The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-03-23
VICTIMS CREMA1ED|
RESULT OF TERRIBLE Wreck
NEAR PUEBLO, COLORADO.
Employee forgot to deliver an order
and two passenger trains came to-
sether during a binding storm
Wrecked trains soon was abiaze and
passengers burned alive.


almost impossible for the trainmen to
see ahead, two passenger trains col
lided headon at a point on the Denver
& Rio Grande road midway between
Portland and Adobe, rs miles west Of
Pueblo. Friday morning. Immediately
following the collision several of the
cars burst into flames and were con-
sumed. a number of the passengers
burned to death. Over 30 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 same railroad. The
trains were the Utah California ex-
press No. 3, westbound from Denver,
and the Colorado-New Mexico express
No. 16, eastbound from Leadville 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 employe 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, 1T will undoubtedly take rank
among the great disasters in the his
tory of railrOading.
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 un-
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 score
of bodies were burned to ashes.
There was not single entire body
recovered from the wreckage, 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 seen that, so far as the search
had progressed, no less than 36 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. I6,
Pueblo.
Edward E. Baird, deputy sheriff,
Denver.
Archibald Whitney, prisoner. on the
way to the penitentiary at Canon City,
in 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.