Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-08-09

accompanied MIN organized searching
parties to follow the course Of the riv
| er.
Buried Under Debris.
Most of the dead were in the cars
buried under the debris. The bodies
of three young women were washed
upon the bank of the river three.
quarters of mile below the scene OF
the wreck. j. M. Killeen, Pueblo
hardware merchant, was swept down
the stream, but crawled out from the
wreckage a mile below the scene OF
the accident, he was SO badly injured
and so exhausted from his struggle in
the water that he was unable to
ooherently.
Carried Heavy Passenger List.
Denver, Colo, August 8.-Passenger
train No. II, the Denver and Rio
Grande and Missouri Pacific Worlds
Fair Flyer, is the fastest train sent
out of Denver, by the Denver and Rio
Grande and usually carried a heavy
passenger list Yesterday the train
was made up Of six cars-eXpress,
smoker diner, chair car and two sleep
ers. Nearly every coach was
filed when the train pulled out OF
Denver at 8 o'clock. The train makes
the run to Colorado Springs in two
hours and five minutes and an hour
and ten minutes is the schedule time
frmo Colorado Springs to Pueblo, and
the heavy train was whirling along
through the storm to make this fast
time when it dropped into the stream.
The train was in charge of Conduc,
tor J. H. Smith, Of this city, one OF
the most trusted men In the employ
of the company and he is believed
to have been lost as were Engineer
Hinman and Globe, Express Messen.
ger Reeves.
The higher officials of the road are
absent from the state, General Man
ager and Vice President Setback being
in New York, General Superintendent
Coughlin, on his vacation, and Man.
ager Edison on trip of inspection in
Utah, but the officials in charge gave
prompt directions to furnish immedi-
ate relief to the injured and spared
no pains to recover the bodies of the
dead.
Accident a Bad One
The disaster was the worst that has
~ raj
Grande railroad. Dry creek, where
the accident happened, Is one of the
most dangerous points on the road. 1t
is not far from Butte, where two years
ago washouts occurred which crippled
the service Of the line, but entailed
no loss of life. It is close to the foot
hills, which, by reason of repeated
cloudbursts, have been slowly closing
in, the bed of the creek continually
becoming deeper until it has reached
a depth Of about 20 feet.
Trains Nos. 8 and Is preceding No.
II passed over the bridge and reach.
ed Pueblo safely The rains had
been severe but officials did not appre.
hend any danger at Dry Creek as a
recent inspection showed that the
bridge was in f1rst-class condition. No
reports of trouble on the line were re-
ceived until the message was received
at Pueblo at 9 o'clock that train No
II had been wrecked.
Train at High Speed.
Just prior to that time there were
reports that a heavy rainfall was In
progress in the vicinity of Eden, but
there was no intimation of a cloud
burst. So far as the officials of the
road can determine, the engineer evt
IDENTIFY did not see the trouble until
it was too late to stop the train which
was going at high rate OF speed.
Whether the engine and the torrent
of water from the cloudburst struck
the bridge simultaneously, or the tor
rent had already undermined the struc
ture, is not known, but the reports al
the Denver office say that the air was
turned on and that this saved the din.
er and sleepers from being preoipitat.
ed into the creek. If the water was
at high mark, the depth ranged from
20 to rs feet and the current was ire.
sistible.
When the baggage car, smoker and
chair car left the tracks and plunged
into the stream they were swept down
by the current. The volume of water
can be understood when 1t was report
ed by Superintendent Bowerin that
they were carried 4 miles before they
came ashore.
The three cars were found near each
other
Firm Receives Heavy Order.
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