The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-12
FIRST ESTIMATE
ABOUT CORRECT
One Hundred Lives Lost in Rio
Grande Wreck.
BODIES MAY NEVER BE FOUND
RELICS PICKED UP ALONG BED
OF DRY CREEK.

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= Pueblo, Colo. Aug. 11.-Careful =
= revision of the lists Of dead and =
= missing confirms the original es- =
= innate that not less than 100 lives ,
= were lost in the food which p
= wrecked the Missouri Pacific fast =
, train on the Denver & Rio Grande ,
= railroad near Eden Sunday night =
y Seventy-nine bodies have been >
y recovered, nineteen passengers >
= on the wrecked train are miss =
= ing. and ten other persons are
= reported missing, who are not =
y positively known TO have been on =
= the train.
, One corpse is still classed as +
= unidentified, though several per
y sons have recognized it as Mrs. =
= Jennie Sharpless, a well-known ,
y Woman's Christian Temperance ,
: Union worker Of South Bend. Ind =
Pueblo, Colo, Aug. Flew devel-
opments are expected today in connee-
ton with the disastrous wreck Of last
Sunday night. over 100 searchers left
the city early TO continue work where
il was left of yesterday, but most OF
the ground has been pretty thoroughly
Investigated as was shown by the fact
that very few bodies were found yes
terday.
Much interest attaches to the YER
dict. of. the coroner's jury, which is
expected to complete its work today.
a very thorough investigation is be-
ing made, and mass of evidence col
iected, many witnesses having been
examined.
The body of George W. Geopert has
been recovered and identified He is
said to have been a representative of
Joseph Fetz's wholesale liquor house
in San Francisco.
Many Relics Found.
Relics of the Eden wreck that have
been found by searchers along the
bed of Dry creek and Fountain river
may prove to be valuable clews in
cases of mysterious disappearance
Among these are two watches num-
bered 6357077 and Ss273S9. The first OF
the numbers is stamped in a hunting
e~Se watch. which contains the photo
graphs of a man and a woman With
this watch were found a diamond ring
a long gold chain Of very light weight
and breast pin, which has French
coat of arms and some notices in that
language. On the photograph of the
woman in the back Of the watch ap-
pear the initials +. c. B.. placed there
with black ink.
Watch No. SS273e9 is hunting case
mans watch. with a heavy twisted
gold chain, which has a peculiar charm
at its end.
Package of Spoons.
A package containing five souvenir
spoons and card bearing the name OF
DR.. Lynn D. Mathews has been found.
The presumption is that Dr. Mathews
was on the train and was drowned.
T. J. Schurman of Warrensburg
do., was the name written on the tag
Of g valise. Schurman was perhaps
lost. although his name has not been
among those of the missing or identl-
fed dead.
There was a woman's gold watch de-
iivered to the coroner, in which the
name ''Tillie- was engraved It is
thought that 1T belonged to Mrs. Mary
Price of La Sale, H., whose body
has been found.
Funerals Yesterday.
During the funerals Of many Pueblo
victims Of the Eden disaster. which
were held today, all the large business
houses were closed, notices on the cur
tains reading: Because of the city's
dead
Developments indicate that the bod
les of the missing victims have been
sucked into the quicksand and will
never be recovered 1t was shown by
the hosting of the wrecked engine
that an immense deposit of quicksand
lay under the piers of the wrecked
bridge, and it is also believed there is
an underflOw which has undoubtedly
carried bodies deep down in the sand.
entirely out of sight. where they can
never be recovered. Further investiga-
ton reveals the fact that quicksand
exists everywhere along the river. and
this is taken to explain the failure to
find number of bodies.