The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-08-12

was no water IN Dry creek. Inc eN-
press car was found near the scene of
the wreck. with the safe open and its
contents gone
Many bodies were carried down
Fountain creek by the wall of water,
which had force enough to carry the
coaches nearly four miles away from
the point where they went through the
bridge. The known dead:
DIR. w. H. MOCK.
ELLA WOOD.
w. H. LA MOON AND WIFE.
MINNIE SELBY, Il music teacher.
LOWELL DURHAM. q clerk.
MAJOR w. II. WHITMAN. KAN.
j.. +. REEFS, express messenger.
CHARLES HINDMAN, engineer.
j. II. SMITH, conductor.
ZINA SHELLEY. stenographer for
Congressman Hogg.
A. e. HOES.
MRS. JOHN S. M%oLLITER AND
TWO CHILDREN.
MISSES DAVIS, HADENBERG AND
ROWLAND.
MRS. MARY WEST of Pueblo.
MRS. JAMES SMITH. wife of the
conductor, Denver.
CARRIE DOWNEY.
JOHN CAMPBELL.
ED. CURTIS.
BUD STEWARD.
GEORGE ENGLAND.
HERBERT r. GRAVES.
I. w. WRIGHT, OF Pueblo.
MRS. ELLA STEVENS. Northamp-
ton. Mass.
MISS LEONARD, Chicago.
The missing:
Hugh McCracken, Trino, Ill.
Clyde Trino, Aurora, Ill.
Engineer Hitman.
Conductor Smith.
Messenger Reefs.
The three last named are from Den
Yer, and from seventy-five to ninety Of
the passengers.
Others Probably Dead.
Tho following are known to have
been on the train and are believed to
be dead:
Mineola Davis.
Mrs. George L. West.
DR.. Mum.
Irene Wright.
Emma Wood.
Joseph Turner, brakeman.
Infant daughter and sister-in-law of
Harry Johnson, all of Pueblo.
Tillie Thompson.
Old Franklin.
Ida Leonard and two relatives. from
Chicago and LaSalle.
Sallie Pine.
Mrs. James Mckee and child.
Mrs. Mckee, 81.
The work of rescue is progressing
we'll.
A Fearful Disaster.
The disaster is the worst that ever
occurred IN the Denver Rio Grande
road. A cloudburst had filled the creek,
the water flowing over the trestle
when the train, consisting of six cars,
started acros The engine, baggage
car, smoker and chair car were precipi-
tated into the torrent; the diner and
two sleepers remained on the track.
When Superintendent Bowern reach
ed the scene the missing cars had not
been located. The passengers and
trainmen who accompanied him organ
lied a searching party to follow the
course of the creek cars and found
them close to the shore in Fountain
creek. The chair car was a half mile
from the scene of the accident, half
filed with sand. in which were buried
many bodies. the smoker was washed
still further down stream.
The body of Engineer Hindman was
found 200 feet from the wreck. ]. M.
Killen, n Pueblo merchant, was swept
down stream but crawled out from the
wreckage a mile below the accident, so
badly injured and exhausted he was
unable to talk c~oherently.
When the train pulled out Of Den
yer last evening nearly every coach
was filed and 1t was running at high
speed through the storm to make the
fast schedule time, when it dropped
through h bridge. The rains had
been severe, but the officials did not
a%pprehend any danger at Dry creek. A
late inspection showed the bridge in
first class condition.
So far as officials can determine the
engineer evidently did not see the wa
ter pouring over the trestle until too
late to stop the train, whether the en-
gine and the torrent of water from the
cloudburst swept down simultaneously,
or the torrent had already undermined
the structure, is not known, but re-
ports say the engineer put on his air,
thus saving the diner and sleeper from
being precipitated into the creek.
Dry creek is one OF the most danger
Gus points on the road. It is close to
the foot hills, which by reason of re-
peated cl%oudbursts and washouts have
been slowly closing in the bed of the
creek continually becoming deeper, I'M
I'll 1t has reached a depth Of about
twenty-five feet.
At 10 o'clock this morning twenty
two bodies were brought to Pueblo,
nearly all unidentified. The swollen
features and mangled remains rendered
recognition almost impossible.
List Of Those Rescued.
The list Of rescued:
Q. G. Meerson, Fort Scott, Kan.
%. p. wilson. Coffeyville, Kan.
Arthur X. Brown, Maiden, Mass.
II. II. Dorm. Cleveland, o.
Miss Jessie Densom. Salt Lake City.
II. j. Crabbe, Salt Lake City.
MI. and Mrs. Dinazzi and daughter,
T~exarkana. Tex.