Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-10-21
ATENCI0 DIES OF INJURIES.
Received in the Denver & Rio Grande
Accident Yesterday Morning.
Wreckaee Cleared.

The wreck on the Denver & Rio
Grande Railroad which occurred YES.
terday afternoon at Caliente, half way
between Seryilleta and Barranca, oc-
Cured on short curve, as the train
from Antonito, Colorado, to Santa
t'e was running at the rate of twenty
miles an hour. The locomotive, two
freight cars and the mail car had
rounded the curve when piece two
feet long, broke out of a rail throw
ing the front'trucks of the first passen.
ger car from the track. The last car
also left the track, both cars fitting
over. H. A. Wagner, of Tulsa, Indian
Territory, who was killed, had been
standing on the rear platform of the
first car and either jumped or was
| thrown off, the second car falling on
top OF him, the trucks plnning him
down so that his body could not be
eXtricated until the wrecling crane
from Alamosa lifted, the trucks late
last evening. His skull was fractured
and his chest crushed, death having
resulted 1nstantaneously. He had not
been missed at first and it was only
some time after the accident that Mail
Clerk Ira Seffens, in helping to check
over the fifteen passengers on the
train, observed valise and oyercoat
in the car which seemed to belong to
no passenger. A search resulted in
Seffens discovering Wagner under the
wreckage. Manuel Atencio, who had
his right leg cut off near the hip, was
standing on the front platform of the
1lrst passenger car and when the car
commenced to tilt tried to jump to the
rear platform of the mail and express
car. He slipped and his leg was
caught between. the step of the car
and tie, being ground SO that it hung
by only a few shreds. The limb was
SO badly crushed that there was but
slight bleeding. Fortunately, there
was physician on the train who ban
daged the gaping wound Atencio
was brought to st. Vincent's Hospital
last evening, the train arriving short
y after s o'clock. The train from
Santa Fe also brought a physician
from Espanola, who did all in his DOW
er for the comfort of the injured man.
who was conscious until he arrived
here last evening. One woman had
her shoulder badly wrenched and sew
eral other passengers We're bruised
but it is a wonder that any of the
passengers escaped with their lives.
The train to Antonito was delayed un-
til late last night by the wreckage.
One of its passenger coaches was at
tached to the train for Santa Fe for
the accommodation of the down pas
sengers.
| Atencio, after being taken to the
hospital sank rapidly and died at $50
o'clock. Charles Wagner, undertaken
was called and embalmed the body.
The remains were sent to the dead
mans former home at Santa Cruz on
this mornings Denver & Rio Grande
train.
H. A. Wagner was in Santa Fe
Wednesday afternoon and left the
next morning for Servilleta. He board
ed the train which was wrecked yes
terday morning at Servilleta to go to
Barranca a few miles south, and in
the short space of time between Ser
villeta and the scene of the disaster
met his death. 1t was reported in the
city today that he was connected with
the department of the interior, as
special agent, but no confirmation of
this could be secured.
The track torn up by the smashup
has been repaired and trains are run
ming as usual The northbound train
left the city this morning at 1870 and
the southbound train arrived in tlte
city at o'clock this afternoon.
Wreck in Otero County.
Alamogordo, N. NJ, Oct. 21.-Freight
train No. 49, which left Alamogordo
on the Ell Paso & Southwestern
at 1925 Friday, southbound, blew out
crownsheet near Escondida, Otero
County while running at speed of
|about 25 miles an hour.
| The engine turned over on it's side
and four coke cars piled about it.
The wrecker was sent out together
with a coach containing Doctors Kirk
patrick, Miller and Van Arsdell. The
train arrived in Alamogordo about
|o'clock with the wounded on board.
Bridegford is the worst injured and
will probably die. Lonergan was bur
lied under mass of coke and timbers
and iron, but some hope is expressed
for him. A Mexican coal passer was
badly injured and may die.
The head brakeman was badly
bruised, but will recover.