Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-08-11
MANY DIE IN WRECK
TRAIN ON RIO eRANDE ROAD
GOES THROUGH BRIDGE.

Two Passenger Coaches and Baggage
Car Swept Away by the Raging
Deep With Sand.
Pueblo, Colo, Aug. 9.-The wreck
of the Worlds fair flyer on the Den
yer and Rio Grande railroad near
Eden. seven miles north of Pueblo,
proves to have been one vi the great
est railroad disasters in the history
of the country. Two crowded passen-
ger cars and baggage car We're en-
quilted in the torrent that tore out a
tyestle spanning Steele's Hollow,
otherwise known as Dry creek, and
so far as known only three OF the &C.
cupants of these cars escaped death.
Fortunately two sleeping cars and
diner, completing the train, remained
on the track at the edge of the abyss,
and none of those on board was killed
or injured.
How many persisted probably will
never be definitely ascertafned. for
| tile treacherous sands are drifting
over the bodies. Searching for the
dead was begun on an extensive scale
and still is in progress. All corpses
found were brought to Pueblo and
placed in four morgues here. Seven
ty-six bodies have been recovered and
| of these fifty have been Identified.
Bodies We're recovered all the way
along Fountain river, from the scene
of the wreck to this CITY, Two bodies
were taken from the stream at First
street, Pueblo, more than eight miles
from the point where the disaster oc-
Cured, and it is probable that some
may be recovered even further down
stream. None of the bodies are bad
ly mutilated and all are in such con-
dition as to be recognizable. Many
identifications have been made by ar
ticles found on the bodies, no persons
who viewed them recognizing the
features.
Identified dead: Major Frank w.
Whitman, Topeka; Lota Shoup, Grand
Rapids; Ella Stevens, Northampton;
Hugh McCracken, Aurora, ILL.,; Mary
Price, LaSalle; George England, Col
orado Springs; Mrs. Garland, Harry
Hough, Engineer Harry Hinman, R.
o. Meats, T. S. Rees, Conductor ]. H.
Smith. Brakeman Joseph F. Turner,
all of Denver; j. q. Graham, Florence,
]. F. Bishop, Eta E. Bishop, George
Beck, Miss Bennell, H. Curtis, d. Bell,
Carrie Downing j. Emerich, Jesse E.
Gray, H. R. Graves, ]. G. Galbraith, A.
/ m Wy; A
Pearl Hopper, Dorothy Johnson, Jane
Heating, Mrs Robert Linfott, Ida
Leonard, Stella Mcdonald, Max Nor
ris, A. S. Maxwell, Annie Pine, Bud
Seward, Alice Sturgeon, Winnie Selby,
Tillie Thompson, Emily Wood, Mrs,
J George F. West, Erne Wright, Nellie
, Williams, Florence Walker, 1. w
Wright and Mrs. A. L. Yeagla, all OF
Pueblo; W. Bethel, Cripple Creek.
Two sleeping cars and the diner
stopped at the brink of the hungry
chasm filled with a boiling, seething
current that quickly snuffed out prob
ably 100 lives. So quietly had the ca
tastrophe been enacted that the occu
pants of the three cars remaining on
the track did not realize that an acct
dent had occurred until they alighted
from the train. Then they we're ut
terly powerless to render assistance
to the victims, who had disappeared
in the rushing waters.
The condition of the bridge was not
known until the locomotive had nearly
9 crossed Fireman Frank Mayf1eld
with a torch that the engineer ant
, fireman had burning to ascertain the
i condition Of the track, was in the
y gangway. When Engineer Hinmar
i felt the tremor in the great machine
and caught glimmer of the water hi
i shouted his last words: PUT ou
= that TORCH" evidently thinking tina
in the accident he felt certain wa
coming, the flames would serve Il
spread fire.
But before Mayfield could obey
while the words were still on the lip
J. of the doomed man, the bridge CAV
n way as if it had been stack of kind
9 ling wood, and the locomotive droppe
e with the Kissing of steam, thirty fee
J. to the bottom of the creek.
The baggage car, smoking car an
chair car followed the locomotive int
FL the stream and were swept away. A
,e the occupants of these cars, saw
= three men, persisted, and had not tn
roof of the chair car burst asunde
none would have escaped. The fir
y man, as the locomotive went owe
was thrown out. He ran towar
Eden, meeting on the way Operate
Jones, who had already started Il
~ the track. They had seen the hea'
e. e. light of the approaching train mi
~ % ute before and had witnessed it di
A appear with ominous suddenness.
% Notify Pueblo" came the voice
y. the running man, "the trains gor
I'd down and everybody is killed" !.
a. Even as he spoke, relates the ope
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