Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-09
Hunting for Bodies of Colo
RADIO Wreck Victims.
40 HOMES IN MOURNING
PAIL OF SORROW HANGS OVER
CITY OF PUEBLO.
Death Loss in That Place Alone
Reaches 65-Chair Car Settled
in Quicksand.

fttBLO, COL, August 9.-BecauSe Ol
the railroad horror. which cost 100 or more
lives, many business houses are closed to-
day and more than forty homes in
mourning. Several persons have lost their
minds, following the shock of the deaths .or
loved ones.
All night the search for bodies were KEEP,
up, but in the darkness the work was nee
essarly slow. Fountain river, into which
nearly all the dead bodies were washed, has
today fallen nearly to It's normal state and
the work of rescue will be made easier, al
though it is still dangerous owing to the
quicksand, which so greatly delayed work
yesterday. AS soon as daylight came many
men today took up the work again and the
number was increased as the day wore on.
Bodies have been recovered more than ten
miles from the scene of the disaster.
TIE death list, as compiled from the best
obtainable sources of information, today
shows total of siXty-SiX identifled dead
total of twenty-eight missing and six un-
identified bodies. making an even hundred
victims of the wreck.
Many of the victims have been removed
from the morgueS to the former places OF
abode and preparations for burial nave pc
gun Hundreds of people are still passing
through the morgues today, some prompted
by morbid curiosity alone, Others seeking
to identify bodies.
The death loss of Pueblo alone reaches
sixty-five lives with forty identifications al
ready made.
Chair Car May Contain Victims.
At the scene of the wreck today every
thing was practically the same as yester-
day. The chair car, turned completely
over. has settled in the quicksand until
only the wheels are now visible and mas
resisted all efforts to right it or gain an
e.
been a trap in which may be found sew
eral bodies. ~
Mayor Brown issued a proclamation call
ing a public meeting tonight TO start an
organized movement toward patrollng the
Fountain and Arkansas rivers IN the nope
of finding more bodies of the victims OF
the wreck. Hundreds of men responded
promptly, and the work was taken up
under the direction of able oMclalS' as
sisted by willing workers.
The railroad situation has materially i1n-
proved, traffic being resumed TINS morning
over the Rio Grande tracks. The oHlclals
here had no information to communicate,
and not caring to estimate financial mat
ters, saying they had taken no notice ol
pecuniary affairs in time like this. Many
of the officials returned to the scene or the
wreck early this morning with wrecking
crews and today will probably wipe out
all trace of the horrible catastrophe.
The Identified Dead.
The following names have been added 70
the identified dead, the list including the
names of several persons hitherto reported
missing:
Frank Bodman, Pueblo; Turner Rrach-
man. Denver; Miss Mineola Davis, Pueblo;
v B. Durman, Pueblo; A. S. Dannis, Den
yer; Malcolm S. Diggen, Pueblo; Miss
Elizabeth Eklund, Denver; Walter Cart
land, ten years. Denver: Ralph Garland,
two years old Denver; Eva Garland. two
months, Denver; T. j. Groves, Florence,
Col. Effie Gray. Pueblo; Edward Hughes,
Pueblo; Miss Hadenburg, Pueblo George
Jones, Pueblo; F. Knight, Pueblo;
- Keating girl. six years old, Pueblo;
Ed Knight, Pueblo; Mrs. w II. Lamoon,
Pueblo; W. II. Lamoon, Pueblo; DR.. w. II.
Mock Pueblo: Mrs. John S. Molitor and
two children Mary and Genevieve, two and
four years old. Pueblo; Fred Mahoney
Pueblo; ]. F. Merech, Pueblo; Mabel Reese
Pueblo: Olive Sturgeon, Pueblo; Mrs. Stew
art Pueblo; Thomas Sullivan, Pueblo;
Henry Selby. Pueblo; Robert Seward
Pueblo; Gertrude Vogel, Council Grove
Kansas; Mrs. Mary Welch, Chicago.
The following have been added to the hist
of missing
Mrs. Meyers, Miss Jennie Huddlestone,
coored Mrs James keahley. Frank Will
son and Mrs. Stearns, all of Pueblo.
Hearty Response for Volunteers.
This forenoon a train bearing two more
dead bodies reached the city.
The response to the mayors proclama
tion asking for volunteers in the work of
searching for bodies was hearty, and more
than two hundred men have left the city
to join the searchers, and many names are
constantly being added to the list.
A relief fund was started early today
and several hundred dollars has been sub
scribed for the aid of needy families and to
aid in the recovery of wreck victims.
DIR. r.. c. Stimmel, dentist of Pueblo.
who was reported as lost yesterday, es-
capped by leaving the train at Colorado
Springs, and returned here this morning.
Death of Capt. Whitman.
Gen. Baldwin, commanding the depart
ment of the Colorado, at Denver has noti-
fled the War Department that Capt. Frank
II. Whitman, I'd Infantry. was killed in the
railroad disaster near Eden, COL Monday
morning. Capt Whitman, who was sta
toned at Fort Logan Col, was on his way
to this city for duty during the military
maneuvers at Manassas. He was a native
of Kansas. and was graduated from the
Military Academy in June, 1896. He was
assigned to the infantry arm and reached
the grade of captain in June, 1901. During
the Spanish war he served US major of the
Goth Kansas Volunteer Infantry.
Wreck Victim From Hartford
HARTFORD, Conn, August 9.--Miss Car
rie .. Bishop, daughter of Mrs. S. S. Bish-
op of this city. was among those who lost
their lives in the wreck of the passenger
Bishop was visiting her cousins, John F.
Bishop and Miss Eta A. Bishop of Pueblo
who also were lost in the wreck. 1t is sup
posed that the party were on their way to
visit other relatives.