Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1905-06-26
rELEaRAPHic NEWS.


l. the wreckage and the deaths in tn
n hospitals the number of lives los
u IN last nights smashup OF the Twer
= tieth Century Limited train this morn
l. ing reached nineteen. with more thai
= score injured.
t The train was going at the rate o
?. 20 miles an hour in order to maintain
5 the new eightoen!nour schedule whei
+ an open switch was struck and tn,
train plunged with frightful moment
UNI into freight house In an in
slant the monster locomotive and al
the cars but one were transformed
into heap of ruins. The explosion
OF the engine boiler immediatel,
started fire in the wreckage,
The injured were taken to Cleye
land on special trains. Some of the
dead were so badly maised and burn.
ed that Identification will he difficult
The following died at the hospitals:
James Gibson Of Chicago: Ray Rog.
ers of New York: H. H. Wright of
Chicago; - Erbaugh OF Milwau-
kee; Frank Brant trainman; y. A.
Bradley of Akron, o.; Archibald
Head of London; Cnas. wellman OF
Cleveland; Allen Tyler. engineer.
The names OF the dead who were
Killed outright are: Thomas Morgan
of Cleveland. Ray Bennett of New
York, NJ Walters, baggageman; VIII
Mickey, porter ard Henry Trince. the
train barber, Five others remain
unidentified.
Among those fatally injured are:
Fireman Gorham, and S. c. Beckwith.
of New York
General Manager Marshall of the
Lake Shore started an investigation
today. He said he had found undis-
putabie evidence that the switch had
been thrown against tne train. Fire.
man Gorham said the signal light ON
the switch showed white. Railroad
men say 1t was impossible for the
switch TO be open and show a waite
light at the same time. The question
Is asked, was the train going SO fast
that it jumped the track of its own
momentum at the switch?" Manager
Marshall said ne could not say wheth-
or the eighteen-hour schedule would
be abandoned or not
CLEVELAND, o., June gas the
day advances it appears that the aw-
full wreck of the Twentieth Century
Limited last night was caused by the
desperate deed cf tramp The
sharpest investigation mas been made
and 1t is demonstrated the disaster
could not have occurred but for some
hendish design. Everything was
in shipshape, the men were all on
duty, the lights were right and the
switch was right, so IL must have
been opened and locked by some par
" unknown. Another train, the fast
east-bound, passed through the same
switch 10 minutes ahead of No. &c,
the doomed flyer. and 1t was all right
at that time. 1t is positively known
that no other train of any description
passed over the switch between
times.
The train was travelling over a mile
a minute. The great engine left the
track and swung violently to the left.
and then turned on its side. just east
of the depot. The momentum was
such that the heavy tender was nurl-
ed entirely over the engine and bur
led in the depot. The combination
car was hurled with terrific force on
top OF the engine and in a moment
was enveloped in flames. The Cnica
go sleeper was tnen telescoped and
cries of the dying were heard.
SPRINGFIELD, Ills, June 22.-The
supreme court today granted writ ,
of supercedeas in the case of Jockey
Briggs. His execution was set for
tomorrow for the murder of Hans
Peterson, but will now be deferred.
BRATTLEBORO. Vt, June 22.-l
Mrs Mary Rogers will not be hang
ed tomorrow Judge Wheeler will
grant an appeal tonight to the su-
preme court. and Governor Bell will
allow a further reprieve.
CHICAGO. June 22.-Following the
refusal OF States Attorney Healy to
give Johann Hoch another week to
raise funds to appeal his case, Gov
ernor Deneen today withdrew the Or
der for stay Of execution, and 1t is
likely Hoch will hang tomorrow. Tne
murderer is in state of collapse.
MOSCOW. June 22.-Today's news
from the interior shows that many
people have been butchered by Cos
sacks. while hundreds nave been
wounded in the town of Vozensensk
The workmen struck, the military
were called out and ruthlessly dis
bursed the strikers. Twenty-elght
were killed outright last night and
hundreds wounded. The strikers set
fire to the mills and fought the sol
giers savagely. Fifty thousand work
men organized in Lodz, Poland. to-
day, and are making a demonstration
against the government.
wILLIAMSToWN, Mass. June 20.
President Roosevelt today received
from Williams College the title of
Doctor of Human Letters, one which
is rarely conferred. Joheph Choate
and Elihu Root with the President,
spent the night as guests OF Presi-