The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-09
Wreck on Rio Grande
 Fearful in Result.
NUMBEROF DEAD UNKNOWN
Improbable That All the
 C0rpSeS Will Be Found.
Two Crowded Passenger Cars and Bng- gage Car Engulfed In Torrent Hut the Pullmans Luckily
 Escape.

Pueblo, Col, Aug. S.-The wreck of the Worlds Fair Flyer on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, near Eden, seven miles north of Pueblo, last even ing, proves to have been one of the greatest railroad disasters in the his tory of the country.
 | Two crowded passenger cars and a baggage car were engulfed in the tor rent that tore out a trestle spanning Steel and Hollow, otherwise known as Dry Creek, and as far as known to- night only three of the occupants of these cars escaped death. Fortunately two sleeping cars and a diner, com pleting the train, remained on the track at the edge of the abyss, and none of their occupants was killed or injured.
 How many perished probably will never be definitely ascertained, for the treacherous sands are drifting over the bodies. Scearching for the dead was begun about midnight on an extensive scale. and still is in progress tonight.
 All corpses found were brought to Pueblo and placed in four morgues here.
 Seventy-two Bodies Found.
 At o'clock this afternoon seventy two bodies had been recovered, and of these fifty had been identified. Dur ing the day bodies were recovered all the way along Fountain River from the scene of the wreck to this city.
 At 1 o'clock this afternoon two. bodies were taken from the stream at First Street, Pueblo. more than eight miles from the point where the dis aster occurred and 1t is probable that some may even be recovered further down stream. None of the bodies is badly mutilated and all are in such condition as to be recognizable. Many tdentifcations have been made by ar ticles found on the bodies, no persons who viewed them recognizing the fca- lures.
 Masses of earth had caved in from the sides of the river at many places, and a large nunber Of bodies were dug out of the sand. Some bodies were found lodged in the shrubbery along the banks and others in the wreckaEe In mid-stream.
 Without doubt the greater majority were drowned when the cars were plunged into the swirling water thirty. five feet deep and 100 feet wide.
 Creek Very Narrow.
 The walls of the so-called Dry creek are irregular but still so narrow that 1t Is almost impossible to understand how the great coaches and baggage car and tender coui1 have been swept so far without becoming lodged against the sides. Most of the bed of the creek is now visible with the little streams waving about the strips of sand, form ing islands of mud and sand which are being searched for bodies that may lie buried in them.
 F. M. Jones, the station agent at Eden who was the nrsst to go to the aid of the stricken peopl con the train gives the following version of the accident:
 T was sitting in my office, a dis tance of a mile from the scene of the wreck when suddenly a loud sound fol- lowed by a series of smaller reports startled me. I had heard of No. II passing Pinon from the operator there and at this time she was overdue more than six minutes. an unusual thing, for the train is a flyer.
 Becoming throughly alarmed I seized my lanterns and ran up the track to the place where the bridge should have been.
 The faint rays of my lantern threw just enough light for me to distinguish three cars, but between myself and them there was a chasm fully 50 feet wide through which dashed a river al- most level with the ground upon which T the outlines of three cars but the other four that usually make up No. Il were nowhere in sight.
 Found n Chair Car.
 T started across the Mesa in the direction of the river. which was high and making much noise. After walk ing about half mile. I saw near the bank a dark object. It was ai most stationary in midstream, with
 
 bank. I slipped off my clothes and plunged in. swimming fin the direction from which I had come. as I knew the strong current would carry me down stream. By proceeding in this course, managed to get to the object. which proved to be a chair car. half on its side and hald in position by du arm of land extending into the stream probably 15 feet. The roof of the car was gone and inside there was not q soul to be found. Guided by the light on shore. I struck out for the bank again. The car, or what was left of It. broke loose and was completely de- molished
 There were two, survivors of the wreck that I know of. the fireman and a passenger in a chair car. His story he told me in a dazed manner. It seems he was sitting in the third chair from the rear of the car when the train turned upward and the suddenness pre- ' cipitated him through the window and after turning a complete circle. landed him safe on the bank"
 The Identified Dead. A list of the identified dead is J. r. Bishop. architect. Pueblo; Etta F. Bishop sister of J. F. Bishop. Pueblo; George Beck Pueblo; Miss Bennett Pueblo: - Bethel Cripple Creek; H Curtis. Pueblo; Don Campbell. Pueblo; Miss Carrie Downing. Pueblo; J. F.. Meich. Pueblo; George England. Colo rado Springs: Jesse T Gray, Pueblo; II. R. Graves, Pueblo; Mrs. Garland Denver; J. G. Galbraith, Pueblo; J. G. Graham, Florence. Col: A. E. Hoos. Pueblo: Harry Hough. Denver; G. W. Geppert St. Louis; Edward and I.il- Han Garland. children. Denver: Miss Gertrude Boyle. Pueblo; E. L. Messer' Tiff. Col; Elsie Roland. Lindsborg' Kas.; B. T. Lashell, Denver; Dr. James B. MacGregor, Ballard, Wash-' Mrs Parker, Pueblo: William Hughes, Pueb- To; A. G. Hess, Pueblo; Miss Pearl