Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-09
Sixty.Six Dead Identified, Twenty
Eight Missing, and Six
Unidentified.
PUEBLO PLUNGED IN GLOOM.
All Night Search Was Kept Up
Some Bodies Found Ten Miles
From Scene Of Wreck,

Pueblo, Clio, Aug "a cast of deep
gloom has settled down upon this city
today. the day following the railroad
horror, which snuffed out 100 or more
lives yesterday, Many business houses
are closed out OF respect for the dead
and more than 20 private homes are
darkened and In mourning. The wreck
victims of yesteday will probably not be
the only ones or the ones to be pltied
most as already cases of total loss of
mind as q result Of the shock when
told OF loss OF loved ones are reported.
ENDLESS FUNERAL PROCESSION.
All the citizens have Joined In one
immense funeral procession Winding
increasingly from one morgue to the
other. Death I'm one of its most hoi-
rible forms has become so common that
delicate 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 personal loss knowing some
one of the victims as a friend. The eye
OF mourning full and sad Is universal.
The calamity IL the heaviest that has
ever fallen on the city. The first emo
ton that seized the city yesterday
morning as the news appeared was one
of ncreduity. il has settled down to
be a horrible certainty.
Entire families have been wiped out,
an instance being that of j. Q. Thomas,
commercial agent for the santa Fe
railroad who, together with his wife,
and daughter Leona, lost their lives In
the raging waters.
NIGHT LONG SEARCH,
All night long the search was kept
VI and an occasional body was located,
but In the darkness work was neces-
sarily slow. The most treacherous of
streams, the Fountain river, into which
nearly all the dead bodies were washed,
this morning had fallen to near It's
normal condition and the work of res
cue will be made easier although stu
dangerous from quiCksand, when prov
ed such a factor Ia delaying work yes
terday, This did not deter the search
ers today, and as soon as daylight came
on many men again took up the work
and the number was increased MS the
day wore on. Bodies have hcen TO-
covered more than 10 miles from the
scene Of the disaster and rumors tlidt
bodies had been found even further
distant are heard.
A HUNDRED LIVES LOST,
The death list, as compiled from the
best obtainable sources OF Information
at an early hour this morning shows a
total of &c Identified dead total known
missing 2S and unidentified bodies six.
making an even 100 lives lost This list
will more than likely be Increased dur
ing the day.
Many OF the bodies had been removed
from the morgues TO their former
places Of abode and preparations for
burial begun. Hundreds OF people were
still passing through the morgues this
morning some with morbid curiosity,
others seeking to identify the remaining
bodies.
The death loss OF Pueblo alone reach
es the top figure In it's history being
now given as 65 lives, with 80 identih-
cations already made.
At SCENE OF THE WRECK.
At the scene Of the wreck early to.
day everything was practically the
same as yesterday The chair car
turned completely over has settled in
the quicksand until only the wheels are
now visible, and has resisted all efforts
to right it or gain an entrance TO what
~ llluuknl " llaff hNtll "a lihp III NHlNn
may be found several bodies.
Mayor Brown issued a proclamation
calling n public meeting at . O'Clock
this morning for the purpose of launch
ing an organized movement TO patrol
the Fountain and Arkansas rivers in
the hope Of finding more bodies OF vie
tins OF the wreck Hundreds Of men
responded promptly and the work was
taken up under the direction OF able Of
ficers, assisted by more than willing
workers.
RAILROAD SITUATION
The railroad situation has materially
improved, traffic being resumed this
morning over the Rio Grande tracks.
The officials here had no Information
TO communicate, and did not care to
give an estimate OF the financial loss,
saying they had taken no notice OF pc
cunlary affairs IN a time like this. or
| fcials returning TO the wreck scene
early this morning with wrecking crews
and today viii probably wipe out all
| trace OF the horrible catastrophe.
At lO;30 train bearing two more
dead bodies reached the city. The re-