The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-03-23
CREMATED
RESULT OF TERRIBLE WRECK
NEAR PUEBLO, COLORADO.
Employee forgot to deliver an order
and two passenger trains came to-
qether during a binding storm
Wrecked trains soon was ablaze and
passenger burned alive.

In a binding storm which made II
almost impossible for the trainmen to
see ahead, two passenger trains cor
lided headon at a point on the Denver
& Rio Grande road midway between
Portland and Adobe, % miles west OF
Pueblo, Friday morning. Immediately
following the collision several OF the
cars burst into flames and were on
sumed. a number of the passengers
burned to death. over 80 others
were injured, but of these none were
fatally hurt.
The wreck was accompanied with
horrors exceeded only by the Eden dis
aster. which occurred August z, 1904,
on the line of the anne railroad. The
trains were the Utah-C California ex-
press No. 3, ~westbound from Denver,
and the Colorado-New Mexico express
No. 16, e~astbound from Leadviile and
Grand Junction. They met on a sharp
curve. They were less than 200 yards
apart when the engineers discovered
that a collision was imminent.
The cause of the wreck is attributed
to the failure of an employee to de-
liver an order which changed the meet
ing place of the two trains.
While the exact number of lives lost
in the Adobe wreck will never be
known, it will undoubtedly take rank
among the great disasters in the his
tory of r~ailroading.
In other wrecks there has been
greater loss of life, but none has been
productive of greater horrors.
Conservative estimates on the loss
Of life place the number of dead at SO.
Seventeen charred, mangled and I'M
recognizable bodies lie in the Pueblo
morgue, two others are in the morgue
at Florence, several other persons are
known to be dead and possibly a score
of bodies were burned to ashes.
There was not a single entire body
recovered from the w~reckage, with the
exception of the enginemen, who, al
though horribly mangled, had not been
reached by the fierce flames which
swept through the wreckage.
Bits of charred flesh and piles of
bones were all that indicated that a
holocaust had occurred, but trained
eyes picked out the pelvic bones from
the charred masses, and from these it
was seer that, so far as the search
had progressed, no less than SO human
beings had persisted.
List of Dead.
Following is a partial LIST of those
who persisted in the wreck:
William Hollis, engineer No. 16,
Pueblo.
Walter Coslett, engineer No. 8,
Pueblo.
H. D. sudduth, fireman No. &c,
Pueblo.
Edward E. Baird, deputy sheriff,
Denver.
Archibald Whitney, prisoner, on the
way to the penitentiary at Canon City,
n charge of Baird, Denver.
Mrs. William Burnside, daughter
and daughters child, all of Kansas,
town not learned.
A. N. Barklo, Salida.
Aeneas McPharland, express mes.
senger, Denver.
Taylor Hewitt, Lebo, Kan.
Mrs. Lillian, Lebo, Kan.
Pearl Hewitt, Is years of age, Lebo
Kan.
Mrs. Catherine Hewitt and baby boy
Lebo, Kan.
Mrs. WinOna Hewitt, Lebo, Kan.
Ed Cowley, Lebo, Kan.
Fred ones, Lebo, Kan.
Mrs. Ed Cowley, Lebo, Kan.
Fred Cooley, Denver.
Patrick Murphy, Florence, Col.
Ray Field, aged 10, Keystone, Wyo
Mrs. Belle Webb, Keystone, Wyo.
Mrs. Grace Cowley's child.
Missing After the Adobe Wreck
will be the only epitaph of the Other
victims.
The police of Denver have been ask
ed by the sheriff of Fremont county tc
Locate Frank Lively, the Denver & Ric
Grande telegraph operator, at Swallow
to whom negligence Is attributed.