The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-08-09
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Work Of Relief.
Relief trains with physicians, wreck !
j md rale driving outtitf and scores e. Q.
1 workmen were hurried from the city
The first train from the wreck came I!1,,, N
1 shortly after midnight with j. M. Ktllin,
( az pueblo: II. S. Gilbert, Tony Fisher
4 ana Fireman sMaytield. These we're four
4 men III the midst Aof the wreck who os-
q caped. When dawn came the Wonder
i 1,ew that four had been permitted 70
emerge from the raging torrent with
breath still ir8thcir bodies.
The end OF the; Pullman car Wyl'ta en- X
tended four feet over the brink, whlie
! broken tiinbers and twisted ralis, hun nss
4 st,li further over. The Arroyo had been
y yyIdenetl to more than a hundred feet q =
the point where the bridge had been. me y
water tore q zig-zag course across inc
nraitie to n depth OF thirtS feet In sew
eral plases There was little left of the
baggage car. n few rods, truck or So
tIiniy seen In the muddy water, ana q
half buried Iron, safe. ,rhe great locomo-
tive. the boiler free of the trucks, the
cab and tank gone. lies where y y; lell'
Vestiges Of Wreck.
A quarter of a mile to the east, where ere
this gorge of death debouched INTO the
Fountain, lay the chair car. WINDOWS
rome. three fourths filled with mNd and
sand, 4 hundred feet farther on wns
Tho smoker bottom UP against sand
Sbar a hundred and fifty feet farther
nm. IN the bed of the Fountain. was the
coal tender OF the engine. and from that
point for four or five miles. Yestlge OF
The coaches, the engine and tender stuck
IN from the bed Of the stream or lay
along the shore on the islands. Red push
seats of the smoker wero streWns al =.
i'nlong the stream Brass rails from the
coaches were found IN the sane g nan nan
mile from the bridge and pieces OF the
de car stuck out Of the water IN
several places. Bits of clothing, coats,
skirts and women's hats We're found in
che brush along the shore, and the search
ora scanned the foliage for tNdies. Masses
i:pf earth had caved in from the high sides
/ of the river at many places. and search
icrs passed these with fear that bodies
were buried under them which they We're
helpless to reaa! rs ~ II. y.
ia Five hundred men scanned every inch
8of the river and its surroundings a few
hours after daylight. They waded in the
stream and carried out nud-begrimed
bodies which were found at widely sepa-
rated points some of them miles from
the scene Of heaaccident N
81 q Corpses Recovered.
q Tho first OF the corpses of the recover
ed We're those Of Miss Irene Wright and
little Dorothy j Johnson, sister-in-law and
daughter respectively OF Harry Johnson,
of Poeblo. An gunknown woman lay be-,
Side item Engineer IIindman was found
with MS watch still running, a few feet
further down the stream.
Is All day long stretchers with sand Gov
cred dripping burdens were carried every
few minutes to the railroad tracks where
the death train awaited them. While = t
was still dark axes had been used on.
The half buried cars and the junction Of
the creek with the Fountain and q y day
light this work was resumed on the
smoking car, which lay ont in the Four-#
tain, where men We're compelled to wade
almost 10 their waists to reach it,
few moments search and clearing away
of tho floor of the car revealed the
wounded head OF a young man in his
shirt sleeves. a second party further /.
down The river found sey ernl persons en-
tangled in a mascot debris NJ
I IN B II short time a large number Of.
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
shlrbbcry along the banks, others IN
III he 5wrecka go in nidstream and man y.
halt buried with only an arm or bit
cf clothing to revca Where I! bouts
Il required eight strong mengto lift the
water soaked body of one woman to the
shore ana a skirt and a hat found on
The bank could scarcely be lifted with
the fingers OF one hand. Many of the
bodies were almost naked. Many OF
them were Slightly bruised, probably from
the first shock of the wreck, but there
was little blood visible when they we're
REMOVED from the stream. Without doubt
the great majority We're drowned like
rats in trap when the cars were
plunged without q moments warning
into the whirling water thirty-fiye feet
deep. 100 feet wide and with current
strong enough to carry thousands OF
pounds OF weight nearly u mile before
subsiding.
Many Visit Scene.
When brought ashore the bodies were
placed on tho ground and covered. A
X IN ssaEe car was kept running between
Ethe city and the wreck. bringing In those
; who We're fouAh a tnumberOf wagons
\ finally pressed into Service TO haul the
bodies to the tracks. leaving the scarab
= ers free to continue the hunt for others.
Il Some starchers worked all night and all
4 day without food or rest. Persons were
constantly arriving and anxiously tnanir-
ing for lost ones known to have been on
n The. train. BY . o'clock this morning the
y plains were dotted with vehicles, each
Il with its load of anxious seekers or the
amorbidly curious. More than thou
sand persons were on the scene two hours
before noon and the roads in every di-
srection were filled with streams of oth-
srs coming away.
Among the missing Is Miss Alice Wood,
&of Jacksonville, Fla.
PORTER A HERO.