
J. Enrich, Pueblo.
George Ellington. Colorado Springs
j. II. Furrier, Pueblo.
II. X. Graves. plumber. Pueblo.
Mrs. Edward p. Garland. 2450 West
Thirty-eighth avenue. Denver.
Edward Garland, Denver.
Walter Garland. Denver.
Lillian Garland, Denver.
J. @. Galbraith. Pueblo.
J. G.. Graham, Florence.
George w. Geppert. St Louis.
Mrs. Henry s. Gilbert, Pueblo.
A. e. Hoes. Pueblo.
Harry W. Hough. head brakeman,
Denver
William Hughes. Pdeblo.
Edward Hughes. Pueblo.
A. J. Hess. clerk. Denver & Rio
Grande.
Miss Pearl Hopper, Pueblo.
Henry s. Hfnman. engineer. Denver.
Miss Hadenburg. Salina. Kansas.
Dorothy johnson. daughter of Harry
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No Western offies.
New York, Aug. 9-The national
Democratic executive committee was
in session hye hours yesterday and
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