Rocky Ford enterprise., 1906-03-23

Miss Grace Bairtio, Salida.
Taylor Hewitt. Lebo. Kansas.
Mrs. Lillian Hewitt. Lebo. Kansas.
Mrs. Winona Hewitt. Lebo. Kansas.
Pearl Hewitt. fifteen years old. Lebo.
Kansas.
Mrs. Katherine Hewitt and boy
baby, Lebo. Kansas.
Ed. cowley. Emporia. Kansas.
Mrs. Grace Cowley and baby. Em.
poria. Kansas.
Fred Jones. Lebo. Kansas.
Fred Limecoolcy. Denver.
Mrs. Belle Webb. Keystone. Wyo-
ming.
Ray Field. aged ten. Keystone. Wyo-
ming.
Thomas Brennan. Leadville.
In a fated car, bound for the coast.
was family party consisting OF eleven
persons. or that party but two have
survived the awful crash and the holo-
caust which followed.
In one awful moment the family OF
Taylor Hewitt Of Lebo. Kansas. was
all wiped out OF existence.
The PARTY. when It left Lebo, was
composed OF Taylor Hewitt. the father:
Pearl Hewitt. fifteen years old: Mrs.
Lillian Hewitt, wife OF the elder Hew-
lit: ". l.. Hewitt and his wife. WI.
mona: +. A. Hewitt and his wife.
Catherine. and his baby. Claud!us. four
months old: Ed. cowlcy. n son'in'iaw.
and his wife. and Fred Jones.
or this number but ". l.. Hewitt and
his brother, +. \. Hewitt. survive. II
is but little that either OF the survivors
OF the Inflated family can tell OF the
awful disaster.
MIR. Hewitt found his brother. who
was wandering about In dnzcd con.
dition. How the second Mr.. Hewitt
escaped from the wreck Is not known.
he not being able TO tell how he hap
Ipcndcd TO be on the outside OF the car.
In the first coach Of train No. >. In
which the greatest havoc was wrought,
were u large number OF foreigners.
Italians. Siays and Huns. bound for the
Pacific coast. The ''homescckcrs" rate
OF SIS to Pacific coast points had
tempted these to make the Journey.
There Is almost an absolute GER
tainty that the eSact number OF these
will never bc known and that their
idcnty will never be established. No
one knew whom these people were or
where they were going.
| To the trninmcn there were 30
many Italians or so many Slavs. repre-
scented In the majority OF Instances by
block tickets. Their few scattered
bones will MI the graves OF the nn.
known. while In the old home FAR
across the seas there Will be eyes
dimmcd by long watching for the wan.
dcrcrs doomed never to return.
| Possibly II will never he known cx-
actly how many pcrishcd In the wreck
mt Adobe. At headquarters In this
city II is still maintained the exact
number OF killed was twcnty'four. OF
1
four train employees.
According to the reports OF the two
conductors the count shows that there
were I5o passengers on No. and for
ty.oight on No. iG. or 207 on the two.
The injured passengers and those who
escaped unharmcd added to the mum.
ber of bodies taken out talllcs with the
train count. All OF the killed. except
Ing the four trainmcn. were In tho one
car. Train No. > had made no stop
nfatcr leaving Pueblo. At that place
min. persons got on and thirty got on.
| Deputy Sheriff +. T.. Baird OF Den
vcr. one OF those killed in the wreck.
was taking Archibald Whitney TO
Canon City TO serve long sentence In
the State Peni,entiary. 1t was Mt first
reported that after Mr.. Birds death.
which seems to have been instan-
I "
Whitney was burned to death while
chained to the seat and unable to
break loose.
But undershcrifr Thomas Baird.
brother of the officer who was killed.
when talked with ut Denver. said that
he had talked to the coroner who
found a pair OF handouts in the wreck
across n charrcd body. No iron was
fastened TO the handouts as would
have been the case had he been
chained to the seat.
None OF the officers" said Sheriff
Nisbet. Chain the prisoners to the
seat. have talken with Baird many
times about this very thing and he
was always opposed to the practice.
Baird always claimed that the proper
way to conduct n prisoner was to
handcuff the right arm Of the prisoner
TO the left arm Of the officer. Baird
left Denver with the prisoner. White,
in this way and they were seen in the
train was handcufred together. Baird
would be the last man to handcuff
prisoner to seat. l am confident that
he did not do this. as | have stated he
was very much opposed to doing so. In
conferences with the other deputies
held several times Baird always said
that he would not handcuff prisoner
to a seat, and I am sure that he did
! not do It in this instance"
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