The Irish standard., 1904-08-13

breath still in their bodies, The end
of the Pullman Ashmere extended four
feet over the brink, while broken TIM
bers and twisted rails hung still fur
ther over. The arroyo had been widen
ed to over 100 feet at the point where
the bridge had been. The water tore
a zigzag course across the prairie to a
depth of 80 feet in several places.
There was but little left of the baggage
cara few rods, a truck or so, dimly
seen in the muddy water, half buried
iron safe. The great locomotive, the
boiler free of the trucks, the cab and
tank gone, lies where it fell.
A Scene of Ruin.
A quarter OF mile to the east, where
this gorge OF death debouched into tho
Fountain, lay the chair car, windows
gone, three-fourths filled with mud and
sand. A hundred feet farther on was
the smoker, bottom up against sandbar.
A hundred and fifty feet farther on in
the bed Of the Fountain was the coal
tender of the engine and from that point
on for four OF five miles, vestiges of the
coaches, the engine and tender stuck up
from the bed OF the stream or lay along
the shore or on the islands.
Recovering the Bodies.
Five hundred men scanned every inch
of the river and its surroundings few
hours after daylight. They waded in the
stream and carried out mud begrimmed
bodies which were found at widely sepa-
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the scene of the accident The first of
the corpses recovered were those of Miss
Irene Wright and little Dorothy John.
son, the sister-in-law and daughter, re-
spectively, OF Harry Johnson, of Pueblo.
An unknown woman lay beside them.
Engineer Hindman was found with his
watch still running, few feet further
down the stream.
A second party farther down the river
found several persons entangled in a
mass of debris, thought to have been part
OF the baggage car, which was literally
torn to pieces. In a short time large
number CT bodies were dug out of the
sand here. One woman was completely
buried, save one foot, which stuck above
the water Some bodies were found
lodged in the shrubbery along the banks,
Pueblo in Mourning.
Pueblo, Col, Aug. 10.-A cast of deep
gloom has settled down upon this city
Tuesday. the day following the railroad
horror, which snuffed out 100 or mora
lives Monday. Many business houses are
closed out of respect for the dead, and
more than 40 private homes are dark
ened and in mourning. The victims will
probably not be the only ones or the
most to be pitied, as already cases of
total loss of mind as result of the shock
when told of the loss of loved ones ara
reported.
Over 100 Dead.
At nine p. m. Tuesday the total mum.
ber of identified bodies recovered was
70; unidentified dead, three. The list
OF those reported missing has been
growing and has now nearly reached
40. The death loss of Pueblo alone
reaches the top figure in it's history,
being now given as 65 lives. with 40
identifications already made.
All the citizens have Joined in one i'm
mense funeral procession winding un-
ceasingly from one morgue to the
other. Death in one Of it's most horrible
forms has become so common that DEL
icate women and innocent children, ever
guarded from the touch of tragedy, are
freely allowed to gaze upon it. Scarce a
person in the city who does not suffer a
personal loss, knowing some one of the
victims as a friend. The eye of mourn
ing, full and sad, is universal. The ca
lamity is the heaviest that has ever
fallen on the city.