The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-08-12

lail poalSs
Fountain creek by the wall of water,
which had force enough to carry the
nearly four miles away from
the point where they Went through the
bridge. The known dead:
DIR. w. H. MOCK.
ELLA WOOD.
W. III. LA MOON AND WIFE.
MINNIE SELBY, q music teacher.
LOWELL Durham. a clerk.
MAJOR w. II. WHITMAN. KAN.
j. f. REEFS, express messenger.
CHARLES HINDMAN, engineer.
J.. II. SMITH, conductor.
ZINA S1BLEY, s~tenographer for
Congressman Hogg.
A. L. HOES.
MRS. JOHN s. MoLLITER 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.
/. w. WRIGHT, of Pueblo.
MRS. ELLA STEVENS. N%ortharnp-
ton. Mass.
MISS LEONARD, Chicago.
The missing:
Hugh McCracken, Trino, Ill.
Clyde Trino, Aurora, Eli.
Engineer Hitman.
Conductor Smith,
Messenger Reefs.
The three last named are from Den
yer, and from seventy-ave to ninety OF
the passengers.
Others Probably Dead.
The following are bnown to have
been on the train anG are believed to
be dead:
Mineola Davis.
Mrs. George L. West.
DR.. Num-.
Irene Wright.
Emma Wood.
Joseph Turner, brakeman.
nfa daughter and sister-in-law OF
Harry Johnson. all of Pueblo.
Title Thompson.
Old Franklin.
Ida Leonard two relatives. from
Chicago and LaSalle.
Sallie Pine.
Mrs. James Mckee and child.
Mrs. Mckee. 81.
The work CT rescue is progressing
well.
A Fearful Disaster.
The disaster is the worst that ever
occurred on the Denver Rio Grande
road. A c%loudburst had filled the creek
lIle MalCl v VIZ ASt'NA-
when the train. consisting of six cars,
started across. The engine, baggage
car, smoker and chair car We're 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 ant
trainmen who accompanied him organ
ICED a searching party to follow the
course of the creek cars and fount
them close to the shore in Fountain
creek. The chair car was a half mils
flied with sand, in which were buried
many bodies. The smoker was washed
still further down stream.
The body of Engineer Hindman wa!
found 80 feet from the wreck. j. NJ
Killen, a Pueblo merchant, was swep
down stream but crawled out from tn
w~reckage a mile below the accident. s.
badly injured and exhausted he wa
unable to talk coherently.
When the train pulled out of Den
yer last evening nearly every coacl
was filed and 1t was running at higl
speed through the storm to make tn
fast schedule time. when 1t droppe
through the bridge. The rains ha
: been severe, but the officials did no
apprehend n danger at Dry creek. I
late inspection showed the bridge 1
first class condition.
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l engineer evidently did not see the wa
. ter pouring over the trestle until to
late to stop the train. whether the en-
I CINE the torrent OF water from tn
cloudburst swept down Simultaneous.
or the torrent had already undermine
, the structure, is not known, but re
ports say the engineer put on his al
! thus saving the diner and sleeper frol
being precipitated into the creek.
Dry creek is n Of the most danger
Gus points on the road. 1t Is close
!, the foot hills, which by reason of re
. peated ~cloudbursts and washouts haN
been slowly closing in the bed of tt
: creek continually becoming deeper. VI
til it has reached a depth OF abo,
:, twenty-five feet.
u At 10 o'clock this morning twent,
{ two bodies were brought to Puebl
nearly all unidentified. The swolle
features and mangled remains rendere
recognition almost impossible.
e List of Those Rescued.
The list OF rescued:
G. C. Meerson, Fort Scott, Kan.
e E. E. Wilson. C~offeyville, Kan.
Arthur =. Brown. Maiden, Mass.
n H. II. Dorm. Cleveland, o.
e Miss Jessie Densom, Salt Lake City.
y H. j. Crabbe, Salt Lake City.
Mr. and Mrs. Dinazzi and dauShte
Texarkana, Tex.