Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-08-11
DROWNED In WRECKED RAILROAD Cars

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\ Capt. oisaitrnan graduated from Wes
Point In June, 1896. He was major II
the Twentieth Kansas regiment during
the Spanish war. After being mustered
out as q volunteer he resumed his
place In the regular army, being pro
NOTED to captain. His last station was
fort Logan, Col. After visiting with
his father he was going on to Man
assas, Va, where he was to act as um-
pire In the eastern army maneuvers.
One Of the saddest stories is that Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Gilbert, Of Okla
homa City, Ok, who had been married
only two months and were on their
honeymoon trip. Gilbert is one of the
three men who marvelously escaped
from the chair car. His wife, who
was sitting beside him. was lost and,
although he is unscathed. her death
has made him q nervous wreck. He
is now In the Pueblo hospital. He has
been wire chief of the Western Union
Telegraph company at Oklahoma City.
The Fountain river still rushes with
the impetus Of the flood and the arroyo
has clear, tiny stream trickling along
where the fatal mass of water rushed
few hours before. The earth on
either side Is swept clean by the flood.
The walls Of the so-called Dry creek
are rugged, irregular, caving and
widened, but still SO narrow that it Is
almost impossible to understand how
the great coaches, the baggage car and
tender could have swept SO far with
out becoming lodged against the Sides
Most Of the bed Of the creek is now
visible, with little streams weaving
about the strips of sand, forming is
lands of mud and sand which are be-
ing searched for bodies that may lie
buried In them.
Five hundred men scanned every
inch Of the river and its surroundings
few hours after daylight. They
waded in the stream and carried out
mud-begrimed bodies which were
found at widely separated points, some
Of them miles from the scene of the
accident. The first corpses recovered
were those of Miss Irene Wright and
little Dorothy Johnson An unknown
woman lay beside them. Engineer
Hindman was found with his watch
still running, few fet further down
the stream.
Identified dead ]. F. Bishop, archi- |
tect; Eta e. Bishop, George Beck,
Miss Bennell, Miss Bethel, H. Curtis,
Don Campbell, Miss Carrie Downing,
J. Enrich, Jesse E. Gray, H. R.
Graves, Pueblo; Mrs. Garland, Den
yer; J, G. Galbraith, Pueblo: J. G.
Florence, COL; A. e. Hoes,
Pueblo: Harry Hough Denver; Will
liam Hughes, A. - t1ess; mr~, eai,
Hopper, Pueblo; Henry Hinman, en-
gineer, Denver; Dorothy Johnson,
eight years old, Mrs. James Heating, I
Ida Leonard, Mrs. Robert Linfoot, Miss
Stella Mcdonald, Max Morris, Pueblo;
R. o. Meats, Denver; Hugh McCracken,
Aurora, ILL.,; A. s. Maxwell, Miss Annie
Pine, Pueblo; Miss Mary Price, La
Sale, ILL.,; T. s. Rees, express messen-
ger, Denver: Bud Seward, Miss Alice
Sturgeon, Miss Winnie Selby, Pueblo;
Miss Ellen Stevens, Northampton.
Mass; Miss Lotta Shoup, Grand
Rapids, Mich; ]. H. Smith, conductor,
Denver; Mrs. Tillie Thompson, Pueblo;
Joseph F. Turner, brakeman, Denver;
Miss Emily Wood, Miss Erne Wright,
Miss Nellie Williams, Miss Florence
Walker, l. W. Wright, Maj. Frank H.
Whitman, formerly Of the Twentieth
Kansas volunteers; Mrs. A. L. Yeagla,
pueblo; g. W. Geppert, st. Louis; Ed
Yard and Lillian Garland, children,
Denver; Miss Gertrude Boyle, Pueblo;
II Mosier, Iliff, COL; Elsie Roland,
Iindsborg, Kan; B. T. Lashell, Den
'er; Mrs. Parker, Pueblo.
Missing-Elsie Roland. DR.. w. F.
dunn, Mrs. John s. Moltier and two
Minnie Davis, Malcolm 8.
higgins, Frank Bodman, Mrs. H. s.
Hilbert, v. B. Durham, Minnie Selby,
Iophie Gilchrist. James O'Bannon,
diss Chancellor, Miss Boseman, Pueb-
0; Mrs Mary Welch. Chicago; Miss
Iadenburg, Salina, Kan; Clyde Price,
Aurora, ILL.,; Margaret Donnelly, Mrs.
Ienry Donnelly, DR.. 2. @. Stimmel,
lalph swarrscup, J. Q. Thombas and
vife, Miss Marguerite Kelley, Pueblo;
n. James B. MacGregor, Ballard.
vash.; Harold B. Page, Denver; James