The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-08-09
ONE OF MOST STEERRlB E LEs 4
OF. RAIL DAD SDl sKSTERsS
Train Was Y. Moving Isl aslowly and nd
Cauti tiously When Treac tlerous
B5 Timbers Col Collapsed peyl1 and n
8lS Flung Engine Head long !s
Seventy-six Corp pses s
A5asts Rescued. sS SSs
(By Associated Press }

PUEBLO r ~ CO 10. Aug. g.. S
The wreck of tie orld's air.
flyer on the Denver and Rio
|Grande Railroad, near = den, sew
Ien miles north Of P'',e blo, last. il:s1'S
.evening proves tos t;z' have 3, bean ;:;rli
one Of the great st rail road dis dis
|yasterssinS asst the history of the coun- ;tt,I
try.
We croWdled pa;s:sieng p;l;s:ii ears & ll.s
and q baggage car ere engullldf fsedsss e1dss
lin the orient tllat Il tore soutsSa
trsstle spanning Steele' ollolW,s
l2otherWis 81 lsno Dry 81. Greek,
;anntd1 81 fa as lloWr s1l tosniigh
only three Of the occu ants q :,t;Si
I3ttese cars ped deatl or or
Etunately two sleep ping ars and and al g
dining car compl eting the train train
remained on the track lat the edge
|5of@the abyss, and one Of their
occupants W'ere killed Sor jurtes,d n.
low many peris he'd prob;a bly, Il.
never will be definitel ascer,2s as. s.:s:s2I
taslined for the tie cherous s sands
are drifting over the bodies: o'diles
Searching Or III dead was be- bt''es;ss
gun about midnigh hit on an an lss; sex- u
stensiiv,eS scale, and lis Still in pro-
gress tonight. All corpses found q 7jllASI
were brought to Puebl o' and and
iced iii fo,ur naorgues here IS 4 Ass z'I'
H o'clock this evening seven ty-six s;li;sS1s
sties had been reco'Y cred and ll Il a
5f had been dentifSiesd. # ,s.
During the day bodies We're Y, St5 res rrsl
covered all the wa along F'o 81 rl-s2I llss
tain River from the scene Of the I
;Wreck to this city,. At Isso clock. 81.
this afternoo on two bodies We're
taken from the stream at First
Street, Pueblo, more than eight
miles from the point where the
disaster occurred, and is prob
able that some may he recoversd
even further down stream.
Running Cautiously. s
E On the lookout for danger, warned by @
the sqnally clouds and heavy rains to the ss2
north Engineer Charles Hindman was aS
running cautiously about fifteen miles Is. ..ss
an hour as he approac he'd the Arroyo Il;
which was sp1ened by a bridge ninety
six feet In length. The condfti ION of the 81
bridge was not known until the locomo- sE9s
tive one OF the monster passenge type, s
had dnearly$orossed. Fireman Frank May
field, with a torch that the engineer
and the fireman had burning to ascertain
gang way. When Engineer Hindman felt u
the tremora In the great machine and
caught glinimer on the water he
shouted his last words; A v Put ou t tn 7 8s3
torch,''5 evidently thinking that In the
accident he felt certain was coming the aEs
flames wol,ld serve to spread fire. Bnt
before Mayfield could obey, while the ss
words were still on the III ips of the, III
doomed man. and his hands seeking the ".
mechanism controlling the air brak es the sg@
bridge gave Way as though II had heen #
a stack OF kindllng wood, and IN sloeo-B d
motive drOpped d Win tHa SnissnE OH stetlr
thirty feet to the bottom of he Afreyo,s s{ sss{
crosswisc to the track, 81 ii Il g5
All Perished Except Three.
4 The hag gage car, Smoking car q nd chair
car followed the locomotye into lsssSs
stream and were swept away. 4 he sa-
occupants OF Il hess carss except three men
.perished, and had not tho roof snf the
chair car burst aRunler none would have
escaped. The fireman. AS the incomofly
vent. over, was thrown out and, nsaaas-
Ing to grasp a piece of Wreclsage from ths
bridge foated With that TO a curve mad y. a.
by the cayIng hank, and erept out OF the
water. Ho ran toward Eden meeting on
the way Operator +, N. Jones' and hta
wife. Who already had started UP the "a
track. al n Al \. T, u {. N "
Pueblo came the voice OF the @
running man; ttstte train q gone down and
5eyelyhody ~ kil led IN l5 "a t5s
Even as he spoke. relates the opera
tor, there We're csles coming from Tho "a
distance, The two men ran 70 where
the bridge had been 40 search, but IN YAH. h 4.
Tor victims os the a!Sassss IghsA lAaE