Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-08

II. j. Crabbe Salt Lake City, Utah.
MIR, and Mrs. Dinazzi and daughter,
| TeXarkana, Tex.
Mrs. Drascie. Goodrichylle, Tenn.
Miss Edzerlals, Jonesyillo, Ga.
Edwin Anderson Pueblo.
O. $. GalbTaith, Durango.
Mrs. and Miss Bell, 22S south Grant
| avenue, Denver.
The Pullman crew Of six men and
| Fireman Mayneld.
| Miss Annie Pine, colorado Telephone
| company, Pueblo.
Mrs. James McFearley, child and
| Mrs. Mckee, mother Of Mrs McFeeley,
| Pueblo.
Margaret Donnelly 10 years old, pu-
! ehlo.
Mrs. Henry Donnelly, Pueblo
Miss Sturgeon, Pueblo
Miss Walker. Pueblo,
DR.. u. G. Stummel Pueblo
Jesse II. Gray, Pueblo.
$. $. Childs and wife. Colorado
| Springs.
A. $. Maxwell, Pueblo
CRASHED THROUGH BRIDGE
The train crashed through a bridge
| over Dry creek, an arroyo about 100 feet
| across near Eden on the Denver * Rio
| Grande railroad. A cloudburst had
| filled the creek and water was lowing
| over the trestles when the train started
across The bridge went down under
| the weight OF the train and the baggage
| car. smoker and chair car were pre-
| cipltated into the torrent. The engine
| got almost across but fell back into the
| water. The body OF Engineer Human
was found 200 feet down the river.
CARS MILES DOWN STREAM
The following Denver people are
| known TO have been aboard the train
| and as their names do not appear
| among those rescued they are supposed
| TO have persisted;
Mrs. John Mollter and four children.
Wife and four children OF Edward
Garland manager Of the gas house.
| Miss Krotter.
| All the cars We're washed down
| stream. The express safe was found
| open and It's contents gone. The cars
were found four miles from the scene
OF the accident, half filled with sand
| In which were buried the bodies OF
many passengers.
The cars were not located until sew
etal hours after the time of the acci-
| dent.
| When Division Supt Bowren reached
| lllf NNtIt vi TIC NIf'ht NhN hilNoiiib
had not been located and the passen-
gers and train hands who accompanied
him organized searching parties to fol-
| low the course of the river. The three
cars were found close to the shore in
the Fountain creek of which Dry creek
| is a tributary and which In turn flows
into the Arkansas river.
DEAD UNDER DEBRIS.
Most OF the dead were in the cars
buried under the debris The bodies
of three young women were washed up
on the bank of the river three-quarters
OF a mile below the scene of the wreck,
j. NJ. Killen, a Pueblo hardware mer-
chant. was swept down stream but
crawled outsfrom the wreckage a mile
below the scene of the accident. He
was so badly injured, and so exhausted
| from his struggles In the water that he
was unable to talk coherently.
HURRY CALL FOR SURGEONS.
When Supt. Bowren, Of the Pueblo
division, was notified from Plnon sta
tion by passengers who had escaped
and who had walked through the blind
| ing rain to the nearest telegraph sta
| tion. he Immediately sent a hurry call
for all surgeons and nurses In the city
to follow him on relief trains and taxi
Ing an engine and car ran quickly to
the scene OF the wreck, One train
followed another from the city in quick
succession, and every available ply
stefan responded to the call, accom-
panied by large supply Of medicines
and a number OF nurses In the mean
time measures were taken for the
equipment OF hospital train and that
left Pueblo later In the night In adj
dition to the surgeons and nurses a
carload of collins were sent out.
Passengers on the Pullmans were I'm
the meantime attempting to assist the
victims, but no trace could be found
OF the cars which had been preclpitated
into the stream The water was so
deep that the engine and tender were
entirely immersed, and the rain falling
In such torrents that there was danger
Of part OF the track being washed out
FIREMAN's STORY.
Fireman Mayfield said that as the
enging struc the trestle IL seemed to
rear up and fall upon its side, falling
to the right, or engineers side. The
fireman jumped and escaped.
The operator at Eden, a mile away
heard the cries for help and rushed to
the creek. When he got there not a
person could be found who had gone
down In the wreck. The cries had been
followed by complete silence. and APP
parently the passengers I'm all three
coaches had gone down to death. II
was reported that there were 100 pas.
sengers in the three cars that went
down. chief Dispatcher Butler states
that this Is about a correct estimate
Of the number.
| q. L.. al hot
J the dead will never be made known
The conductors reports were on his
person and have not been recovered.
FROM SCENE OF WRECK,
Pueblo, Colo, Aug. S.-Another train
has arrived here from the scene OF the
wreck. 1t has aboard the bodies OF
some of the victims.
Eighteen bodies had been taken from
the wreck when the train left Eden
They were all so covered with mud tha
only Cow could be Identified The fol
lowing have been positively Identified,
Major w. H. Whitman, from som,
point in Kansas. He was identified
by one OF the rescued passengers wh'
was chatting with him just before th'
dlsater.
j. +. Rees. express messenger,
Charles Hlndman, engineer
j. II. smith, conductor.
Vina Sbley stenographer for Con
gresham II. NJ. Hogg, of the Secon'
district.
The following are known to hay,
been on the wrecked train, and are be
iieved to be dead:
Miss Mlneold Davis, rs years old
| Pueblo,
Mrs. George i. West, widow OF for
mer mayor OF Pueblo,
Miss Title Thompson, Old Franklin
Mo.
: DR.. Mum, Pueblo. dentist.
Miss Irene Wright, Pueblo.
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