Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-09
Business Houses Are Closed and
Entire City Is One Immense
Funeral Procession
ENTIRE FAMILIES WIPED OUT
Mayor Brown Call. Public Meeting
to Launch Organized Movement to
Patrol Rivers-sodies Recovered
More Than Ten Miles From Scene Of
Disaster.

Pueblo, Aug. 9--Deep gloom has been
carried down upon this city today, fol-
lowing the railroad horror which snuff
ed out hundred or more lives yester-
da- Many business houses are closed
out of respect to the dead. Those dead
in the wreck will probably not be the
only ones or the most to be pitied as
already several cases of total loss OF
mind IT'S result Of the shock when told
of the loss of loved ones is reported.
All the citizens have joined in one inn
mense funeral procession winding in
creasingly from one morgue to another.
The death list, as compiled from the
best pcssible information early today.
shows a total of sixty-six identified
dead twenty-e eight missing, and six
unidentified making an even hundred
lives lost. This list will probably be
added to during the day. The death
loss to Pueblo alone reaches sixty five
ives with forty identifications already
made Search for the bodies Is being
vigorously continued today.
There is scarcely person in Pueblo
who does not suffer personal loss
kowing some one Of the victims as n
friend. Entire families have been wip-
ed out, one instance being that of ]. @.
Thomas, commercial agent of the Santa
Fe rairoad. who together with his wife
lost their lives in the raging waters.
Many bodies have been removed from
the morgues to their former places 1f
R,x, iol 80.
gun Hundreds of people are still
passing thru the morgues today. some
with morbid curiosity. others SEQ i-sx.
10 Identify tie remaining boz
night the long search was ke. :
an occasional body located hs.ss
darkness the work IVES
slow. Fountain river. that iro tGi.-
erous OF streams, into which 81 ta.,
dead bodies are washing, had today
fallen to nearly its normal condition.
which made the work of rescue easier,
although still dangerous from tho
quicksand, which proved such a factor
in delaying the work yesterday. This
did not deter the searchers from re-
suming the quest for other victims to-
day.
Mayor Prown called public meeting
this morning for the purpose OF
launching an organized movement to
patrol Fountain and Arkansas rivers In
the hope of finding more bodies. Hun
dreds OF men responded promptly, and
work was taken up under the direction
OF able officials assisted by the more
than willing workers. Bodies have been
recovered more than ten miles from
the scene of the disaster, and there are
rdmors that some. have been found
ever further distant. At the scene of
the wreck early today everything was
practically the same as yesterday. The
chair car was turned completely over
and has settled in the quicksand until
only one wheel Is now visible and has
resisted all efforts to raight it or gain
entrance to what is thought has been
a trap in which may be found several
bodies. The railroad situation has ma
terially improved, traffic being resumed
this morning over the Rio Grande
track. wrecking crews will probably
wipe out all traces of the horrible cat
astrophe by tonight.