Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-08-11

| sarily slow. Up to O'Clock about 40
bodies have been recovered
A statement of officials of the D. n
r. G., based on statement of a brake
man who passed through the train at
| Colorado Springs. says that there were
not more than seventy people on the
train, but this is believed to be less
than within twenty-five OF the true
number
The story of the wreck as told by
| Fireman Mayfield is disconnected He
says he was coaling when he felt a
| Jerk. and the next thing he remember
ed he was struggling in the stream,
| He managed to crawl TO the bank be.
| cause the engine In falling had listed
to the right side. He sat a moment on
/ the bank dazed by the suddenness of
| the shock, He then hurried to Eden.
where the news was wired to Pueblo
and relief and wrecking trains were
| Immediately sent out Passengers of
| the first wreclSing train tell pitiful
| story of the sight that met their eyes
when first they reached the spot at
| which the disaster occurred Huddled
| in a group were half dozen passen-
! gers more or less badly injured try.
| Ing 10 make themselves comfortable
by building fires out of the wreckage
of the cars. No attempt could be made
at any rescue work There was no
way to reach the doomed passengers
| Their dying shrieks filled the air and
made the night hideous Two hours
after the trestle had given way the
wafer had gone down but two feet. al
| though today the creek bed Is prac
| tically dry. The scenes are pltifW at
| the wreck, where stricken parents
brothers. sweethearts. husbands and
wives search in vain for loved ones.
Great interest today centered In the
| Missouri Pacific railroad wreck. an ac-
count of which appears in this issue
! The Herald bulletin, posted just be-
| fore noon, was the first TO give the
news. For some time 1t was difficult
to get definite details. The first dis
patch of any length gave the name OF
o. S. Galbreath of Durango as one OF
| the survivors. This led people to he
ieve that 1t was the' train from this
division that was wrecked, as it was
known that Mr. Gnlbreath had left
the middle of the week for South
Fork and was going TO Denver through
Alamosa, although he expected to
leave Friday night. In case II had
been the San Juan train 1t meant the
death of several Durangotes and
other San Juaners leaving Durango
tFa ar1a ,f,,a, I, 4.
the Missouri Pacific flyer leaving Den
yer last evening bound for St Louis
Mr.. Galbreath had been in Denver
with his daughter. Mrs. Roscoe, and
the latter was one of the passenger 3
bound for her Tennessee home beil
accompanied by her father as far as
Pueblo. Mr. Galbreath wired Mr. II
NJ. Andrew about noon from Pueblo.
asking him to convey to his wife that
we are all safe" meaning that both
himself and daughter escaped That
they should be among the seventeen
surviving members of a party of about
$50 is miraculous. This is the second
| time Mr.. Galbreath has been in
bad wreck on the ID. a. r. G. Some
eight or ten years ago he was in a
wrecked train near Florence where
, several were killed, C. NJ. Williams be-
ing in the same sleeper at the time
and being the first to get out of the
wrecked car went to the assistance OF
Mr.. Galbreath. While the wreck is
terrible to contemplate 1t is reassur
Ing news to our people to know that
1t was not the San Juan train, which
would mean sorrow for many of our
intimate friends.
Herald bulletins were posted at the
postoiiice during the afternoon and
people congregated in crowds and dis
cussed the accident, anxiously await
| ing news as to the train, and If any
Durango people We're among the killed
The Herald also received telephone
messages from Silverton making in
| quiries, and to ease the minds OF the
, people of that place The Herald tele-
phoned the newspapers brief details.
/ EDEN, Colo, Aug 9.-Gradually the
, list of victme of Sunday nights dis.
aster is becoming more definite. Al
noon today careful compilation OF
/ the figures shows the number TO be
| just one hundred. OF the Identified
/ dead there are GO, of unidentified g,
t, and reported missing 2S. making a
+. total of a hundred lives.
OF those who were hurled into the
, gulf OF water only four saved their
; lives. The exact number of dead will
probably never be known, as 1t will be
, impossible to tell positively just the
number of passengers on board the Ill
| fated train.
PUEBLO, Aug. 9.-ThIs city is
1 draped In gloom. Over sixty-ive rep
rcsentative citizens were hurled TO
! death in the Rio Grande wreck OF
| Sunday. Nearly all the business
houses are closed. and slowly the
bodies are being taken from their tenn
! porary resting PLACES at the morgues
(, to their homes. The city is crowded
! with mourners as well as by hundreds
+, of the morbidly curious. and every
/. train which arrives here is filed with
| passengers from Denver and Colorado
Springs.
| PUEBLO. Colo, Aug. "a rigid in.
/ yestigation has already begun on facts